<story><title>&apos;I was completely inside&apos;: Lobster diver swallowed by humpback whale</title><url>https://capecodtimes.com/story/news/2021/06/11/humpback-whale-catches-michael-packard-lobster-driver-mouth-proviencetown-cape-cod/7653838002/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>iron_ball</author><text>Teela Brown from Ringworld. She was the result of a selective breeding program intended to create the luckiest human alive... but it turned out the _real_ lucky ones were all the &amp;quot;failures&amp;quot; who did _not_ get recruited for an impossibly dangerous mission.</text></item><item><author>aspaceman</author><text>I’ve liked the interpretation that high luck isn’t necessarily good. It just means highly improbable events happen to you more likely...</text></item><item><author>ukyrgf</author><text>He is saying his &amp;quot;luck&amp;quot; skill is maxed out, so he is +10 while others could be having a real -10 of it.</text></item><item><author>dylan604</author><text>He&amp;#x27;s still alive, so it sounds like he&amp;#x27;s got a little credit left on that account. The big creditor in the sky hasn&amp;#x27;t declined his charges yet.&lt;p&gt;Remember this guy&amp;#x27;s name. If you ever meet this guy and he asks if you want to go on a trip with him, I would advise politely declining. You should however, offer to buy him a beer to have him tell his stories.</text></item><item><author>ballarak</author><text>&amp;quot;Ten years ago, while traveling in Costa Rica, he was a passenger in a small plane that crashed in the jungle, killing the pilot, co-pilot and a passenger. Packard sustained multiple serious injuries to his abdomen and upper body. The rescuers that found the remaining five passengers after two nights in the jungle said they wouldn’t have survived another night.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;This guy&amp;#x27;s luck is clearly maxed out. What a crazy pair of stories.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>icebraining</author><text>That mirrors Orwell&amp;#x27;s thought when he survived a shot in the neck during the Spanish civil war - everyone kept telling him how lucky he was, but he couldn&amp;#x27;t help but think it would have been luckier to not have been shot at all!</text></comment>
<story><title>&apos;I was completely inside&apos;: Lobster diver swallowed by humpback whale</title><url>https://capecodtimes.com/story/news/2021/06/11/humpback-whale-catches-michael-packard-lobster-driver-mouth-proviencetown-cape-cod/7653838002/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>iron_ball</author><text>Teela Brown from Ringworld. She was the result of a selective breeding program intended to create the luckiest human alive... but it turned out the _real_ lucky ones were all the &amp;quot;failures&amp;quot; who did _not_ get recruited for an impossibly dangerous mission.</text></item><item><author>aspaceman</author><text>I’ve liked the interpretation that high luck isn’t necessarily good. It just means highly improbable events happen to you more likely...</text></item><item><author>ukyrgf</author><text>He is saying his &amp;quot;luck&amp;quot; skill is maxed out, so he is +10 while others could be having a real -10 of it.</text></item><item><author>dylan604</author><text>He&amp;#x27;s still alive, so it sounds like he&amp;#x27;s got a little credit left on that account. The big creditor in the sky hasn&amp;#x27;t declined his charges yet.&lt;p&gt;Remember this guy&amp;#x27;s name. If you ever meet this guy and he asks if you want to go on a trip with him, I would advise politely declining. You should however, offer to buy him a beer to have him tell his stories.</text></item><item><author>ballarak</author><text>&amp;quot;Ten years ago, while traveling in Costa Rica, he was a passenger in a small plane that crashed in the jungle, killing the pilot, co-pilot and a passenger. Packard sustained multiple serious injuries to his abdomen and upper body. The rescuers that found the remaining five passengers after two nights in the jungle said they wouldn’t have survived another night.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;This guy&amp;#x27;s luck is clearly maxed out. What a crazy pair of stories.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Zanni</author><text>As I recall (spoiler), that was speculation by one of the other characters after they crashed on Ringworld, later reversed because Teela met the love of her life &lt;i&gt;due to the crash&lt;/i&gt;. The real take away was that Teela&amp;#x27;s luck was in no way transferable to the rest of the party; it only looked out for Teela.</text></comment>