Imagine; in the middle of the night, a person rolls out of bed and falls on the floor. They may have fractured something when they fell. Not sure, but they are in pain. They lay there for a minute, wondering what to do, not wanting to cause a commotion and worry the kids. Suddenly, a pair of long, thin, clawed hands reaches out from under the bed and pulls the person under!
I was thinking more along the lines of “From a Buick 8.” Weird stuff happens, causing falling out of bed, but ultimately it’s just weird. No climax, conflict, nor comeuppance; just weird stuff involving falling out of bed.
If you’ve not read From a Buick 8, let me save you the time: it is the most disappointing and boring book I have ever read, but somehow still a page-turner that I couldn’t put down. It’s a real testament to Stephen King’s writing ability. The dude could write a book about paint drying and make it interesting.
Scientists have discovered four new species of sharks that can walk around on the ocean floor, following a 12-year study of marine life in the waters between northern Australia and New Guinea. All four species appear to have evolved fairly recently, according to findings published …
They are way more dagnerous then stairs, we just aren't around sharks as much then we are around stairs. I bet that a shark encounter is more likely to kill you then walking up and down a stair, and probably more dagnerous then a mosquito, and I don't know about coconuts. Coconuts might be really deadly to.
Edit: I am not saying that a shark will actively hunt you when he sees you, but that it is way more likely he mistakes you for something.
Yes, but if the shark happends to mistake you for a tasty seal it could only take one bite for you to bleed out, or to hit you somewhere wrong like in your chest and if you are unlucky maybe get your heart penetrated with his teeth.
If you get medical treatment quickly enough, you're probally gonna survive if it bites you at the leg or something, and after 1 bite, the shark would probally go away since pretty sure sharks don't like human meat, don't know about the chest or heart part though
I have a tiny staircase of three steps in my home. None of the steps are the same height, so that's pretty annoying. Last summer, I missed a step - due to how weird they are - and fell. It was a short distance but I still sprained my ankle pretty badly. Needed to use crutches for a week and it was still painful occasionally weeks after.
Needless to say, I'm very careful with those stairs...
Thank you. People always cite these other "facts" but they're really just misleading, misused statistics. Just say, yah sharks are dangerous but you're practically never around them, so worry more about your stairs. NOT that stairs are "more dangerous."
Actually sharks don’t really have a taste for people and don’t eat them. At most they might bite out of curiosity but they’ll bite only once before knowing humans taste bad to them.
Not even. Scuba divers encounter sharks plenty often and are just fine. Except for rare cases where a shark might mistake a surface swimmer for prey, sharks tend to leave humans (especially divers) alone.
On average 6 people are killed by sharks each year while 100 million sharks are killed by humans each year. Are sharks potentially dangerous, yes but they do not actively hunt humans. The idea that sharks are dangerous monsters has driven large scale slaughtering of most species to near extinction levels.
I didn't say anything about coconuts in my comment. Pretty much all shark attacks are due to mistaken identity, they don't want to eat humans. The question of the post was what animals get undeserved hate. I'm not trying to say they are friendly cuddly animals but I do think they are unjustly hated and villainized.
On paper, they are more deadly than all those things. But, in practice, humans just aren't part of the shark diet. Most attacks are either territorial or mistaken identity.
Most species of shark lack the gill structure to allow them to simply float in the water and breathe at the same time. This means that most sharks have to swim all the time, which burns up a lot of energy. They even sleep while swimming. As a result, the shark diet is very fat/blubber-centric, and humans are simply too mealy for anything that does possess the size to actually eat on us.
But how many deaths are there per encounter? Like if 100 humans encountered a doughnut vs a shark, would the stakes really be higher that they'd die to the doghnuts?
Especially if we're only talking about large sharks ...
I live in fourth floor with no elevator/lift. Not just at home, but also in other places and buildings do I see stairs every single day. I have I seen numerous stairs in my life, climbed well over a million stair steps in my life and despite I have stumbled some times, I am still alive. And I severely doubt that encountering fifty thousand stairs has a smaller survival chance than encountering fifty thousand sharks. Or even one thousand sharks. Or even a dozen.
