# of members of Anthrax who are hoarding Cipro so as to avoid an ironic death: 1

[CptStern]

harpers index is awesome:

Number of members of the rock band Anthrax who say they are hoarding Cipro so as to avoid an “ironic death”: 1

lol



Minimum number of cats fitted with high-tech listening equipment in a 1967 CIA project: 1

Estimated number of minutes after the cat was released on its first test run that it was killed by a taxi: 10


Speed, in miles per hour, of pitches hurled at the heads of human cadavers last year in tests of a new, safer baseball: 70

O_O


Chances that a U.S. police chief believes the death penalty “significantly reduces the number of homicides”: 1 in 4

Number of studies showing that the death penalty is a deterrent, according to Attorney General Janet Reno: 0

Chances that the rate in a state without the death penalty was lower than the national average: 5 in 6

http://www.harpers.org/index/?q=death

 

[kupocake]

Number of cows killed in drive-by shootings in Clay County, Missouri, last year: 5

Gonna bust a cap in yo' ass too.

 

[Krynn72]

Months that a Louisiana state judge was suspended for wearing an Afro wig and blackface to a Halloween party last year: 6

Percentage of the bars that charged black customers more than white customers: 40

Number of men ticketed for indecent exposure in Opelousas, Louisiana, last year for wearing low-riding pants: 14

Number of months last spring that a Louisiana town’s sewage lines were connected to its fresh water supply: 3

Hours for which New Orleans’s airport was partly evacuated in February over a package later found to contain gumbo: 5

Number of body bags a New Orleans suburb secured for this year’s hurricane season: 10,000

Days after Katrina hit that the first strip club was reopened in New Orleans: 20

Percentage change since Katrina in the number of New Orleans residents on food stamps and welfare, respectively: –51, –73

Days after Hurricane Katrina hit that Cheney’s office ordered an electric company to restore power to two oil pipelines: 1

Days after the hurricane that the White House authorized sending federal troops into New Orleans: 4

This site makes me even more sad about where I live.

 

[Acepilotf14]

Number of deaths in America, since 1981, caused by vending machines having fallen on people who shook them: 8

Number of live bees spilled onto a Las Vegas highway in December: 22,400,000
Estimated percentage that were subsequently foamed to death: 100

 

[Krynn72]

Average weight of a Chinese man’s testicles (in grams): 19.01

Of a Dane’s: 42

Amount a Rhode Island man received in a settlement last year over his faulty penile implant: $400,000

Number of years he has had an erection: 10

Ratio of the size of the female spider monkey’s clitoris to the size of the male monkey’s penis: 2:1

Price in South Africa next year of a latex vaginal insert that latches onto a rapist’s penis and requires surgical removal: 35¢