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RE: food for thought
- Subject: RE: food for thought
- From: "Stuart Mumford" <s2mumford@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 11:54:30 -0800
> From: Thomas Emberson <thomas@xxxxxxx>, on 03/27/2000 22:35:
> EMT's and doctors are among the worst when it comes to people
> > who tell motorcycle horror stories to drive people away from the
> > hobby. Whenever I hear one of these guys yapping, I hand them
> > this:
> >
> > Number of physicians in the U.S. - 700,000
> > Accidental deaths caused/year - 98,000
> > Accidental deaths/per Doctor - 0.14
> >
> > Number of motorcycles in the U.S. - 4,000,000
> > Accidental deaths/year - 2,000
> > Accidental deaths per bike - 0.0005
> >
> > Therefore, doctors are approximately 280 times more
> > dangerous than motorcycles! (NCOM NEWS & NOTES)
And let's face it folks, we all know that 95% of statistics are BS anyway.
Last note on the shotgun barrel / ass post. I think a humorous barb or two
on the list is like tabasco sauce. A little adds spice, too much can ruin a
good thing.
CA Stu
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