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... and some figures from the US, courtesy of the National Safety Council ... you are 17,600 times more likely to die from heart disease than from a terrorist attack you are 12,571 times more likely to die from cancer than from a terrorist attack you are 11,000 times more likely to die in a plane accident than from a terrorist plot involving a plane you are 1048 times more likely to die from a car accident than from a terrorist attack you are 404 times more likely to die in a fall than from a terrorist attack you are 87 times more likely to drown than die in a terrorist attack you are 13 times more likely to die in a railway accident than from a terrorist attack you are 12 times more likely to die from accidental suffocation in bed than from a terrorist attack you are 9 times more likely to choke to death on your own vomit than die in a terrorist attack you are 8 times more likely to be killed by a police officer than by a terrorist you are 8 times more likely to die from accidental electrocution than from a terrorist attack you are 6 times more likely to die from hot weather than from a terrorist attack ... while in the UK, you are more likely to die alone and forgotten on a trolley in a hospital corridor, or drown in a boating lake in front of a rapt audience of firemen, police and paramedics, or starve to death in a care home, than you are ... well, any bloody way, to be honest ... either on this site or on the World Wide Web. Copyright © 2012 The GOS |
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