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by bryanrasmussen 1832 days ago
maybe he sucks up all the available luck in the area, a kind of luck vampire, and everyone else dies because out of luck!

I'd write the story but evidently we are already background in it.

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The whale seems to have survived. So there's that.
Yeah, that's addressed in the fine article as well:

  > For years, he was an abalone diver on the West Coast in
  > an area with great white sharks that have a history of
  > attacking divers; he lost some friends to the predators.
Not that everything needs to be made into a film, but i could see maybe a B movie with the title "The Luck Vampire" be mildly (or wildly) successful.

And the actor can only be one person :)

It's called Intacto actually https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intacto
In a large group of people, by chance alone we should expect some to be lucky multiple times.

I guess that's life in a quasi-infinite expanse.

There’s already a Donald Duck story like that. Some guy comes to Duckville, and Gladstone Gander is completely terrified of him because.