My favourite story of situational irony concerns the British boxing promoter, Frank Warren. He was getting out of a car on November 30, 1989, when he was shot in the chest by an unknown gunman. The bullet just missed his heart. That was lucky enough, but what makes the story barely credible is that while the surgeons were removing the bullet, they discovered a small tumor, which they removed. Had the putative murderer have left his gun at home, nature would have taken its course and the world would have been left with one fewer Frank Warrens... The gunman inadvertantly saved Rank Warren's life! Can anyone top that for a "least successful murder attempt" story?