Airport bomb threats.

BOMB THREAT!

Heathrow on high alert over “credible” intelligence

Security has been beefed up after intelligence al-Qaeda is plotting attacks on airlines flying out of London.

Reroute your flights to Las Vegas until things return to normal.

so sick of these scumbag terrorists...

so sick of these scumbag dogs...*


* Chances of being killed by being bitten or struck by a dog: 1 in 122,216.
Chances of being killed by a terrorist: 1 in 20 million.

Getting tired of those damn scumbag pooches that bite also..

J

You're comparing being bit by a dog with being killed by a terrorist? Yeah, that's an apple to apple comparison.
All this time the extra security steps one encounters when flying is because of increased dog bites? Who knew?

I prefer a bananas to bananas comparison, because let's face it, bananas are funnier than apples.

But the underlying truth behind all (ahem) quality humor is there. People are afraid of the wrong things. The spider in the motel room is more likely to kill you than the shark in the ocean. The person most likely to murder you is living inside your gated community and window bars, not outside.

And yes, the drive to the airport is more dangerous than the flight, even with the possibility of terrorism. So are dogs.

When the night stalker was killing someone every other night in the southland, does that mean I should have never been concerned because the odds were against me being killed by him?

I've listened to liberals with the attitude of "so what if a plane goes down every other month from a terrorist attack, your odds are still almost nill of ever being killed".

I don't think those people take into the consideration of what happens to businesses and the economy when such events either occur or if they should occur.

Yep, I imagine that the recent shark attack will hurt the Maui economy. But the downturn in the economy is due to the irrational fear, not due to the attack, right?

Now rational people can perhaps bargain hunt for Hawaii vacations, while the irrationally fearful can stay home with their assault rifles and their duct tape.

actually there have been a number of shark attacks all around the hawaiian islands this year. there has been 65 shark attacks in the area between 2001 and 2013, 8 this year alone. this is the first time someone died from a shark attack in a number of years though.

The problem is that the woman was snorkelling in the late afternoon (6pm or so), dinnertime for sharks. other attacks occurred in murky waters after a storm or rains, also not good because sharks head closer to shore to check out the muck from rainwater runoff. while not all attacks can be attributed to the above situations, many victims were alone in the water in areas not frequented by swimmers.

Most tourists stay in the general swimming areas like waikiki or ala moana, unlike the movie Jaws while the sharks sometimes visit areas where there are a lot of people in the water they don't come in to attack or the lifeguards will close the beach if they see a shark in the water.

On the other hand there have been 14 drowinings on kauai this year alone. but that doesn't scare the tourists away and even with education campaigns about the dangers of the water tourists still drown.