10 things more dangerous than motorbikes please!

[sv_cath]

I'm trying to win an argument with a colleague who's going on about how dangerous motorcycles are - I've already used the example of G / Dusty / Ste's car crash last year but has anyone got examples of really weird deaths caused by mundane things so I can prove to him how he's 'living on the edge' in day to day life?
Thanks!

[jay12329]

Guy on push bike slips in the rain, head hit curb, Dead.
HTH
J

[killa]

I think over 3100 people die or are injured a year from D.I.Y accidents.
Try and look up how many people die from emergency vehicles mowing them down, that’ll shit him up.
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[Robby]

You could just accept that it is dangerous instead of trying to make him laugh.

[sv_cath]

[Itchy]

You should go to a book shop and look at the fortean times book of strange deaths including:

the chicken sex death guy (not normal mundane behaviour I know)

copying porn stars but not using a cotton wool bud in the end
rather a glass cocktail stick , think shattering.

This guy who was watching the goodies and laughed so hard he choked to death.

this other guy who was emptying his bins in winter slipped fell in and died from exposure

men dying in the throes of passion trapping their lovers under neath and them starving to death

others


Tetanus , anybody over 25 (since you get it at 16 and it wears off after 9 years) , you get rugby players who get knocked about and have small cuts exposed to soil and die.

exploding cell phones from dodgy batteries in them in SEA , nobody has been killed but they have been seriously injured

The indian tragedies , happens regularly when people often have poorly ventilated generators , somebody goes in and feints from the fumes , somebody else sees this , runs to help and feints from the fumes , so on and so on.

[KevTM]

the fact that you've got more chance of being stabbed by a chav pikey jakeball in broad daylight for no reason at all on foot than on a bike, atleast you can run 'em over first.

what about pushbikes, smaller, silent, less power, more vulnerable and imo more likely to get run over by your typical cager.

Poeple that say bikes are just plain and outright dangerous are ignorant, get them on a bike and let them experience it.. granted if you ride a non-roadworthy bike, you're a bit of a madman with no roadsense or respect for the road/your bike/other road users and don't look out for yourself then you're likely at some point to come off or do something stupid.. but generally i think bikes can be safer than cars if you're sensible for many reasons (better view of the road, acceleration to get out of trouble, shorter stopping distances, more likely to avoid collisions, and if you know how you can control your part of the road and make the cagers give you space). only problem is diesel but can usually be spotted..

anyway that's my opinion. people don't get slated for jumping out planes with parachutes even though if something does go wrong you're almost certainly dead.

[JonB]

I just wouldn't bother arguing. To Be Honest, how is one stupid arguement gonna stop you riding the bike? Sure you can pick out as many other real life dangerous things as you want but at the end of the day the media has manipulated enough people to believe that riding a motorbike is a deathtrap.
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[Itchy]

ah found this quip from somebody else


!!! BREAD IS DANGEROUS !!!

Research on bread indicates that:

1. More than 98 percent of convicted felons are bread users.
2. Fully HALF of all children who grow up in bread-consuming households score below average on standardized tests.
3. In the 18th century, when virtually all bread was baked in the home, the average life expectancy was less than 50 years; infant mortality rates were unacceptably high; many women died in childbirth; and diseases such as typhoid, yellow fever, and influenza ravaged whole nations.

4. More than 90 percent of violent crimes are committed within 24 hours of eating bread.
5. Bread is made from a substance called "dough." It has been proven that as little as one pound of dough can be used to suffocate a mouse. The average American eats more bread than that in one month!

6. Primitive tribal societies that have no bread exhibit a low incidence of cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease, and osteoporosis.
7. Bread has been proven to be addictive. Subjects deprived of bread and given only water to eat begged for bread after as little as two days.
8. Bread is often a "gateway" food item, leading the user to "harder" items such as butter, jelly, peanut butter, and even cold cuts.
9. Bread has been proven to absorb water. Since the human body is more than 90 percent water, it follows that eating bread could lead to your body being taken over by this absorptive food product, turning you into a soggy, gooey bread-pudding person.

10. Newborn babies can choke on bread.
11. Bread is baked at temperatures as high as 400 degrees Fahrenheit! That kind of heat can kill an adult in less than one minute.
12. Most American bread eaters are utterly unable to distinguish between significant scientific fact and meaningless statistical babbling.

