27 Really Unlucky ‘Wrong Place, Wrong Time’ Situations

‘A flowerpot came down off a balcony and smashed me on the shoulder’
27 Really Unlucky ‘Wrong Place, Wrong Time’ Situations

We all want to experience beautiful, serendipitous moments, but not everyone can be so lucky. In fact, some people have the misfortune of ending up on the other end of the spectrum — becoming cautionary tales for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. 

Case in point: One Redditor was at work when he realized he’d forgotten his headphones in his car. He decided to run and grab them so he could jam out while completing his mundane tasks. As he was sitting in his car and sifting through the middle console, the CEO made a surprise visit. Even though the Redditor had gotten to work on time, it looked like he was two hours late. A few weeks later, he received a pink slip for his alleged tardiness.

Other Redditors have shared their own unlucky situations of awful timing, including accidental muggings, perilous food fights and a shitty case of mistaken identity.

dammitjason 9y ago I was just about to head home after a night out in London, so I was casually standing at the coat check waiting my turn. However, I happened to be standing at the coat check when a guy was being thrown out of the club. This guy happened to be a little crazy, because as he went past me, he grabbed my shoulder, went to headbutt me, and at the same time bit a chunk out of my lip. | ended up needing plastic surgery on my lip, and about 5 years on I still have no
9y ago Edited 9y ago | got hit by a bullet once right on my left teres minor, I didn't hear any gunshots at all. It was a minor wound, it could have been worse. There is an outdoor shooting range not far from where | was at the time and they were holding some plate toss-shooting event and someone must've shot on the air then it landed in me. TL;DR - I got shot cuz physics. 6.3K ...
Vaginabond 9y ago Edited 9y ago This happened to a coworkers son, he was outside smoking a cigarrette and apparently there was a police chase going on that he didn't know about. The police dog jumped over the fence into his backyard and attacked him, really messed up his arm from what i understand. The cops end up throwing him in the police car, after realizing that they had the wrong guy they let him go and literally told him Well maybe you should have stayed inside. He's currently going through a lawsuit with them and is probably going to get
9y ago During my freshman year of high school, there was a huge food fight and a ton of actual fighting that happened. Just to give you an idea of how bad it was, a newspaper for the Southern California area wrote an article calling them riots and said they were over the election. Neither of those were true, but we had a lot of police on campus, and they shortened our passing period to about 2 minutes. During the big food fight, my ass was just trying to get away from everything. That is, until some asshole decided
jarkyttaa 9y ago A few years ago my girlfriend and I had just moved into a new apartment in a really nice area. About 2 months later, we had a brick thrown through a back window, but assumed it was some neighborhood kid being a douche. A few days after that we had 6 guys with guns break into the unit while we were there, pistol whipped us, and took most of our electronics/etc. They robbed the place because the previous tenant was a drug dealer who apparently owed them a bunch of money and they didn't get the memo
Altcauseisuckatlent 9y ago I have a friend who was an American businessman who was at a meeting in northern Beijing in 1989. What else happened in northern Beijing in 1989? The Tiannamen Square protests. My friend managed to get on literally the last flight out of Beijing before martial law was declared. - 7.2K ...
000-000-000yea 9y ago | walked out to my car at work to grab some headphones so | can get some work done with my jam on. While | was in the car the CEO shows up on a surprise visit. She made some remark about it being nice for me to show up two hours late. | Should have asked her that it was nice for her to show up two hours late... a few weeks laters | got the pink slip. - 36 ...
xWilesx 9y ago In grade 2, I was getting up to sharpen my pencil during art and the class loud with all the kids talking and working. As soon as I was up, my teacher said Damnit Wiles, I'm tired of your shenanigans, go sit outside until recess! I didn't know what to do so I went outside. As soon as the door closed, it popped open again, another kid about 2 rows behind me was coming to sit outside. Turns out, we both had the same name and he was the one getting yelled at. Stayed friends with him
JusticeRings 9y ago . Edited 9y ago Was standing around in high school looking at my class schedule because | was a lost brand new freshman. Couple of senior guys decide to do a mock fight to freak out the underclassmen. One does a huge overstated punch in my direction and his friend ducks at just the right time for it to lay me out. - 106 ...
DearYouu 9y ago e Edited 9y ago When | was 16, I was standing up front at a punk rock show, as | always did, singing along to my friends band. At the climax of the song, a 400lb man jumps off the stage and lands on 85lb girl (me) with both feet, shatters my vertebrae and left me a quadriplegic for 6 months.
Kwangone 9y ago Locked in a jailcell with over 30 strangers in a town I wasn't from (large concert, many arrests. I was drinking underage) It turns out I am the spitting image of one of the local drug dealer/gangster assholes. Everyone in their was either talking to me like I was a rockstar, or wanted to kill me. I tried to explain that I wasn't that guy and everyone just thought I was trying to hide my identity. The story is much more bizarre than that, but who the hell is even going to read this comment? - 112
