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

[Brandon McGinnity]

I LOVE THAT COMIC STRIP! When I discovered it, I spent several days straight
obcessively reading through the entire archive. xkcd rocks :)

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Hillary Schwirtlich <
hillary.schwirtlich at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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