It's easy to stay away from sharks and airplanes and terrorists because those are things that can very obviously kill us, but who thinks about avoiding death from pen caps, champagne corks or our little innocent ankle-biters? The truth is that you're statistically much more likely to die from the last three than the first three!! If you consider yourself safety-conscious, read on:

More Americans are killed by toddlers than terrorists

With all of the attention that terrorism gets these days you'd think that it would be a serious epidemic that is going to run rampant if we don't do something right? Probably because those guys do nasty acts on purpose. But, where's the legislation that protects us all from accidental death by smiling toddler?


More people have been killed in the U.S. by firearms every year than all of the soldiers lost in both of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, since they STARTED.

Once again, because it's what they do, you'd think that soldiers put themselves in so much more danger than the average citizen, but we're actually less safe than they are. We want to bring our soldiers home but statistically they're safer overseas. And the gun debate continues...


You're more likely to get a computer virus from a church website than a porn one.

While a church website might be more wholesome in content than a porn site, they're far from safe for your computer. Churches usually try to get volunteers to do everything and because they're not professionals their skill sets are almost always lacking. So consider that next time you look up a churches service times online.


You can actually survive a fall out of an airplane, from ANY height!

Of course the bigger you are, the harder you will fall, but a typical human being tops out at about 120 miles an hour in a free fall but believe it or not can still survive on impact! In 1972, a woman once fell out of an airplane at 33 THOUSAND FEET and survived impact, and even more mind blowing than that, she's not alone in this feat. There's little to no oxygen that high up too, so how she didn't die from suffocation either or a heart attack form the shock of falling is beyond me.


More than 90% of people that are in an airplane crashes each year SURVIVE

In the already EXTREMELY unlikely event that you're in an airplane accident, keep in mind that more than 90% of people survive them. That seems like a pretty good survival rate to you doesn't it? Many routine surgeries you'd undergo have far less survival odds than that.


More people are killed by falling coconuts, vending machines and PIGS than by sharks.

Um, you've heard of 'Shark Week' on TV, but it'd be just silly to insert anything else into that title. "Hey man, I watched coconut week last night and the way that guy died was inSANE!" Said no one. Ever. Sharks just look mean but take heed next time you pass by a vending machine or pet the oinker.


Every year, deer kill more people than bears, dogs, wolves, alligators, sharks, spiders, bees, wasps, scorpions, and snakes COMBINED.

You can see it now, a graceful doe in a sunny thicket, breeze is blowing, tall grass is flowing and butterflies are flitting about. Flutes are playing that sweet melody in our heads. But don't let that fool you, these buggers are serial killers (probably though from when they decide to play chicken with our cars). But hey, it's a fact. Here snaky snaky snaky...


The likelihood of dying from a dog bite is less than the chances of dying of a heat wave

If you had to choose would you buy a dog cage or an AC unit? Well you might choose the latter now. Heat doesn't seem like a huge killer at all unless of course if you're maybe a little older and susceptible to it or happen to be doing a decathalon in 100 degree air.


6 people a year in the U.S. are killed by poisonous spider bites. That's less than those that die from flying champagne corks

That's it?!? Wow, but those champagne corks go whipping when ya pop em so that makes sense that they'd HIT people but DYING?? Wow. "Here, lemme point this champagne bottle at you like a gun, no hold STILL I wanna see if this'll actually work." What's next? Background checks on people when they go to buy wine??


About 100 people a year die from choking on pen caps, that's twice more people that get fried by lightning.

When ever we see lightning we all go running for cover cause we don't wanna get zapped, but can you imagine a crowd heading for the hills if they sighted a garden-variety ballpoint? Ha! But in all seriousness, it's a nervous habit: even though we're not toddlers (see above), we still put pens in our mouths especially when we're thinking about that really hard poser. Think AGAIN. And it's not even ink poisoning, it's the dang cap. Imagine the obituary on that one.


So waddya do, stay home tied locked in an empty room without going near anything or anyone? Nah. Of course not. Be careful, but live your life to it's fullest because you just never know how you're gonna go.

 

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