Chicken-Mcfuckit 9y ago Once | went to my dad's house after going out with my mates. Wrong choice, I didn't wake up to an alarm. I woke up to him and his girlfriend fucking on the couch. | couldn't leave my room for so long. - 539 ...
cholula_is_good 9y ago What was almost the greatest moment of my soccer career. 90th minute, my team down 1, I let a shot go from well outside the box. Made great connection with the ball, more than enough pace to beat the keeper. Thr ball sails past the outstretched keeper... and over the bar striking a 4 year old girl in the head. She was just eating ice cream looking at the grass. - 376 ...
pumper911 9y ago On a packed train around 1AM where a good amount of people were drunk. Sat in front of someone who projectile vomited all over my seat and got some in my hair 352 ...
nomorerope 9y ago On highway driving to old Shea stadium. Car accident because stupid kids tried to cross highway. Somehow end up stuck right in front of a bleeding dead body for a half hour+. Other kids mad their friend is dead and slowing traffic on other side of highway as they are hitting cars approaching us. Cops and paramedics finally come. Cop directing us to back up... back up right into cop car. - 275 ...
9y ago | once got hospitalised because a flowerpot came down off a balcony and smashed me on the shoulder. It was an empty one so I guess it could've been heavier, but I briefly passed out from th impact and the pain Doctors said it was miraculous that it wasnt my head (fell from forth floor, couldve been my skull, etc) but you know what I think would've been more lucky? Not being hit by a fucking flowerpot at all - 260 ...
9y ago I used to play baseball back in high school. When it would rain we would practice on the basketball courts in our gym. My buddy and I are playing catch and at this point we're at opposite ends of the court throwing fairly hard. As I release a throw, I notice the door behind my friend opening. As it opens outward it pushes his arm forward causing him to narrowly miss the ball. On the other side of that door was someone walking to the girls locker room holding a cake and balloons, as it was her
underwriter 9y ago Moved into college in lower Manhattan on September 10th, 2001. 521
Crescent-Argonian 9y ago Ak-47 pointed at my head during my first day on the job. Posted this a while ago on r/talesfromtechsupport Started working on a PC repair store here in Mexico, dangerous city in the south, Someone comes and wants their PC cleaned and a new os, I decided to clean it first, then work on cleaning the HDD. We got raided by a few of men with AKs, I trow myself to the floor, rifle pointed at my head, they take the PC and client away, guy is found dead hours later, Cartel member My personal theory is
9y ago I was pissing outside of a house party. I look over mid piss to take in my surroundings. My vision was blurry so it was hard to see at first but a light was on in one of the rooms in the house. I move closer and after about a minute of watching through the window my vision focused and I saw two guys getting it on HARDCORE. And by hardcore | mean borderline BDSM shit. I walked back to the party and tried to forget what I saw but I can never seem to forget. 567
proffelytizer 1 9y ago Cops threw me and a friend in cuffs when we were walking home from lunch. Someone nearby had reported an attempted break-in so of course we were the most likely culprits T_T 1.3K ...
snazzysportstacker 9y ago I was walking home with my brother and my friend going the same way, and these guys driving by thought my little brother was some kid my friend and I were targeting, so they stopped us, called the police on us, and contacted our parents, all without asking us if this kid was my brother that we were not harassing. Thanks to that intrusive couple, I no longer have a perfect record, and I'm only 17. - 12 ...
Eclectophile 9y ago Guy got mugged in front of my house in Seattle. Used to be a rough neighborhood. I was bent down behind a trash can a few feet away, pulling weeds. Heard some scuffling and a struggle, stood up because I was curious and saw an older guy on the ground with a younger guy kneeling on his back, digging his wallet out of his pocket. I happened to be holding my steel shovel. Mugger looked up, saw me looming over them with a huge shovel, yelped, sprang backwards, crashed into a telephone pole, bounced forward from it
-cDJ- ОР . 9y ago e Edited 9y ago There was a serial bathroom floor pooper at my school (they seem to be in many) and I became a suspect for being in the bathrooms at the same time as the poop was reported. 1.4K ...
Yoinkie2013 9y ago First quarter of college I went to a class for an entire week that wasn't a class I signed up for. When I wasn't on the class list, my professor just assumed I might have been a late entry. I even bought the textbook, did a few homework assignments and had a quiz before realizing my mistake. And | didn't even really realize my mistake, the professor had to go and double check his class list before finding the error of my ways. And that's the story or how my $130 textbook became a $30 textbook in
GandolfShitler 9y ago Last weekend I was doing a bit of late night driving. Was talking to a friend on the phone. She wanted to meet up at a McDonald's that I had never been to before. So I said sure. Once | got there I walked up to the door. It was closed. I was at the wrong McDonald's at the wrong time. 1.9K ...
-DisobedientAvocado- 9y ago My school takes kids on trips around the world for march break. Guess who happened to be in Japan for that big earthquake/tsunami a few years back? A group of Canadian teenaged and teachers. One teacher that was there (all the students are probably in college now) tells of when they were in a bus when the quake hit, and the driver was swerving left and right a little, which they thought was a joke. They were laughing until they noticed the skyscrapers flailing about. Apparently the Japanese were running up to them in the street mid-quake

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