[mensforyouthis]

I was joking yesterday about dangerous sports, and said that bowling was probably the deadliest... I looked up statistics today out of curiosity, and found this article:

http://takenforranted.com/bowling-deaths-double-56/


Industry critics charge that the industry response has not gone far enough. A spokesman for the Citizen’s Ad Hoc Committee for Bowling Safety (CAHCBS) refuted Karlin’s contentions. “The bowling industry has swept this under the rug for long enough because they don’t want to spend the money to make the lanes safe” said Terry Withers, brother of last year’s victim Chris Withers. “It’s time that the industry step up to the plate with motion-controlled power cutoffs in the pin setting machines, with hand guards on the ball returns, and bowling shoes with anti-bacterial linings. If they are unwilling to do so, we will have to take this to our state and federal legislators and impose a legislative solution, and nobody really wants that.” Mr. Withers said that according to CAHCBS calculations, if deaths continue to double every year, in 12 years, deaths due to bowling and bowling equipment will outnumber deaths on our nation’s highways. “It may not seem like much, but at the current rate, we’re on pace for eight deaths this year, 16 next year, 32 the year after that and 32,768 deaths twelve years from now. That should worry every parent, every consumer, every bowler” Withers said.

[stunnyravytal]

ROFL..

[adactthrd]

if 32,768 people manage to die in bowling related accidents I think I would chalk that one up to natural selection.

I am going to go ahead and throw out some random statistics that says at least 32,760 of those will be directly related to alcohol and/or drug use during midnight bowling and leagues. At least 50% will be a result of teenagers out past curfew, and another 25% as a result of elderly bowlers driving through the front entrance of the bowling alley after accidentally putting their cars in drive instead of reverse. based these startling statistics is obvious we should ban anyone under the age of 21 for being immature, 21-45 for being raging alcoholics/drug addicts, and the elderly (60+) for inability to drive, possible cardiac reasons, and possible erections lasting for more than 4 hours when taking Viagra. Those remaining eligiable will only be allowed to bowl after a complete training course on proper use of a ball return system, weekly drug test, and 30 day waiting period between bowling sessions to avoid the risk of possible forearm cramp related death.