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Hmmm...was this before or after the bus beheading in Manitoba...?
Compare the number of bus beheadings to the number of people killed in boring old car accidents?
Yup. Boring is, well, boring. Under the radar. Way under the radar, buried somewhere down in Earth's core.
It's not a dry quantitative thing. It's a weighted comparison. Think for example of all the expensive creepy gear some parents buy to track their kids, and all the expensive amber-alert signs along major highways all across the country - even though said gear and said signs deal with only the rarest of hazards. And yet those same parents think nothing of driving the kids across the state and back for no real reason at all. Surely, then, it should be no great surprise if one's family reacts: take the bus? you must be off your meds!
One of the local news programs came up with some stats. Since 2000 on Greyhound buses in Canada there have been:
Travelling by bus never worries me - in January, I travelled by Greyhound on exactly the same route where the murder occurred and it was a totally uneventful trip.
Walking in the woods is a different story. Bears recently seem to be developing a taste for people around here... that's why I don't plan to "run for the hills" when PO hits :)
Bear attacks