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| cougarmagic |
They don't even mention snakes!http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20090718/NEWS/907179963/1062Top 10 dangerous things in the outdoors.... |
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| AlanK |
Re: They don't even mention snakes!
I think that male snakes get covered under Item #1. |
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| HikeUp |
No mention of dying from being an obnoxious USC fan either. | ||||
| simonov |
That guy's punctuation, spelling and grammar are atrocious.
Since the article is about things that actually kill people, I'm not surprised snakes don't make the cut. I gather rattle snakes aren't actually responsible for very many human deaths. |
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| AlanK |
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| HikeUp |
This is meaningless gibberish, isn't it? Is it because there are twice as many hikers on weekends than weekdays during July (i.e. lightning season). Is the data normalized by something like 'number of hikers per day', or does the percentage of hikers getting killed by lightning actual increase as the number of hikers increases? Normalized by number of lightning strikes per day?
Statistics can be so manipulated that without background information they're meaningless. |
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| Zé |
wtf with trees? the article title mentions camping....then say people die skiing into trees. wtf |
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| cougarmagic |
Yeah, it's a little goofy. Either there are more men hiking in general (yes), or women don't hike in stormy weather, or lightning prefers men.... So in their recommendations of how to avoid these dangers, one of them is "be a girl". yay for me! I can now take ridiculous risks, with no fear of consequence! |
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| TacoDelRio |
Tarantulas are not venomous to humans.
Gravity should be up there around #1. The Y-Chromosome one made me think... Captain Safety wrote this. |
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| lilbitmo |
Y-ChromosomeHike Up Wrote
In order to make the list you actually have to have the Y-Chromosome - why else wouldn't you put a picture of yourself on the blog sites? Instead you can just put everyone else's picture that isn't dressed according to your idea of what's supposed to be worn in the wilderness? Whatever you do, don't tresspass or hijack this thread or a bad picture of you will end up here. 
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| edenooch |
wtf is up with No. 8. i have never seen an orange moose or elk! | ||||
| HikeUp |
The Rabbit of Caerbannog.
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| TacoDelRio |
The rabbit is always #1.
"Oh mighty sorcerer, what is your name?" "Some people call me..... Tim." |
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| Zé |
man the first time i saw that scene i was lying of the floor dying of laughing pain
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| Hikin_Jim |
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