Shark Attack

A 14-year-old girl was killed by a shark in Florida yesterday, which of course is all over the news. I'm hoping the news-starved media don't start with the "Summer of the Shark" stories like in 2001, when the number of shark attacks was...uh, two fewer than the previous year.

Interesting statistics about shark attack:

Average number of people killed in the U.S. per year by:

• deer: 130 (automobile collision)
  
• lightening strike: 90
  
• dogs: 18
  
• sharks: 0.4
  

U.S. injuries (1996) involving:

• toilets: 43,687
  
• buckets and pails: 10,907
  
• room deodorizers: 2,599
  
• toilet bowl cleaning products: 1,567
  
• sharks: 13