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The World'southward Greatest Video Is This Once-'Clinically Dead' Human Winning $250,000 On A Scratchie

Truly the luckiest unlucky man to ever walk the Earth.

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In 1999, a lot was happening in the world. We were merely on the brink of the new millennium,SpongeBob SquarePantsaired for the get-go time always, and Aussie truck driver Neb Morgan was celebrating his ane year anniversary of surviving existence declared clinically expressionless.

Now before you ask, "who the hell is Neb Morgan?!", delight put some respect on Australia'due south luckiest unlucky man. For those who don't know, Bill Morgan was the Aussie icon who won $250,000 on a scratchie on live Telly, while reenacting his previous scratch-card win of a car for a news segment.

According to news reports at the fourth dimension, before 37-yr-old Neb won his automobile and his quarter of a 1000000 dollars, he was actually in a major truck blow that resulted in him having a middle attack.

Continuing the cord of truly unfortunate events, Bill had an extreme allergic reaction to the medication he was given, which resulted in him clinically dying later on his heart stopped for 14 minutes. From here, Bill was put into a blackout where doctors recommended his life support be switched off.

Lucky for Pecker, his family decided to go along the truck driver alive and he awoke from his coma just 12 days afterwards without any permanent damage. From here, his luck started looking upwards. While living in a caravan, a year after his blackout, Bill bought a scratchie and instantly won a car that was worth well-nigh $17,000 (which is approximately $26,000 at present with inflation).

Naturally, Neb'due south story of absolute-misfortune-turned-slap-up-luck caught the attention of a local news station in Melbourne, who asked Bill to reenact his win for their feel-good segment on him.

To practice this, Beak bought another ticket and scratched away to reveal that he had simply won again, but this time information technology was a whopping $250,000 ($385,000 in today'south dollars).

Catching his reaction on photographic camera, the truck driver reacted like any nonchalant Aussie gars would — by calmly maxim "I just won $250,000. I'grand not joking" with the most emotionless face I take always seen.

Thankfully, when the win set in, Bill started to show some real emotion, peculiarly once he called his fiancé to share the news.


Despite happening over two decades years agone, @AnalyseLevi decided to share the iconic video to Twitter overnight, where it chop-chop went viral. But across people not being able to believe Bill Morgan'due south impressive luck, virtually simply couldn't fathom that the truckie was only 37 in the footage.

Meanwhile, others noted that Neb Morgan was simply lucky that the camera coiffure asked him to re-enact the scratchie win and not the whole, you lot know, beingness in a coma for two weeks thing.

Anyway, if you demand me I'll be waiting for my own Nib Morgan moment of my own — minus all the comas and dying, of course.