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The slow motion punches always amuse me.
Similarly, there are a lot of really lazy bad maps out there that are trying to make some point about a statistic, but are really just population density maps. Give your up votes to the person that links the appropriate xkcd.
I like to say, “Stastically you’re much more likely to die in a car accident on the way to the beach than be attacked by a shark once there.”
So people are less afraid of sharks and more afraid of each other, like it should be.
Maybe, but if we rode on sharks to get around I’m sure the statistic would be different.
We wouldn’t get far before the shark would asphyxiate though, I think it’s a bad replacement for cars
“Who here plans on driving their car today? Show of hands!” … “I recommend getting to know these people, because you are far more likely to die in an car accident caused by a stranger than by someone you know. But also don’t upset them, as you are far more likely to be murdered by someone you know rather than a stranger.”
“Mr Tourguide, aren’t you supposed to talk about sharks?”
I had a VERY close call against a cow once. Never seen a coyote, so I can’t really compare.
Coyotes aren’t super big and alone are pretty timid and rarely approach things bigger than it (like an adult human). Though when starving or other certain conditions drive them to approach larger animals or big open space (I.E. in a pack, or rabies), be mightily wairy.
(This is anecdotal experience only, please take it and reference it as such only)
Where do you live that there are cows but not coyotes? I thought coyotes were more or less a worldwide nuisance anywhere rural enough to have cattle.
Outside of North America 😳
Gotcha. I knew they had spread from Alaska to Panama, so I thought they’d moved into South America and Eurasia as well
There’s more than 30 millions of cows in Europe, and zero coyotes.
Yes, thank you for making the same point the other poster had already made.
You’re welcome!
And I heard you’ll more likely die on your way to collect your win than actually win the lottery.
And I heard home is a very dangerous place, cos lots of people die because of it…or at it?
That’s something that always gets me with certain safety recalls.
Like the Samsung Note 7’s second recall. Something like 1 out of 2 million phones caught fire. It just happened to do it on an airplane and got the phones banned by the FAA. Nobody was injured by the phones catching fire.
How many people died in car wrecks going to the store to swap out their phones?
How many of those people were only going to swap their phone though? How many would have been driving anyway. How many would have been killed doing something else because they weren’t going to swap out their phone…
While an interesting thought, there’s no way to know an alternate timeline of events.
Cows are smarter than they look. Long ago I worked in a dairy operation and they would do things to fuck with you… like if you weren’t super careful in a milking stall they’d casually lean to one side (“oopsie! my bad”) to squish you. Or let the poop rip at just the right moment.
I don’t blame them one bit.
I always think about this when people say vending machines are more likely to kill you than sharks.
Are they looking at vending machines only in beach cities or in the middle of like, Arizona too?
I also feel that vending machines don’t really suddenly strike you without warning and through no fault of your own
Tell me you live in a safe neighborhood without saying you live in a safe neighborhood…
Your “feeling” are invalidating hundreds of peoples lived experience of the terror of vending machine gang violence
The chances are low, but never zero.
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Cows are 300 times more likely to kill someone than coyotes. Not you.
Are you sure about that? My cholesterol has been looking mighty high lately.
Coyotes are pretty small though, I think cattle would still be more dangerous.
You have clearly never been in a holding pen with 300 coyotes. Cows are not pack hunters.
Neither are coyotes, at least not by nature. They may live in a pack, but they typically travel and hunt solo or in pairs.
Im pretty sure you haven’t been either
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