{"id":646,"date":"2011-12-27T09:00:09","date_gmt":"2011-12-27T17:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoddsmustbecrazy.com\/?p=646"},"modified":"2011-12-27T09:00:09","modified_gmt":"2011-12-27T17:00:09","slug":"not-a-trivial-coincidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/tombc\/2011\/12\/27\/not-a-trivial-coincidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Not a Trivial Coincidence"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Submitted<\/strong> by reader Donald Chesebro<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

I<\/strong> watch hundreds of movies a year, much more than the average person,\u00a0and take notes during most of them as part of preparing for an annual\u00a0trivia contest in my hometown. \u00a0Thus, whenever a character drives or\u00a0otherwise encounters a motor vehicle, I will write down (for example)\u00a0what type of vehicle it is and what its license number is, if it’s\u00a0visible.<\/p>\n

Yesterday<\/strong> lunchtime, for no particular reason but for the first time\u00a0in the over 15 years since I’ve owned my 1993 teal Accord, I wondered\u00a0why I’d never seen anyone with my model of car in a movie. \u00a0I probably\u00a0see another teal 91-94 Accord on the streets of LA at least once a\u00a0month, but I’ve never seen it in the thousands of films and TV\u00a0episodes I’ve watched since I bought my car (used) in 1995. \u00a0I figured\u00a0it had something to do with Hollywood having deals with Detroit, or\u00a0the like.<\/p>\n

This<\/strong> morning, less than a day after I wondered if I’d ever see my car\u00a0in a movie, I started watching the 2011 remake of “Fright Night,”\u00a0the first\u00a0movie set in the U.S. that I watched since framing my question (the only film I watched in between was Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 the night before).<\/p>\n

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Four<\/strong> minutes into the film, there’s a ’91-’94 teal Accord parked in\u00a0the driveway of the character named Doris.<\/p>\n

[EDITOR: <\/strong>Meanwhile my car’s bumper sticker is “My other car is a Nimbus 2000,” so I probably would have seen my second vehicle the first night and made it even crazier a coincidence!]<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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