History TemptingFate / RealLife

* Wiki/TheOtherWiki once gave "The weather in London" as an inappropriate title for a Wikipedia page and used it as an example of a Administrivia/RedLink. Naturally, people created the page and made it a redirect to London#Climate, leading to a very long deletion war before it was finally abandoned and the redirect kept.

* According to Wiki/TheOtherWiki, the town of Frostproof, Florida so named itself as "a marketing ploy to convince potential landowners that the town has never had, and never would have, a frost that could destroy the large citrus-driven economy". However, only a couple of years later, a frost killed most of the citrus in Frostproof.

* According to Wiki/TheOtherWiki, leading up to the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Nazaire_Raid St. Nazaire Raid]] during World War 2, one of the German commanders, when asked what would they do if the base was subject to an attack by British Commandos, replied that "an attack on the base would be hazardous and highly improbable."

* According to Wiki/TheOtherWiki, the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill Deepwater Horizon explosion]] occurred when BP executives were on board celebrating the project's safety record.

* Kanye west went on to drink champs and after going on a huge antisemitic rant, said "The thing about Adidas... I can literally say antisemitic shit and they can't drop me... now what?" A few days after this interview came out, Adidas came out with a statement and said that they were dropping their partnership with Kanye West due to his comments

* Donald Trump supporter Jenna Ryan participated in the January 6th US Capitol riot. She later tweeted "Definitely not going to jail. Sorry I have blonde hair white skin a great job a great future and I'm not going to jail." In November 2021, she was charged with misdemeanor and was sentenced to 60 days in prison.

* Lee Harvey Oswald's last words were, "Aww, there ain't going to be anybody shooting at me. You're just being melodramatic."

* When the co-CEO of Blackberry [[https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2015/05/26/blackberry-iphone-book/amp/ responded]] to the debut of the iPhone in 2007, "It’s OK. We'll be fine." He lied.

* When the CEO of Blackberry [[https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/parmyolson/2015/05/26/blackberry-iphone-book/amp/ responded]] to the debut of the iPhone in 2007, "We'll be fine." He lied.

* June 8, 1989 -- Pittsburgh Pirates at the Philadelphia Phillies. The Pirates explode for 10 runs in the top of the first inning, a lead which never before in major league history had been blown and prompting Pirates radio announcer Jim Rooker to quip on air, "If we don't win, I'll walk back to Pittsburgh." The Phillies chipped and chipped throughout the rest of the game and eventually won 15-11. Rooker kept his off-the-cuff promise after the season, holding a charity walk starting from downtown Philadelphia and going all 300-plus miles across Pennsylvania back to Pittsburgh.

* In 2007, Fred Phelps released a video where he predicts that Billy Graham, who was then 88, would soon die, and he promises that when that happens, he and the rest of Westboro Baptist Church would picket Graham's funeral. Not only did Graham not die for many years to come, but Phelps ended up dying ''before'' him.

* The ''Britannic'' was designed with much better safety features and when it when it became a hospital ship in WWI, it was said it would take more than one torpedo to sink her. It struck a single naval mine and met the same fate as its sister, though this time it wasn't the engineers who built the thing that were to blame, but rather a single crewman who failed to activate the watertight door he was supposed to man.

* Justin Wong opened up a channel where he streams his own online matches of ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIII Third Strike'', usually using Chun-li. During one encounter, he met a Ken player that seemed to be holding quite well and goading his Chun-li to pull her super art, the same super art that got parried by Daigo Umehara during the iconic EVO #37 Moment. Justin responds with how that player is no Daigo, thus can't do a Daigo maneuver and pulls the super. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyIsGEKo--E To his shock, said player replicated the Daigo parry down to the tee and knocked his Chun-li out.]] Justin felt like having flashbacks of the EVO #37 moment that way.

* In April 2010, in response to Iranian cleric Hajotoselam Kazem Swdighi's proclamation that women dressing immodestly [[NonSequitur causes earthquakes]], Jen [=McCreight=], a student at Purdue set up an event called "Boobquake", encouraging women to dress less modestly than usual, to prove that it wouldn't cause an earthquake. The day of the event there was an earthquake.

-->''"'At last I will be able to travel and, above all, I will be able to sleep calm. The sinking of the'' América ''was terrible!... Nightmares keep tormenting me. Even in the most quiet trips, I wake up in the middle of the night with terrible nightmares... I have even gotten to the point where I find myself standing in the deck with my lifebelt on...'"''

-->''"You can't imagine, Enrique,'' [Artagaveytia's nephew] ''the security the telegraph gives. When the'' América ''sank, right in front of Montevideo, nobody answered to the lights asking for help. The ones that saw us from the ship Villa del Salto, did not answer to our light signals. Now, with a telephone on board, that won't happen again. We can communicate instantly with the whole world."'' -- Nobody answered the ''Titanic'''s light signals, and the one ship that answered the telegraph -- the RMS ''Carpathia'', who dashed to the stricken ''Titanic'' immediately -- was so far away that even she arrived two hours late.

-->'''Sam Seaborn''': You wrote a concession?\\

* On the night before the 1974 ''Series/EurovisionSongContest'', the male half of Dutch duo Mouth & [=McNeal=] boasted that he was going to take the music world by storm. The people he boasted to were Anni-frid Lyngstad and Agnetha Faltskog from Music/{{ABBA}}, who not only won that year's Eurovision, but went on to be one of the most successful music acts of the Seventies. Mouth & [=McNeal=] by contrast quickly faded into obscurity like most Eurovision acts.

* Any fan stupid enough to enter a professional wrestling ring is just begging for a beatdown. As Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin says in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Zo1kwAyFB0 professional wrestlers]] expect the fans to insult and jeer them, especially when they're heels, but fans who jump the security barrier and attack the wrestlers will get their asses kicked. In the anecdote Austin mentions, he'd just finished a match with Wrestling/TripleH when a fan charged in and attacked him, only for Triple H to suplex and start beating the fan. Referee Mike Chioda lent a hand too, and between them they subdued the fan until security arrived.

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* When Harold Camping of ''Family Radio'' [[CaughtUpInTheRapture predicted the end of the world]] which never came to be, he was asked in an interview if he'd step down as C.E.O. and dissolve the company. His response was that he was not the C.E.O, but that God was and that "He had a thousand ways of getting Camping out of ''Family Radio'' if He wanted." Quite literally two weeks later Camping was hospitalized by a stroke and, while he survived it, that pretty much put an end to his rapture predictions.

* In 2018, the Trump administration disbanded a team meant to coordinate and respond to a possible pandemic. Two years later, the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic struck. Likewise, Trump claimed in February 2020 that the pandemic wouldn't last beyond April...more than 18 months have passed and it's still ongoing.