Post by Jadranka on Sept 23, 2003 11:22:31 GMT
Ovo je clanak iz Engleskog casopisa ForteanTimes (November2003)
FRANE SELAK, a music teacher from Petrinja in Central Croatia, has led a charmed life. In 1962 he was on a train travelling from Sarajevo to Dubrovnik when it jumped the rails and plunged into the icy Neretva River. Seventeen people drowned and he barely made it to the riverbank suffering from hypothermia, shock, bruises and a broken arm. A year later, he was thrown out of a DC-8 aeroplane between Zagreb and Rijeka when a door flew open. This time 19 people died, but Me Selak landed in a haystack, where he was found by rescuers. He woke up three days later in hospital. In 1966, a bus he was travelling on in Split lurched into a river, killing four. He swam to safety with cuts and bruises.
Accident number four was in 1970 when his car caught fire as he drove along a motorway and managed to get out with seconds to spare before the fuel tank exploded. His friends began to call him Lucky and he said; ”You could look at it two ways. I was either the world’s unluckiest man or the luckiest. I preferred to believe the latter.”
Three years later, he lost most of his hair when a faulty fuel pump spewed petrol over the hot engine of his Wartburg car and blew flames through the air vents. In 1995 he was knocked down by a bus in Zagreb, but sustained only minor injuries. The following year, he was driving in the mountains when he turned a corner to see a UN truck coming straight for him. His Skoda car crashed through the barrier and over the edge, but he managed to jump out at the last moment and land in a tree to see his car explode 300ft (90m) below him.
In June this year, he won the jackpot of £600,000 with his first lottery ticket in 40 years. Mr. Selak, 74, has had four failed marriages and, after his lottery win, commented: “I suppose my marriages were disasters too!” He is now buying a house, a car and a speedboat, and is planning to marry his girlfriend, who is 20 years his junior.
BAS KAD MISLIS DA JE SVE GOTOVO…..
JEDINO NISAM SIGURNO DA LI MU JE PAMETNO KUPITI JAHTU, MOZDA BI MU BILO BOLJE INVESTIRATI U JEFTINI CAMAC NA VESLA.
JADRANKA
FRANE SELAK, a music teacher from Petrinja in Central Croatia, has led a charmed life. In 1962 he was on a train travelling from Sarajevo to Dubrovnik when it jumped the rails and plunged into the icy Neretva River. Seventeen people drowned and he barely made it to the riverbank suffering from hypothermia, shock, bruises and a broken arm. A year later, he was thrown out of a DC-8 aeroplane between Zagreb and Rijeka when a door flew open. This time 19 people died, but Me Selak landed in a haystack, where he was found by rescuers. He woke up three days later in hospital. In 1966, a bus he was travelling on in Split lurched into a river, killing four. He swam to safety with cuts and bruises.
Accident number four was in 1970 when his car caught fire as he drove along a motorway and managed to get out with seconds to spare before the fuel tank exploded. His friends began to call him Lucky and he said; ”You could look at it two ways. I was either the world’s unluckiest man or the luckiest. I preferred to believe the latter.”
Three years later, he lost most of his hair when a faulty fuel pump spewed petrol over the hot engine of his Wartburg car and blew flames through the air vents. In 1995 he was knocked down by a bus in Zagreb, but sustained only minor injuries. The following year, he was driving in the mountains when he turned a corner to see a UN truck coming straight for him. His Skoda car crashed through the barrier and over the edge, but he managed to jump out at the last moment and land in a tree to see his car explode 300ft (90m) below him.
In June this year, he won the jackpot of £600,000 with his first lottery ticket in 40 years. Mr. Selak, 74, has had four failed marriages and, after his lottery win, commented: “I suppose my marriages were disasters too!” He is now buying a house, a car and a speedboat, and is planning to marry his girlfriend, who is 20 years his junior.
BAS KAD MISLIS DA JE SVE GOTOVO…..
JEDINO NISAM SIGURNO DA LI MU JE PAMETNO KUPITI JAHTU, MOZDA BI MU BILO BOLJE INVESTIRATI U JEFTINI CAMAC NA VESLA.
JADRANKA