Did You Know? (Beware of Vending Machines)

That according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission there were 37 known vending machine fatalities between 1978 and 1995, for an average of 2.18 deaths per year? Over the past decade there were a total of six recorded shark attack fatalities in the U.S., for an average of .6 deaths per year.  Therefore, barring a drastic reduction in the frequency of vending machine fatalities since 1995, vending machines are more deadly than sharks by a factor of almost four, and that doesn’t take into consideration deaths caused by eating the junk that comes out of them.  So swim freely this summer without fear, but beware of those vending machines! Today also happens to be Administrative Assistant Day (I remember when it used to be called Secretary Day), so if you are an Administrative Assistant and your boss asks you to get him or her something from the vending machine, show them this and tell them to get it themselves, or give you hazard pay.

E.J. Lefavour

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