Death statistics (things that kill more people than constrictors annually)

In order for this to have meaning, it has to be calculated as a percentage of the people who come into contact with these things.

In other words, obviously people who never go near a constrictor are at virtually 0 risk of ever being killed by a constrictor, so the number has to be calculated against the number of people who actually own or work with giant constrictors, not against the total population.

This should then be compared with the number who own or work with dogs, compared with the number killed by them. (Perhaps it should be limited to large breed dogs, as I'm not aware of any deaths attributed to small breeds).

The higher percentage is the riskier activity.

I believe this has not been done because the result is not as appealing as using the raw numbers, but I believe it must be done, if only for our own knowledge.

Comparisons with less commonly kept animals, such as horses, may be more revealing.

If the percentage does wind up revealing that an unacceptably high number of large constrictor owners are indeed dying, then we should be prepared to face that, and to work on improving education so that the numbers go down.

I have doubts that the percentage will be excessively high, but it is not impossible that it will be revealed that keeping giant snakes is riskier than keeping large dogs.

Either way, someone should do the math properly.

I agree WingedWolfPsion. It would be interesting to know. If someone wants to do the math, that'd be great. Math isn't my subject, however. I just posted these statistics to kind of prove how irrational the fear of large snakes really is. I still think these numbers say a lot, when you consider that as a whole- people who work with large constrictors, people who live in the vicinity of, and people who never have contact with them, that the numbers are still this low. I thought these were some interesting facts, just wanted to share. But I do have to say I'm quite offended by those of you laughing at people killed by vending machines, a dear family member of mine was killed by one, although it was his fault for provoking the machine to attack...................Just kidding.