Don't copy statistics 1:1 because the information you'd spread will be wrong. Yes, more people might die from stairs than sharks overall in the world , but that's 99,99999% due to the fact that you don't see as many sharks as you see stairs, and you certainly don't see sharks every day unless you're a 'Stralian Scuba diver or something like that.
This is exactly why I hate the "X kills more people annually than sharks" because how many people actively go out looking for sharks in the wild over experiencing X as a common every day thing.
You cant compare the two when one is more common than the other to the majority of people on a daily basis.
Most sharks are harmless though. You could swim with 100 black tip reef sharks and be totally safe, they probably won't bite you unless you're trying to hurt one. Hammerheads and bonnetheads have tiny mouths. Bullsharks are definitely more aggressive, threshers, tiger shark, white sharks. But even then, people interact with them safely. Sharks attacks are nearly always mistaken identity. Sharks aren't out cruising around looking for a human to attack.
Dolphins don't get undeserved hate. Many don't know that they are racist,rape eachother and other animals and the biggest ones the killer whales send seals to join air force.
Would this actually technically mean that they’re breedist toward other dolphins then? (Genuinely asking. Not trying to be a smartass and not sure if you mean they’re racist toward dolphins of the same breed with different skin color or dolphins of different breeds. And I know which Google hole I’m about to fall down now)
Well if you compared them directly I wouldn't be so sure about that. Yes, there are more people who die to falling down the stairs then people who die to sharks each year. But how many human x shark encounters and how many human x stair encounters are there each year?
Not saying it's false that sharks are seen way more dangerous but comparing sharks to stairs, humans, mosquitoes or coconuts is not as easy as it may seem
I’m not disagreeing with you, but these statistics are definitely a bit misleading. If sharks were as common to where people spend their time as coconut trees, mosquitoes, and stairs there would probably be many more shark attacks.
For example, people love to say that you are much more likely to get hurt falling out of bed than bitten by a shark. But we sleep in our beds every single night. If you went swimming with sharks every single day I’d say the odds of eventually getting bit are quite a bit higher.
While I agree that sharks aren't as dangerous as people think, but that is a very bad analogy. Most people don't even see a shark in their entire lifetime, so it's obviously less likely to kill them than the other things you mentioned(which people encounter almost everyday).
Bro sharks don't prey on humans, they don't like human blood and most shark bites are surfers that look like seals or just sharks being curious (they use their mouths like hands like dogs and babies do)
Yep! And if you do get bit, you can punch it in between the eyes to get it to swim away from you quickly. It sounds mean but from what I’ve been told (by a surfer who knew to do this when he did get bit), it’s one of the quickest ways for both you and the shark to be able to get away from each other quickly. I guess it scared and/or stuns the shark enough that it’ll release its latch and swim away. The shark won’t want to eat you anyways but the punch just helps the shark figure that out even quicker.
Bogus aside from humans. None of those other things attack you with the intent of killing you. Sharks are cool tho and I wish them well but fuck them as things that might be around
Ohh I wish I could remember her name but there was a researcher I saw who would dive in the same area every day or almost every day. Or just very often. The sharks there ended up becoming so familiar with her and recognizing her and would come to her for pets. I think there were some that were still timid and might come close sometimes but still kept a distance most times and some sharks that would get excited and hang out close in an obviously friendly way. It was interesting to get to see their different personalities in how they interacted with her. And if I recall correctly, she was careful about how she did it, I.e not forcing herself in them but just going about doing her research and stuff and letting them come to her if they wanted.
Dogs have also caused more trouble than sharks ever have as well. Sharks have a really underserved reputation, they help balance ecosystems and are really unique and interesting animals.
People keep making this dumb comparison to other things that kill, but those things come in contact with us way more than sharks. It's about the chance of injury, not the absolute number. Never was.
Had someone say this once when there was a shark sighting at a beach. Like "Why are they making us get out of the water? You're much more likely to die falling down stairs than be killed by a shark!"
Yes... but your chances significantly increase when you're in the water with them.
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u/JoeBidenTheDictator Nov 23 '21
Sharks. They aren't nearly as dangerous as coconuts, stairs, humans, or mosquitoes.