What is luck? Beats me. The dictionary says luck is “success or failure apparently brought by chance rather than through one’s own actions.” If that’s the case, not too many of the people and animals in this video are truly lucky. There’s a lot of failure in the video, but we don’t even notice while watching the video. Someone or something escapes unscathed in every segment, and we focus on them entirely. What about the poor fellows who are jackknifing their trucks into ditches instead of scratching their grill on a Subaru? How about the poor dudes who are crashing their wife’s Kia into a string of obdurate jersey barriers while totally missing a nice, soft pedestrian that would barely make a dent? I saw perfectly edible animals being missed by drivers who could have eaten them if they’d have run them over. I don’t call any of that “luck.”

The definition of luck also mentions that success or failure is brought on by chance and not one’s own actions, but that’s not what I saw. All the women took the same, proactive approach to avoiding the seventeen-vehicle collision they had just caused at the crosswalk. It’s obvious that tiptoeing really fast is the answer to avoiding all calamities that turn up. And all the men seem to understand that curse words will ward off trains, planes, and automobiles that are hurtling towards you.

The only luck I spy in this video is that someone was pointing a camera at it at the perfect time.