A friend of mine that lives in San Diego, always brags to me at how he often beats the odds, really proved it to me last week. In one day he hit a hole in one while playing golf, and the following afternoon he won at poker with two consecutive royal flushes. The following day he surpassed that while relaxing on the beach after he was informed that he won seven figures with a lottery ticket. Unfortunately, his odds beating continued in a very dreadful way, because as he was waded in the water offshore, he was attacked by a shark while simultaneously being struck by lightning. What the…