Editing Sod's law (section)

== Examples ==

Some examples are [[traffic lights]] turning red when a driver is in a hurry, or email software crashing at the exact moment the user attempts to send an important message.<ref name=Hand/> Sod's law has also been applied to individuals, such as the composer [[Beethoven]] losing his hearing or [[Def Leppard]] drummer [[Rick Allen (drummer)|Rick Allen]] losing an arm in a car crash.<ref name=Hand/>

Other examples are [[Buttered toast phenomenon|dropped bread always landing butter side down]], or it raining just after one has washed the car and on the weekend one goes to the beach.<ref name=whatculture/>

A discrediting example is a [[coin toss]] resulting in tails the more strongly that one wishes the result to be heads. [[Richard Dawkins]] said that this shows the idea of Sod's law is "nonsense", as the coin is unaware of the person's wish and has no desire to thwart it.<ref name="Dawkins">{{cite book |author=Dawkins |first=Richard |title=The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True |publisher=Simon and Schuster |year=2012 |isbn=978-1-4516-9013-2 |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=Kxv9qbdqnj4C&pg=PA222 222] |author-link=Richard Dawkins}}</ref>