Quote Originally Posted by Bicyclette
I just read that too - about the milk - I read that if you're taking milk for your baby you have to have someone who will sample it.

Would I fly to London today?? NO!!! but then I won't fly anyday if I don't have to - I hate, hate, hate to fly - not because of terrorist incidents but because of crashing - I'm abdolutely phobic - so much so that my husband and I are discussing a transatlantic cruise for the next time we go back to the states
I was just reading the August copy of National Geographic and they have an interesting article on Ways to Go. Its stats on what holds the greatest chance of ending your life (macabre I know). Well Bicycling accidents are in there but they dont really rate much higher than Air/space accident. Here are a few of the stats.

Bicycling accident 1 in 4,919

Air/space 1 in 5,134

Pedestrian accident 1 in 626 (beware crossing the street)

Lightning 1 in 79,746

Falling 1 in 218

Fireworks discharge 1 in 340,733 (your pretty safe on the 4th of July)

Drowning 1 in 1,008

This little stat was at the top of the article "Total odds of dying, any cause 1 in 1"

Check the article out - some of the stats did suprise me.