new worst movie ever??

[Stephen Wilcoxon]

I do see some interesting patterns in your numbers for shark fatalities
though (assuming they are all accurate).

Two-thirds as many people were killed in 2001-2010 as were killed 1959-2000
(10 vs 16 (26-10)).  Of those killed in 200x, at least 9 were killed after
2005 ((18 > shark kills 1948-2005) meaning 0 or 1 were killed 2001-2005).
 Florida is probably the state with the highest chance of fatal shark
attack.

It does seem to indicate that fatal shark attacks have been much higher
recently than historically (though still very low - at most 10 deaths
2006-2010)...


On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 11:59 AM, <Andy_Bach at wiwb.uscourts.gov> wrote:

>
> http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2013/07/sharknado-sharknado-sharknado-sharknado-sharknado
>
> The film raises a serious question: *Could *a sharknado happen in real
> life? Animals often get caught in the paths of tornadoes, but they
> typically *die*<http://articles.latimes.com/2013/may/23/nation/la-na-nn-oklahoma-tornado-horses-20130523>before they get the chance to harm Tara Reid. An Associated Press
> *report*<http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jkpJAAAAIBAJ&sjid=NoQMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3950,4198503&dq=sharks+tornado&hl=en>from 1969 describes a Florida tornado that swept through Ocean World.
> Rather than emboldening the sharks and inspiring heightened, Tara
> Reid-related bloodlust, the tornado sent the startled animals *diving for
> cover*<http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=jkpJAAAAIBAJ&sjid=NoQMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3950,4198503&dq=sharks+tornado&hl=en>at the bottom of their shallow pool. "We haven't counted the sharks yet,"
> the Ocean World president told the press as his team frantically checked up
> on the park's valuable fish. In the end, his team had no sharknado to
> report. Furthermore, even if a sharknado were to somehow form and begin
> chasing Tara Reid, it is improbable that the whirlwind of shark would pose
> a danger to humans beyond accidental crushing. (Sharks rarely ever hurt
> people, and *you're more likely to get maimed by your own toilet*<http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/11/us/shark-attack-report>[1] than by any species of shark.)
>
> a
>
> [1]
> http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/11/us/shark-attack-report
>
> How slim? The Florida Museum of Natural History has a *host of phenomena
> that are more likely*<http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/Sharks/attacks/relarisk.htm>than a shark attack, and National Geographic in 2011 put together a list of
> things that are more likely to injure you. Among them:
>
> -Since 1948, those in any U.S. state with alligators had a better chance
> of being killed by one of the reptiles, which had killed 18 people as of
> 2005, than they did of suffering a fatal shark attack. Conversely, those
> folks still had a slightly better chance of a nonfatal shark attack.
>
> --Between 1985 and 2010, Floridians were almost 21 times as likely to be
> killed by a tornado (125 deaths) as by a shark (six). Between 1990 and
> 2009, the state also saw 2,272 bicycle deaths, compared to four from sharks.
>
> --In the coastal U.S., lightning killed almost 76 times as many people
> (1,970) as did sharks (26) between 1959 and 2010.
>
> --From 2001 to 2010, dogs killed more than 26 times the number of people
> (263) than did sharks (10) in the U.S.
>
> --Between 1984 and 1987, *New York City had almost 1,600 incidents
> annually of humans biting other humans*<http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/sharks/attacks/relariskcity.htm>.
> That's not really germane to this story so much as it is plain odd.
>
> --Sand-hole collapses aren't generally considered among the greatest
> threats in the U.S., as they killed only 16 people between 1990 and 2006 --
> but that's still five more people than sharks killed.
>
> --In 1996, *toilets injured 43,000 Americans*<http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2011/11/22/nat-geo-wild-what-are-the-odds-some-surprising-shark-attack-stats/>,
> buckets and pails hurt almost 11,000 and room fresheners were responsible
> for 2,600 injuries in the nation. Sharks injured 13 people that same year.
> (There are a variety of toilet-related injuries: Seats can fall, smashing
> boys' genitalia mid-micturition; cracks in toilet seats can pinch a user's
> buttocks; and, as the ladies have explained time and time again, gentlemen,
> leaving the toilet seat up can cause folks to crash into the toilet bowl,
> damaging their buttocks and/or tailbones.)
>
>
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