In light of these frightening statistics, it has been proposed that the following bread restrictions be made:

1. No sale of bread to minors.
2. A nationwide "Just Say No To Toast" campaign, complete celebrity TV spots and bumper stickers.
3. A 300 percent federal tax on all bread to pay for all the societal ills we might associate with bread.
4. No animal or human images, nor any primary colors (which may appeal to children) may be used to promote bread usage.
5. The establishment of "Bread-free" zones around schools.

[Wave2k]

Smoking
being an alcoholic
having loads of gay sex with strangers
bush jumping
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[Kickstart]

Hi

Fishing. Plenty of people die doing that (remember one bit in MCN years ago commenting that more people died doing fishing for sport than died doing motorsport), doing things such as using a long rod under overhead power cables, or just getting their waders full of water and drowning.

People find loads of ways of killing themselves. Plenty die as pedestrians, cyclists or riding horses (think horse riding works out as the most dangerous form of transport per mile travelled)

All the best

Keith
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[zx636]

My Wife

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[Slickfish]

Just ask him what two things!

1)whats the safest way to travel?
2)why are bikes so dangerous?

answers you will more than likly get

1)Airplane

2)your exposed so if anyone hits you etc you get hurt, no airbags etc etc etc blar blar cluless rambling.

Then ask him how many people walk away from a bad plane crash.

I've never met anyoneone who's had a answer to that when you put it to them.

People never look at the bigger picture people have been brainwashed into reading statistics how they are told to!.

[nick.h]

[stinkwheel]

2002 RoSPA statistics show that there were 33,855 accidents in the home relating to clothing.

Full details of accident statistics on the link below. Some of it makes funny reading.

For example, 21 calculator related injuries and 533 people managed to injure themselves with a wax crayon

https://www.rospa.com/hassandlass/reports/2002data.pdf
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[mchaggis]

Life - it's an incurable fatal disease.

Bus stops - a case study we looked at. A woman was standing near the front of the bus waiting for her stop. A dog ran in front of the bus and the driver slammed on the brakes. She fell forwards and had head impact with the panel across the inside of the front of the bus below the windscreen. Dead, just like that.

Live live to the full, don't encourage death by doing stupid things, but don't sit around paralysed by fear of it, you'll only get DVT and die.
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[Danny]

I've heard that pen lids cause quite a few fatalities.

[Steve H]

10. Going Commando with Zip up Jeans (DIY SOS)
9. Trying to grate that last little chunk of cheese (Explaining that the residue of your finger in the cheese is 'Just a bit of beetroot, honest')
8. Using a Black and Decker Strimmer whilst wearing flip flops (Just chuck the end of your toe in the fishpond before you start)
7. Attempting to do the Double Dutch (© Malcolm McLaren) after too many Strongbows (Hey Ebo-Ebo-Ebonettes *hic*)
6. Chain falling off when your pedal dancing up a hill on your push bike (Goolies either side of your frame)
5. Setting the date and time on you digital watch with a drawing pin whilst wearing it (F*ck Off Casio - Bastards)
4. Eating MacDonalds Apple Pie (Asbestos Gob required)
3. Eating Salt & Vinegar crisps with an ulcer (You never show that in your soddin' Walkers ads do you Gary - Tosspot)
2. Crazy Golf with the wife/girlfriend (You're gonna get a putter in the shins when you start taking the piss after she takes 24 on the first hole)
1. Ripping that little piece of skin by your finger nail off (How were you to know that it would go all the way up to your friggin' elbow)
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[MarJay]

There was an article in the paper the other day about a woman who was standing on a stepladder pruning a hedge with secateurs. Whilst she was doing this she was also throwing a ball for her small dachsund puppy to chase.

Her husband (a retired saferty officer no less ) was trimming the hedge with what said newspaper described as a chainsaw. Now, If it were you or I we would use a dedicated hedge trimmer wouldn't we?

Anyway, the woman threw the ball to the dog, lost her footing and fell onto her husband.

She was decapitated by the chainsaw.

Nuff said.
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[garth]

A gas cooker is dangerous, if you drop it on someones head.



g a r t h
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[Villers]

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