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  • Woman who missed Flight 447 is killed in car crash - Times Online

    Probability in action. To the person who poses the question, "why is this even in the news?": the simplest and most honest answer is that many people are uneducated and foolish enough to think it's appropriate in this century to wax on about "fate",... more

    Reviewed by Silveus Jun 14, 12:20am ( 102 reviews ) • timesonline.co.uk

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  • Rated by pixtrose52 on Jun 19, 7:09pm

    I would say her number was up.

  • Rated by ClareAston on Jun 16, 1:02pm

    I guess when its your time...? I remember reading a story about the Zeebrugge ferry disater. Someone who missed that, ended up getting killed on a motorbike not long after. Sad story

  • Reviewed by cyber9 on Jun 15, 9:11am

    Sounds like the movie Final Destination.

  • Rated by mattj7 on Jun 14, 12:59am

    aint that a bitch

  • Rated by Silveus on Jun 14, 12:20am

    Probability in action. To the person who poses the question, "why is this even in the news?": the simplest and most honest answer is that many people are uneducated and foolish enough to think it's appropriate in this century to wax on about "fate", "destiny", and gods. This primitive superstition will then lead to the article being stumbled upon and emailed to friends, which increases ad revenue for the corporate news websites hosting their own version of the article. Inadvertantly, however, this article highlights something else entirely. Media will focus an inordinate amount of attention on spectacular, rare occurances such as train wrecks and plane crashes. These events, while extremely uncommon, produce "newsworthy" amounts of destruction and death in a single incident. And yet, when you look at things from a more long term, statistical point of view, a vastly different picture is painted: it is not the plane, nor the train, nor the ship that truly ends lives. It is the car. However, cars are such a familiar and much beloved item of modernity that we accept the massive cumulative death toll they cause as an unfortunate but unavoidable side effect of independence and convenience. We accept this because auto-related fatalities only kill a small amount of people in each single incident, and these incidents happen so frequently that, paradoxically, they become trivial. As a result, they lack the qualities of being newsworthy. We accept this because people love their cars, believe them to be a near-mythical yet material expression of some aspect of their psychological makeup, and will apparently put their lives at great risk every day - and waste incredible amounts of both financial and environmental resources - just to operate them. Destiny did not cause this to happen. Cars just end lives more frequently, and the circumstances of a more traditional newsworthy fallacy brought this one of many auto-related deaths to the forefront. It's tragically mundane. It's probability in action.

  • Reviewed by theboognish on Jun 13, 5:32pm

    this is pretty crazy, but the comments on the site are dumb.

  • Rated by magnitude7 on Jun 13, 1:49pm

    Movie "Final Destination" for real!

  • Reviewed by Sam93 on Jun 13, 1:28pm

    I too thought of Final Destination. :/