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Great White attack victim

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RB

More people were killed by falling coconuts last year than were killed
by shark attacks.
krj

Bobsprit wrote:

Great White attack victim

http://www.sharkattacks.com/more4.jpg

RB

Heh... I saw the park ranger from USVI at Brewer's Bay on the BVI's get
whacked by a falling coconut. He went down like a sack of potatoes. He lived
but had a major head ache for a while.

Just prior to the incident..... he was explaining to me why he always wore
a helmet in the coconut grove area..... he had just removed it because he
was under the tarp on my campsite. He was walking back to their campsite
when he got hit. It was the third time he had been hit by a falling coconut.
I mean... What are the chances of that????

Two days later a diver got his leg chomped on by a shark..... he was towing
a string of speared fish... it was next to his legs. You should have seen
the blood in the water. I stood by and waited while the rescue boat came to
pick him up..... never saw that shark. It was one of the 6 footers that I
knew and had seen earlier diving in the area.

Life is full of dangers..... enjoy them.

CM

"Kelton Joyner" wrote in message
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| More people were killed by falling coconuts last year than were killed
| by shark attacks.
| krj
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| Bobsprit wrote:
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| Great White attack victim
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| http://www.sharkattacks.com/more4.jpg
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| RB
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|

Capt. Mooron wrote:
It was the third time
he had been hit by a falling coconut. I mean... What are the chances
of that????

1:1 if you live under a coconut tree.

-paul

http://www.montrealmirror.com/ARCHIV.../HSG/hsg4.html

But if you really want to get into this, consider bee stings. There are only a few fatal
bee & wasp stings a year for those that are not allergic. but if you do suffer, the number
goes way up. And its suspected that a significant number of seeming heart attacks are
actually caused by allergic reactions to insect - perhaps many thousands a year.

"Paul Cassel" wrote in message
rthlink.net...
Kelton Joyner wrote:
More people were killed by falling coconuts last year than were killed
by shark attacks.
krj

How about citing a source for that claim?

-paul

One day in San Diego, I saw a guy standing at the surf line. It seemed
strange because he seemed to be standing in a bunch of seaweed.
That's why I noticed him. When I got closer, I realized he was standing
in a pool of his own blood. Apparently, he stepped on a sand shark,
and it bit him on the back of his lower leg... no more golf for him. I got
his gf to hold a compress on it, and I went for the paramedics... no cell
phones in those days. It was a pretty ugly wound.

"Capt. Mooron" wrote in message
...
Heh... I saw the park ranger from USVI at Brewer's Bay on the BVI's get
whacked by a falling coconut. He went down like a sack of potatoes. He
lived
but had a major head ache for a while.

Just prior to the incident..... he was explaining to me why he always
wore
a helmet in the coconut grove area..... he had just removed it because he
was under the tarp on my campsite. He was walking back to their campsite
when he got hit. It was the third time he had been hit by a falling
coconut.
I mean... What are the chances of that????

Two days later a diver got his leg chomped on by a shark..... he was
towing
a string of speared fish... it was next to his legs. You should have seen
the blood in the water. I stood by and waited while the rescue boat came
to
pick him up..... never saw that shark. It was one of the 6 footers that I
knew and had seen earlier diving in the area.

Life is full of dangers..... enjoy them.

CM

"Kelton Joyner" wrote in message
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| More people were killed by falling coconuts last year than were killed
| by shark attacks.
| krj
|
| Bobsprit wrote:
|
| Great White attack victim
|
| http://www.sharkattacks.com/more4.jpg
|
| RB
|
|

More people were killed by falling coconuts last year than were killed
by shark attacks

That's why I don't have any coconut trees in my yard.

--
katysails
s/v Chanteuse
Kirie Elite 32
Ad eundum quo nemo ante iit.
http://katysails.tripod.com

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax
and get used to the idea." - Robert A. Heinlein

Sorry Oz! Guns don't even come close to automobiles as
the biggest killers. Let's ban automobiles.

"Oz1" wrote in message ...

Biggest killer is your own guns...you know the ones you use to protect
yourselves.
Was it 5 dead in the Lockheed Martin factory today?

Jeff Morris wrote:

But if you really want to get into this, consider bee stings. ...

Kelton Joyner wrote:
More people were killed by falling coconuts last year than ...

A major killer here in the USA is "medical misadventure" (MD's
mistakes). Naturally they are less than widely reported.

Stay out of the hospital!

Howard