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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNYT Dec. 2015 The odds of a person in S. Korea being shot is the same as an American being ...
... killed by a boulder rolling off a mountain or being crushed by something
like a dumpster.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/05/upshot/in-other-countries-youre-as-likely-to-be-killed-by-a-falling-object-as-a-gun.html
The odds of a person getting shot in Japan is the same as an American being killed
by lightening.
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Botany
Nov 2017
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rogerashton
(3,920 posts)1. I got run over by a dumpster, once.
It was in a football riot in about 1963.
Orrex
(63,185 posts)4. So, you were refused?
rogerashton
(3,920 posts)10. Yes, pretty routinely,
and I also got run over by a dumpster.
Not Ruth
(3,613 posts)2. Correlation with suicide
S Korea has the second highest suicide rate in the world. Japan is up there too.
MrsCoffee
(5,801 posts)6. Surely that's due to a lack of guns.....
pangaia
(24,324 posts)3. Japanese eat more sashimi and Koreans more bibimbop.
Botany
(70,476 posts)5. Bulgogi and Kim Chee too.
But at the end of the day our gun shootings numbers are tragic.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)7. Don't forget..
Samgyeopsal and Seolleongtang and.......... Banchan, all those tasty little side dishes.
UMM.... gotta go back soon.....
Botany
(70,476 posts)8. My favorite Korean restaurant has this as a side dish
pangaia
(24,324 posts)9. Pickled? Looks like it....
umm yummy...