I'm Laura Norton, and this is one strange thing, the show where we search the nation's news archives for stories that can't quite be explained.

Strangers, we've all had bad days, or bad weeks, or bad months.

From overflowing toilets to stolen cars, misfortune comes in a wide spectrum.

We ask each other if Mercury is in retrograde or if someone somewhere has upset a Scorpio.

If we are superstitious, maybe we grab a couple of crystals, or study the sky, or burn some sage.

Humbling though it may be, most of the time,

a bad day is just inconvenient.

We lose something right when we need it most,

or we break something at the peak of our stress,

and then life goes on.

But for others, bad luck can threaten their lives.

This was the case in 2018, for a man you might know, one, Post Malone.

If you don't know who Post Malone is, well, we'll just call him a rapper, but we encourage you to pause this podcast. Do a Google Image search and come back to us when you're ready.

Done? Okay, you've got the idea.

According to the Music and Culture magazine, Fader, Post Malone's bad luck started in August

of 2018 with the emergency landing of his private jet.

And you may be thinking to yourself, oh boo-hoo, not the private jet. But even for those of us

more custom to the back of a Spirit Airlines flight, this emergency landing would have been terrifying.

During takeoff, two of the jet' tires blew out.

And then, two weeks later, Post Malone was in a car accident that totaled his Rolls-Royce.

Yet, somehow, he remained uninjured.

But it didn't stop there.

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