The most dangerous white collar job is pilot.Approximately 365 Americans drown every year in their own bathtubs.
Men are six times more likely than women to be struck by lightning.
Thirty-five Americans die per day from falls.
125,000 people are injured in or because of a bed every year.
Only 26% of bicyclists admitted to hospitals were due to accidents involving a collision or near miss with a car. All the others just fell off their bikes.
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I feel much safer knowing the many ways one can injure or kill themselves.
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and, now it's snowing, on Friday the 13th, it will be completely Looney-Tunes time on I-270
Heh, I fell off my bike when I was a freshman in high school, and had to go to the hospital for a deep cut on my chin and "green-stick" fracture of my right arm.
No car was involved, just a loose nut on the front axle, causing the wheel to fall right out of the forks. So I guess I would've been in that other 74%.
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Stan -- the front wheel of your bike came off while you were riding it? There is no macho way to get up after that accident -- plus any head cut produces tons of blood -- did it hurt the bike?
Hi Jim, well a very happy Friday the 13th to you. Have a safe drive out of town. Try to avoid those crazy Missouri road signs and generally enjoy your weekend. Probably a three day weekend for you and Rooty.
Let's not talk about accidents in bed, around the bed, or otherwise, ok???
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Hi Moni!!!!!
It's still snowning, but not sticking to the streets, just the grass and trees.
We are actually saying home this weekend. No one that I know is off on Monday and I don't feel like going to the country alone.
Even as I type, I'm installing air bags on my bed...
Jim
I was cutting a corner across someone's yard, and I wanted to catch some air on the downward slope of the driveway. I lifted the front wheel; and for a split second, as the wheel was rolling ahead of me and the empty forks were in the air, I wondered, "Is that my wheel?" I crashed, straight down on the forks, still holding onto the handlebars...I flipped over the front and landed chin-first on the asphalt.
I needed tons of stitches in my chin...guess why I usually have it covered up with a goatee?
The macho scar
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"Is that my wheel?" <==REALLY FUNNY!!! [Is Fun Stan going to come out an play again on Dinglemunch? I miss him!]
Why not just have the scar minimized with plastic surgery? Or, of course, tell people it's a skiing accident. "I fell on my bicycle" will impress no girl. I know a guy who sliced his cheek on the side of a pool -- he tells people it was a knife fight.
I was riding toward the house of a girl I had a crush on...does that count?
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only if you're into pity sex :)
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