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[Dis]

what moron would die in a bathtub?

I refuse to believe this is that common. maybe with old people. Of course I never take a bath, so I don't have to worry about it.

[KrazyHorse]

I got everything right except for mixing up the bathtub/plane crash...

[Brundlefly]

Originally posted by Dissident
what moron would die in a bathtub?

I refuse to believe this is that common. maybe with old people. Of course I never take a bath, so I don't have to worry about it.

Drop the soap, bend over to pick it up, hit your head on the shower head nozzle... lights out. I could see it happening.. Not to me, but to someone else..

[alva]

Originally posted by Dissident
what moron would die in a bathtub?

I refuse to believe this is that common. maybe with old people. Of course I never take a bath, so I don't have to worry about it.

One reason could be bad boilers and thus dying from co2(?) intoxication.
Falling could be another one.

[KrazyHorse]

I once passed out in the shower. I was lying down in the bathtub when taking a hot shower, fell asleep, woke up some minutes later and stood up quickly.

My vision went completely black, I got dizzy and fell over. Cracked my head against the side of the tub, but it didn't do any real damage that I could tell. Over the next 15 seconds or so my vision returned to normal.

[DanS]

I got everything pretty much right except mixing up dog bite/plane crash.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by bfg9000

KrazyHorse came very close! He is the winner!

Maybe I should get a job as an actuary...

[Brundlefly]

I passed out in the bathtub of my room at a Jamaican resort after a night of heavy drinking.. Unfortunately I passed out with the faucet running slowly. I woke up in the middle of the night in an overflowing tub hearing muffled shouting from outside my room. There was an inch of water on the floor of the entire room. The people in the room below had complained of water leaking from the ceiling. The management just came and cleaned all of the water out of my room without any questions... I went back to the bar until they were finished..

[Solver]

Statistics . I certainly don't have even one chance in a million of dying in a plane crash as long as I don't fly.

[Brundlefly]

Originally posted by Solver
Statistics . I certainly don't have even one chance in a million of dying in a plane crash as long as I don't fly.

You could be killed by a crashing plane though..

[Dis]

you know, I've driven my car over 6200 times and I still haven't died.

does that mean my time is due?

[DanS]

It's amazing how little we spend on car driving automation, given these statistics.

If 40,000 people die in the US each year and each life is worth about $3 million (or whatever), then we would be justified in spending up to about 1% of our economic activity on rectifying the problem, or $120 billion.

[KrazyHorse]

The statsistics for risk of death are all over the course of a year.

The odds of winning powerball are for a single ticket bought for a single drawing.

[Dis]

Originally posted by DanS
It's amazing how little we spend on car driving automation, given these statistics.

If 40,000 people die in the US each year and each life is worth about $3 million (or whatever), then we would be justified in spending up to about 1% of our economic activity on rectifying the problem, or $120 billion.

we are limited by technology in some instances. Steel crashing into steel at 70 mph is going to do a lot of damage no matter what.

The only solution is for us to all drive around in tanks. Why do you think SUV's are so popular?

[DanS]

The goal would be to have a computer do the driving. It seems like a no-brainer to say that we could set up a good automated driving system with a budget of $120 billion a year.