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Fisherman Israeli Novon Mashiah had a lucky escape after teasing a
crocodile out of the water for a picture. The crocodile missed him –
landing on the boat before slipping back in the water. Mr Mashiah was
able to start his outboard motor and get away.

Faeces pile saves plunge woman
A woman in China survived a plunge from a sixth-floor balcony because she
landed on a fortuitously placed pile of excrement.

Woman's bra stops bullet
The metal underwire in a woman's bra may have saved her life, as it deflected a
bullet fired at her during a break-in at a neighbour's home in the US.

Man's life saved by heroic DVD
The DVD was badly injured, but it saved a man's life in the US by taking a bullet
for him. The man was leaving a Waffle House restaurant when he got caught up in
a gun fight.

Cow plunge couple in lucky escape
A couple from the US, Charles Everson, Jr and his wife Linda, had a lucky escape
driving back from church when they drove beneath a cliff and a cow toppled over
the edge, plunged 200ft, and smashed into the bonnet of their minivan.


'Emergency' knickers put out blaze

Jenny Marsey's size 18-20 cotton knickers helped save a family home from
burning down. Jenny Marsey's large briefs were used to put out a frying pan fire,
which started when her son and nephew were frying some bread at her house in
Hartlepool.

Man saved by barbecue sauce
Mitsutaka Uchikoshi made a wrong decision after deciding to walk home, while his
colleagues took the cable-car. But luckily for the Japanese civil servant, he
survived 24 days stranded on a mountain by sipping from a bottle of barbecue
sauce he had with him.

Couch boy escapes death crash
Dad, Roy Rabadue, saved his son Joseph's life by telling him to get off the floor
and lay down on a couch just before a a suspected drunken driver crashed into
their Michigan home.

Woman saves kitten by punching python
Brave Australian woman Ruth Butterworth broke her wrist and suffered two snake
bites but she did save her kitten from a python by punching the snake till it let go.

Volcano fall woman 'saved by tree root'
Grandmother Maureen Evason survived an 80-foot fall down a volcano after she
was "miraculously" stopped by a tree root. Her fall was only stopped when her
head jammed under a root, pinning her to the steep hillside in Tenerife.