"Guy Macon" http://www.guymacon.com wrote in message
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CW says...

Better not open your door or have someone else open theirs next
to yu then. That dome light switch might get you.



The Petroleum Equipment Institute reports that there have been 150
US pump fires in the last 10 years. (fires, not deaths. Most pump
fires don't kill anyone) Compare that to the roughly 500,000 auto
accident deaths, roughly 500,000 medical error deaths, and roughly
300,000 influenza deaths during that same period.

people have strange ideas of what constitutes a risk, your stats being a
good example. Tumours from cellphones is a doozy, especially when the people
with the cellphones are using them while driving kinetic weapons carrying
20-50L of highly flammable dreadfully toxic petrol.

I have seen pictures of a static-triggered fire (utterly destroyed a newish
mitsy station wagon) at a BP in Hamilton, NZ, on the counter. No suggestions
about how to avoid it of course.

A similar effect shows up with occupational safety - people have a level of
risk with which they are happy. Make something safer, and people do more
dangerous things. The example I recall is fall arresters used on
scaffolding - after all staff were required to use (re-usable, not one-shot)
fall arrestors, injuries at one firm in NZ went UP, because staff were
playing silly buggers all the time and leaping off the scaffolding for
fun.......