Jazzi3J is afraid of flying. For those of you that can relate, here are some "Reassuring" facts about flying:
Andrew White ("The Magic of You") has done his research...
Your odds of death by:
- Cardiovascular disease: 1 in 2
- Smoking (by / before age 35): 1 in 600
- Car trip, coast-to-coast across the USA: 1 in 14,000
- Bicycle accident: 1 in 88,000
- Tornado: 1 in 450,000
- Train, coast-to-coast: 1 in 1,000,000
- Lightning: 1 in 1.9 million
- Bee sting: 1 in 5.5 million
- U.S. commercial jet airline: 1 in 7 million
Number of Accidental Deaths Per Year By Cause in the USA
- 100 on commercial flights
- 850 by electrocution
- 1000 on a bicycle
- 1452 by accidental gunfire
- 3000 by complications to medical procedures
- 3600 by inhaling or ingesting objects
- 5000 by fire
- 5000 by drowning
- 5300 by accidental poisoning
- 8000 as pedestrians
- 11,000 at work
- 12,000 by falls
- 22,500 at home
- 46,000 in motor car accidents
HAVE YOU EVER PLAYED MADDEN NFL FOOTBALL GAMES?! The man behind the magic is John Madden, a real NFL superstar (Played for the Philadelphia Eagles, coached the Oakland Raiders, commentated for years and has his own video game). Here are some movies that he's appeared in:
Saturday Night Live – 2 episodes
P.K. and the Kid
Little Giants
The Simpsons – 1 episode
Arli$$ – 1 episode
Big Game XXVIII: Road Runner vs. Coyote
The Replacements
Big Gave XXIX: Bugs vs. Daffy
U2: The Best of 1999-2000
ABC’s 50th Anniversary Celebration
G-Phoria
Rebels of Oakland: The A’s, the Raiders, the ’70s
OH YEA!....fun fact...
John Madden has not boarded an airplane since 1979...
Sry Jazzi3J, hope you can afford an $800,000 SUV.
His transport isn't Amtrak or Greyhound. It's the ultimate SUV -- an $800,000, 45-foot luxury coach fitted with everything from sauna to gourmet galley.
He doesn't fly because he had "a full blown panic attack" on an airplane due to claustrophobia.
I love Fun Fact Friday...and statistics.
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