[pct-l] Bear danger on the PCT - put in perspective

[Hillary Schwirtlich]

http://xkcd.com/795/

i feel like this comic is pretty appropriate here. "the annual death rate of
people who know that statistic is one in six."

:P

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 1:37 PM, <abiegen at cox.net> wrote:

> Just to put the danger from bears in perspective:
>
>      You are 120 times more likely to die of a bee sting than a black bear
> attack
>
>      You are 45 times more likely to die from a dog attack than a black
> bear attack
>
>      1 person out of 16,000 commits murder but only 1 black bear out of one
> million does.  So people are much more dangerous than bears!   Fear people
> and respect bears.
>
>     There are about 750,000 black bears in North America and on average
> there is less than one black bear killing per year.
>
>      For each person killed by a black bear attack there are 13 people
> killed by snakes, 17 by spiders, 45 by dogs, 120 by bees, 150 by tornadoes,
> 374 by lightning, and 60,000 by humans.
>
> Thanks to Grizzly Bay at www.grizzlybay.org
>
> The above information from
> http://www.grizzlybay.org/LearnMore/DoGrizzlyBearsEatPeople.htm
>
> TrailHacker
>
> "When my feet hurt, I can't think straight"
> Abraham Lincoln
>
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