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"Kamus of Kadizhar" wrote in message
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On Tue, 24 Feb 2004 21:09:29 +0000, Michael Paul wrote:

Not to be outdone, those "extreme" hikers are also likely to fall
victim to the unforseen.........



And for the truly bizzare, didn't Atkins die from slipping on a
sidewalk? Yeesh, I think I'll cut my feet off....


--Kamus

for odds on the bizarre, check out the full story he

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/f...z1c22odds.html

but excerpts:

Chances of dying from a mountain lion attack in California 1 in 32
million Chance of dying from contact with hot tap water 1 in 5,005,564
Chance of dying from a car accident: 1 in 18,585
Chance of dying in an airplane accident: 1 in 354,319
Chance of dying from parts falling off an airplane: 1 in 10,000,000

Odds of dying from shaving 6,585 to 1
Odds of getting hemorrhoids: 25 to 1
Odds of being on plane with a drunken pilot: 117 to 1 (Am I the only
one distrubed by this one?)
Odds of writing a New York Times best seller: 220 to 1
Odds of catching a ball at a major league ballgame: 563 to 1
Odds of becoming president: 10 million to 1

and the grandaddy of them all.............Odds of a meteor landing on
your house 182,138,880,000,000 to 1

Michael

Damn...life is still 100% fatal.


Not true. Is everybody that ever lived dead? Are you dead?

Steve.