A common thread with mass casualty events

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After hearing about yet another repeat survivor, here are the questions that arose:

1) What are the chances of a person 'experiencing' ONE of these highly publicized 'mass casualty' events?

While unlikely for any given citizen on any given day, it's certainly not impossible since we see that real people, whether hired or not, are present at these events. Fair enough.

2) What is the likelihood of a previous survivor of one of these infamous events having the misfortune of experiencing YET ANOTHER tragic crisis event in an entirely different city?

The probability has shrunk to being highly unlikely, but again not impossible I guess.

3) What are the chances that out of 10 such events, we have 10 different people legitimately experiencing at least two of these events. And sometimes we even have folks that experienced 3 events!

Ok I'm no expert in probabilities, plus I didn't stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night but ...


Let's meet our roster:

Melissa Castruita - San Bernadino AND Las Vegas
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-...005-story.html

Lauren Nowacki - Sandy Hook AND Boston
http://abcnews.go.com/US/sandy-hook-families-boston-marathon-traumatized/story?id=18969947


Samuel Granillo - Columbine AND Aurora
http://www.bbc.com/news/av/18947575/...rora-shootings

Chris Pawley - Manchester AND Barcelona
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-a7900186.html

Kristin Crouch - Nice AND Dallas
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...icle-1.2712656

Matthew - 9/11 AND Bataclan
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...-massacre.html

Patrick Pelloux - Charlie Hebdo survivor AND Paris 1st responder
http://time.com/4113067/paris-attack...-paris-attack/

Liviu Librescu - Holocaust AND Virginia Tech
http://articles.latimes.com/2007/apr...on/na-heroes18

Mason Wells - Boston Bombing AND Brussels AND in France
http://nypost.com/2016/03/25/the-ame...ays-hes-lucky/

Julia Monaco - Barcelona AND London Bridge AND Paris
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...-a7899386.html


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And here are some other unfortunate stories of folks that evidently perished shortly after experiencing a mass casualty event:

Tony Walters (survivor of London '05, committed suicide due to stress of Manchester)
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/worl...icle-1.3204836

Jahqui Sevilla (Orlando Pulse, killed in a car crash)
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...icle-1.3206968

Chris Brodman (Orlando Pulse, died at a party)
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/...104-story.html

Anyways, all interesting stuff

TFS