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Showing posts with label death. Show all posts
Showing posts with label death. Show all posts

Monday, December 2, 2013

Ah, disaster ...

We rely on you so much.

You make us feel so much better about our lives.

Though you make us feel insecure, without you, we'd only focus on the trivial things and not remember the importance of just being alive!

Without you, we'd have only this:

But because of you, we have:

Watch this video

'Gravel came flying up in our faces'

Even though the train was careening around a curve, Amanda Swanson felt the wreck in slow motion. "The train felt like it was on its side and dragging for a long time," she said. FULL STORY
 
 
 

Friday, August 2, 2013

So, THIS is news?

Wanna' know what you might have missed on CNN?

This is from there "In case you missed it" section:

 
Nine links. Eight stories. Five that deal with crime or death.
 
Meanwhile, there is nothing on elite deviance and the lead story is about al-Qaeda.
 
Remember them?
 
So which of the following is more deadly?
 
A) Tobacco
B) Defective products
C) Hazardous working conditions
D) Al Qaeda terrorism
 
The answer: A. Then B. Then C. Then D.
 
Yet D is the lead story and there are none on A, B, or C.
 
Oh yeah, and then there is this:
 
Stay relevant CNN.

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

What is most likely to kill you?

What is more dangerous to you?

Murder?

Smoking?

Something else?

What is your answer?

In fact, murder kills about 15,000 people every year in the US. Smoking more than 430,000!

Yet, the latter is legal. It is one of those "excluded harms" are far more dangerous than crime.

Turns out another legal behavior is also very dangerous. And props to media organizations such as CNN for pointing it out.

What is it? Not moving!

Physical inactivity as deadly as smoking

Now, one in every 10 deaths worldwide is caused by just sitting on your butt too much.

Researchers say physical inactivity has become a global pandemic.
Researchers say physical inactivity has become a global pandemic.

Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Toddler + gun = news

A toddler shot and killed his mother, the boy's father told South Florida police, who say they will talk to the 2-1/2-year-old.

The father, who called 911, told police he was trying to take the firearm away from the child when it discharged.

The boy's mother -- Julia Bennett, 33 -- was shot once in the back and died from the injury.

Um, so what was a 2-1/2 year old doing with a loaded gun?

And who will be surprised when it is revealed the man actuall killed his wife?

And why is this national news?

http://www.cnn.com/2011/CRIME/04/26/florida.toddler.shooting/index.html?hpt=T2