28 Astonishing Moments That Defied All Odds—Including One Shocking Encounter with Jimmy!
In Eastern North Carolina I overheard a table speaking German when I was waiting tables in college. I was learning to speak German at the time and decided to just say hello or something to them.
Come to find out they were living in the US at the time, and after fast-forwarding 10 years we’ve got several European trips together and they’re some of my closest friends!
If I hadn’t just said a simple hello in a language I was learning, I never would have had most of my international experiences and connections.
Years ago I matched with someone on a dating site and we both discovered that we live in exactly the same suburb. That isn’t the improbable statistic, what really blew our minds was when talking about our pets.
We discovered that we both have a cat called Ramone, that we PREVIOUSLY named Ramona before realising weeks later after getting them that they were not infact female. Wild coincidence 😆.
On Reddit, someone found a camera memory card in Australia and posted some photos from it to help find the owner. The photos were of my co-worker in Los Angeles.
My stolen bike was recovered by police. The thief was arrested and jailed. It was a miracle of a series of fortunate events.
Edit:
Since this comment has gained some traction, I decided to give you guys the story.
In 2009, I recently bought a pretty distinctive bike (2008 Bianchi San Jose) and decided to ride it to work. I worked in Downtown Brooklyn in an area called Metro Tech, which is a series of 20ish story buildings and a public common area run by JP Morgan Chase. I locked my bike at a rack between the buildings at 9am. When I went to leave at 5pm, the bike was gone. After collecting myself from the shock of my new bike being stolen, I went over to the security office for Metrotech. The person manning the front desk heard my story, but pretty much threw his hands up and said there’s no hope. However, while we were chatting a guy in a suit walks into the area and says he runs security for the entire complex. He asks me a few questions and says he’s going to review some of the security footage, but he can’t promise anything. I thank him and go home. I make some posts to some NYC bicycle forums that night with pics. I was thoroughly depressed.
The next day, I take a little break from work and walk over to the police precinct and file a report about 10am. Of course, this being NYC, the lady taking the statement treated me like I was wasting her time. This kind of stuff happens all the time. However, around 3pm I was sitting at my desk at work and get a call from a guy with a thick Brooklyn accent.
*Is this u/Silent_Beautiful_738?
Yes
*Do you own a Bianchi Bicycle?
Yes
*Does it have a sticker on it? What does it say?
Yes? Robert’s Bicycles Bayside Queens.
*We have your bike. Meet me at the precinct.
Get to the precinct. I identify the bike. They say the guy who stole it is being booked, and they tell me the story.
NYC has these “undercover” cops that kind of roam around in unmarked cars and surprise people. Well these cops just happened to be driving around Park Slope area, which is kind of a wealthier area, and see this guy with a brand new bike and a piece of notebook paper taped to the front saying $200. They stop and jump out. They start grilling him. “Is that your bike? Where did you get it? Etc” The guy was obviously lying through his teeth, but they couldn’t do anything about it. There was no proof. They get back in the car and drive off. As they’re driving, they get a radio call to head to Metrotech Security.
When they get there, the head of security says he has footage of a guy stealing a bicycle. The image of the man and the bike are clear. The bike has distinctive stripes on it, so there’s no way to mistake it. The cops view the footage and holy s**t, it’s the f*****g guy they just stopped. They get the footage and haul a*s back to the corner where they saw the guy and what-do you-know, he’s still there. The arrest him. Confiscate the bike. Since they have the video, the police report, and personally witnessed him trying to sell it, I got my bike back immediately and never had to go to court.
What are the odds that the head of security walks into that security office, finds the footage, and the same exact cops who see the thief are called to review the footage? Why did the thief stay at the same corner? Why didn’t he remove the sticker? F*****g miraculous.
After all this, I got some messages from the bicycle forums from people in Park Slope who saw the guy trying to sell the bike. Apparently, he was getting a lot of s**t from passersby because he was obviously hocking stolen goods.
Not me, but a friend married a guy named Joe. After they got married she moved into his house that he already owned. Years later they divorce and she moves out. Then a few years after that she meets and marries another guy named Joe who owns a house on that exact same street!
They’re still happily married living in Joe #2’s house a few blocks away from Joe #1’s house. We joke that her first marriage was off by only a few house numbers.
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