World's unluckiest man: Paul Murphy wants to thank generous readers for his new teeth. Source: NewsComAu
THE world's unluckiest man is in the dentists's chair smiling with his new set of false teeth.
Behind that smile are further tales of woe - we'll get to that unfortunate fire bombing and two other incidents later - but Paul Murphy is not letting it spoil his day.
"I won't be able to talk properly because it'll feel like I've got a brick in my mouth," Mr Murphy says, speaking as if he has at least half a brick in there.
"I want to thank everyone who has helped me and to promise them I'll keep on trying to help others too."
Mr Murphy is the 55-year-old pensioner whose unlucky life story on news.com.au drew an overwhelming response from readers.
His string of misfortunes - including a home invasion, getting run over, burgled, hit with an iron bar and a baseball bat, a car accident, and finally losing his false teeth - was reported in publications as far afield as the Belfast Telegraph.
Paul Murphy and the sign he posted up about his lost dentures. Source: NewsComAu
Money from around Australia and as far away as Israel, the US and France flowed in to pay for the chompers after Mr Murphy's story went global.
Mr Murphy used the money to fund his new set of dentures and travelled to Hurstville in Sydney's southern suburbs for a fitting.
Dental prosthetist Ilya Jaksic fits Paul Murphy for dentures. Source: NewsComAu
In the weeks since, he has spent his time collecting discarded bicycle parts on Sydney streets to make bikes for disadvantaged Aboriginal children at the Redfern Community Centre near his Housing Commission flat.
He is also refurbishing a "junked" wheelchair for poor elderly residents at Mission Home Australia's new residential aged care facility.
"You just wouldn't believe what people throw out," Mr Murphy said inside his flat which is crammed with parts, tools and old furniture he is restoring to supplement his pension.
And finally, this week the new teeth, funded by news.com.au readers, were ready and we joined Mr Murphy on his journey to collect them - and discovered some fresh misfortunes.
Paul Murphy with his dentist — and his new news.com.au reader-funded teeth. Source: NewsComAu
"A few weeks back I got bashed in the stairwell by this bloke who stole my phone," Mr Murphy said. "I went to the local pawn shop and they had it, so I bought it back.
"A few days later I was fixing a bike and I'd put my phone down. My door was open and I turned around and there it was disappearing on a fishing rod - the same bloke, he'd hooked it through the grille."
And the fire bombing incident?
That was back in 1986, after Mr Murphy had spent two weeks in the horror hospital, Chelmsford, and its devastation of his financial position was the forerunner to his catalogue of misfortune.
"I was running my own panel shop and I had 22 cars in there at the time. One of them was this bloke's Ferrari.
"Next door was this funeral place and one day they got the body of this criminal in there, a mobster, and the police were going to reclaim the body for an investigation.
"And the night before, I mean there were a lot of paint thinners in my shop and the funeral parlour had embalming fluid, and someone torched the place to stop the police inspecting that body.
"You wouldn't believe it. I was 16 days late with my insurance premium."
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