Here's that magic number again https://abcnews.go.com/US/injured-explosion-illegal-fireworks-south-la-police/story?id=78599084 Apologies for the ABC link.
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You're right, but the magic 17 been popping up more & more often of late. If I were a numbers man [and I'm not], I'd ask what the chances of 17 coming up in a news headline would be. In my opinion, for what it's worth, it's got to be 1 in 2000 has it not? Is that 0.0005%? I'm not reading 2000 headlines a week but I'm seeing the 17 once a week right now.
To what end?
Well, every news story that has the number 17 anywhere on the internet in it gets posted here, so if you’re here at least once a week, then that might explain it.
I wonder as a group experiment if say each of us would pick a number from 1-26 just to narrow it down and then for 1 week make it your mission to find that number in a current news story.
Like to see what develops.
I would like to think that white hats have some media people on the inside who will post 17 , even if they have to contrive it somehow. Like in this story how 17 includes police officers but they would figure out a way to make it 17 regardless
Why 26? I was thinking there's a lot more than just 26 numbers floating around the headlines. You are right though. It would be great to have a database to count all the different headlines that have featured certain numbers. That's the only way we will know for sure, but until that day. I like to keep it as a lucky charm :)
mainly just the numbers in the alphabet
I had a boat with a sail number p17 ? Wish I still had that boat now 17 is the number to save us