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Apr 1, 2024 20:15:43   #
dustie Loc: Nose to the grindstone
 
•• Pedestrians hit in hit-and-run,
•• Bicyclists hit in hit-and-un,
•• Workers injured or killed in falling bridge debris,
•• Don't walk under ladders

-- add another one?
Pedestrians and dog on nature trail walk injured by crashing small plane.
Small plane crash near Muncie, Indiana seriously injured two pedestrians. Their dog was treated for injuries, also.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/pilot-two-trail-walkers-injured-in-plane-crash-near-delaware-county-airport/ar-BB1kT017

https://www.wthr.com/video/news/local/first-responder-update-on-muncie-plane-crash-injuring-3-people/531-14b855fc-7565-4774-a4b3-69a75b5b149e

Just stay indoors, or what?

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Apr 1, 2024 21:40:17   #
13 Loc: I am only responsible to what I say..not what
 
what¿

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Apr 2, 2024 01:22:48   #
Curmudgeon Loc: SE Arizona
 
Do your research. It's a simply risk management evaluation.

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Apr 2, 2024 03:47:40   #
dustie Loc: Nose to the grindstone
 
Curmudgeon wrote:
Do your research. It's a simply risk management evaluation.


This is true.

Try to also remember potential assault by saw blade.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OE6JCoAoQko

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Apr 2, 2024 07:09:35   #
Linda From Maine Loc: Yakima, Washington
 
World population is over 8 billion. Everything's relative

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Apr 2, 2024 09:29:20   #
alberio Loc: Casa Grande AZ
 
dustie wrote:
This is true.

Try to also remember potential assault by saw blade.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OE6JCoAoQko


That could have shortened his life. WOW!!!

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Apr 2, 2024 15:48:55   #
dustie Loc: Nose to the grindstone
 
Linda From Maine wrote:
World population is over 8 billion. Everything's relative


Yes, yes.
If there really is anything to this stuff about probabilities and statistics, I suppose it would be possible to find a statistician who will tell us that with each passing increase in population, we each become less significant.

🤔😟

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Apr 2, 2024 15:51:01   #
dustie Loc: Nose to the grindstone
 
alberio wrote:
That could have shortened his life. WOW!!!


Just a "what if" -- what if even a child had been along with him.

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Apr 2, 2024 16:27:10   #
SteveR Loc: Michigan
 
I once saw a guy playing touch football run headfirst into a car parked on the street. It was, of course, a....run and hit.

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Apr 2, 2024 18:34:29   #
Curmudgeon Loc: SE Arizona
 
dustie wrote:
Yes, yes.
If there really is anything to this stuff about probabilities and statistics, I suppose it would be possible to find a statistician who will tell us that with each passing increase in population, we each become less significant.

🤔😟


I had a Statistics instructor who told the class if we gave him a data set and what we wanted it to prove he would find a "statistically valid" means support our conclusion. Figures don't lie but liars figure.

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Apr 2, 2024 19:10:38   #
SteveR Loc: Michigan
 
alberio wrote:
That could have shortened his life. WOW!!!


Or a tibia or two.

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Apr 2, 2024 20:34:44   #
dustie Loc: Nose to the grindstone
 
Curmudgeon wrote:
I had a Statistics instructor who told the class if we gave him a data set and what we wanted it to prove he would find a "statistically valid" means support our conclusion. Figures don't lie but liars figure.


☹️
I reckon that is more true, in many aspects of life, than we really want to believe.

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Apr 2, 2024 20:46:45   #
SteveR Loc: Michigan
 
Stay indoors? It's not even safe there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMBQvY7-J8E

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