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Post by onlymark on Apr 25, 2012 17:00:56 GMT
Where are you at most risk of dying by falling out of bed? What about death by lawnmower? Here are apparently the places where you are most likely in the world to die of..............
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Post by bjd on Apr 25, 2012 18:08:23 GMT
Oh shit, I just booked a ticket to Budapest. I'll have to make sure I sleep on the floor.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2012 18:11:10 GMT
Dying of old age does not look like a risk to me.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 25, 2012 19:51:15 GMT
Are the beds in Hungary exceptionally high?
I'm thanking my lucky stars I got out of the US in time, before one of those lawnmowers with my name on it got me!
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Post by Kimby on Apr 26, 2012 6:57:01 GMT
Feeling lucky we survived Namibia without getting in a wreck. I'm not surprised that country scored high in that category, though, as our reserved rental car was not available as it had been wrecked the week before. They gave us another car which we fetched from a gated yard filled with wrecked rental cars.
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Post by bixaorellana on Apr 27, 2012 5:21:05 GMT
That's pretty funny in a sick way, Kimby.
I just noticed that the death's head icon for shark attacks in Australia is shown inland on the map. That's a sobering thought.
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Post by foreverman on May 2, 2012 11:48:57 GMT
I am keeping away from Tanzania.......lol
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Post by hwinpp on May 2, 2012 14:29:01 GMT
That's pretty funny in a sick way, Kimby. I just noticed that the death's head icon for shark attacks in Australia is shown inland on the map. That's a sobering thought. They're just place holders, Bix. There are no rivers at that exact point in Australia. On the big rivers in the east, and also in Africa and the Amazon and Orinoco basins there are bull sharks though, that can go very far up freshwaterways.
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Post by charlie on May 10, 2012 9:13:15 GMT
Hm, no death by anything in Canada. My leaving may have been premature.
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Post by bixaorellana on May 11, 2012 0:50:39 GMT
Huh ~~ true!
You also moved to a country where nothing causes death. Cool move!
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Post by foreverman on May 21, 2012 9:42:58 GMT
That's pretty funny in a sick way, Kimby. I just noticed that the death's head icon for shark attacks in Australia is shown inland on the map. That's a sobering thought. Where the icon is you are far more likely to die of heat exhaustion or thirst..........lol
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Post by bixaorellana on May 21, 2012 15:10:11 GMT
That's cheery ~~ something for both sun and surf lovers. There are documented attacks of inland shark attacks: Bull sharks swim from the ocean into freshwater rivers and streams and have attacked people around the world. In his book Sharks: Attacks on Man (1975), Llano writes, “ One of the most surprising aspects of the Matawan Creek attacks was the distance from the open sea. Elsewhere in the book are accounts of well-documented shark attacks at Ahwaz, Iran, which is 90 miles (140 km) upriver from the sea. It may also be of interest to note that sharks live in Lake Nicaragua, a fresh-water body, and in 1944 there was a bounty offered for dead freshwater sharks, as they had "killed and severely injured lake bathers recently."sourceand: [bull sharks]have been caught some 900 miles up the Mississippi River. "They have been captured in St. Louis. They have traveled 2500 miles up the Amazon. They have some mechanism in their make-up that allows them to process freshwater and not require high salinity to live."sourceand in Australia: ...Jeremy[Wade] has heard of another attack 80 miles in land and goes to meet racehorse trainer Alan Treadwell near Brisbane. In 2005, Alan was taking one of his most successful horses for exercise in the river when the horse struggled and Alan realised there was something hanging off the back of it, submerging the 1,000 pound horse. Alan was able to pull his horse to safety and the vet who treated him photographed the wound. Jeremy shows the photograph to scientist Vic Peddamors who says: “I would definitely say it looks like a shark bite… This isn’t much of a crescent, which suggests that the jaw must have been fairly big.” Vic concludes that the creature that attacked Alan Treadwell’s horse was a bull shark over eight feet long, but Jeremy can’t work out how a shark could have got through Mount Crosby Weir; a dam that has been in place for over 100 years just five miles down the river. The difference in height between the water on the ocean side and the upriver side is 12 feet. But, looking through government archives, Jeremy discovers the Brisbane River has flooded repeatedly, with one extreme occurrence in 1974. As the flood subsided, a colony of bull sharks, some growing to over eight feet long, were locked in far upriver. source
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