A 33-year-old Korean man was found dead on November 28, apparently killed by a cell phone battery explosion. The cell phone was made by LG Electronics.The man, identified only by his family name, Sur, was found dead by his co-workers at a quarry in North Chungcheong Province where he was employed as a shovel operator.
I gave the officers sitting behind the info desk at The Galleria Mall some Gospel tracts; they gave me some tracts of their own containing interesting information that will keep you from being buried 6 feet under during the holidays:
DID YOU KNOW IN CALIFORNIA:
In total, over 3,906 family members, friends & co-workers are killed and 303,102 are injured annually in traffic collisions due to traffic violations.
Over 542 family members, friends & co-workers are killed and 87,095 are injured annually in traffic collisions due to speeding violations.
If only poor ole Santa paid attention when he had the chance last year!
BY RAY COMFORT
Charles Spurgeon said that people can be taught to live by being reminded that they have to die. That’s true. Every sane human being has a will to live, and it’s an often-forgotten tool by which we may reason with them. So, here’s some feathers for your evangelistic arrows:
Every year around 90,000 people die in hospitals–from medical mistakes. That is one American dies in a hospital from a medical error or a lethal infection every six minutes. Medical blunders are the eighth leading cause of death in the United States. A horrifying 43,443 died in car accidents in one year–one American is killed by a traffic accident every 12 minutes. That may make you want to stay home. Think again. One American is killed in an accident at home every 29 minutes–that’s an annual total of over 18,000 deaths. One American is accidentally poisoned to death every 27 minutes (19,457). Falls killed 17,227 people back in 2004–that is, one every 31 minutes. One American is killed by a drunk driver every 31 minutes (16,885). Murders are down since the 1990’s (unless Hollywood has succeeded in teaching more people how to disguise murder). One American is murdered every 32 minutes. According to the FBI 17,034 people were murdered in 2006.
One more to cheer you up: Every 30 seconds, a woman somewhere in the world gives birth to a child. She must be found and stopped. [He’s kidding…] —From Comfort Food, used with permission.
Here are the sources of the stats:
Sudden Deaths: Exit Stage Left
To give a horrible performance in the theater is to die on stage; to actually die on stage is whole ‘nother matter entirely: Moliere: The 17th century French playwright and actor collapsed during the performance of one of his plays. He had a coughing fit, was carried home, and promptly died. The name of the
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