Death In America

[sunny-dave]

Those lawnmowers ...

https://s1.postimg.org/8tzuk290a7/22140936_10155055673222339_3089684934710481107_n.jpg

[albaqwerty]

I daren't ask about an armed toddler on a lawnmower..

[Patsy33]

Oohh I know Dave! Mowing down anything that's gets in its way!

[jno]

From Twitter (in fact the New York Times):

Number of Americans killed on battlefields in all wars in history: 1,396,733
Killed by firearms in the US since 1968:
1,516,863

[bookbinder]

At the risk of seeming to be a bit slow, I must ask this; how does someone get killed by a lawnmower? A mower doesn't exactly creep up on its victim.

[Bazile]

You might come off worse , if you walk in front of one , bookbinder , especially the turbo charged , ride on ones

[jno]

an Islamist might hit you over the head with one.

Some of them are big, ride-on ones that could easily knock over a child, for instance

https://www.reiffandbily.com/lawnmower-deaths-catastrophic-injuries-new-jersey-pennsylvania/

[pixie374]

According to Bill Bryson, one year 142,000 Americans needed emergency treatment for injuries caused by their clothing.
What more can you say?

[albaqwerty]

heard about that earlier jno, it's hair-raising scary.

Bookie, they, the electric ones, will lasso you with their cable and then, well.....

[bookbinder]

Well, alba, it's to be hoped that they don't wrestle their victim to the ground and then use a branding iron.

[-Talbot-]

I wondered how the deaths from Islamic terrorists could be so low ... then I espied the small-print. What's the 16 year average?