Max's wager

James Heartfield Jim at heartfield.demon.co.uk
Sun Nov 4 00:41:53 PST 2001


In message <Pine.NEB.4.40.0111032126470.23852-100000 at panix2.panix.com>, Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> writes


>Agreeing with much of the reasoning in your last few posts, and following
>the path of Liebling's _Honest Rainmaker_, I'm willing to bet that fewer
>people will die of as a result of Islamic-hued terrorism inside the
>continental US in the next 10 years than will be struck by lightening.

The National Weather Service publication Storm Data recorded 3,239 deaths from lightning strikes between 1959 and 1994, or 95 deaths per year

-- James Heartfield



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