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

[Scott Williams]

That is a great strip.

Thanks,

Shroomer

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Brandon McGinnity <bmcginnity at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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
> > >
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> > >
> > > "When my feet hurt, I can't think straight"
> > > Abraham Lincoln
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