A year later his younger brother, Jonathan, 22, was electrocuted in a freakish accident.

The prophecy had been cheated by a freakish accident of weather and timing.

Suddenly, through some freakish accident, its principles were discovered.

It was a freakish accident, but one which turned the winter resort industry inside-out in its aftermath.

They beat Chicago - a freakish accident, the Bulls seemed to suggest.

"In my opinion," he said, "last night was just a freakish accident."

There remained great concern whether the 30-year-old Ojeda, who had nearly cut off part of a finger in a freakish accident, would ever pitch again.

"Wasn't your fault-just a freakish accident," Tom tried to calm him.

However, they are quite clearly not inherently evil but simply the victims of a freakish accident of history.

He sustained a serious injury to his throat in a freakish accident during a baseball practice eight years ago.