Quite Unusual?

[lsanderson]

Breaking News from ABCNEWS.com:

Four Americans Aboard Hijacked Yacht Killed by Pirates, U.S. Military Reports [9:20 a.m. ET]

You'd think that would be right up there as cause of death with meteor strikes and lightening...

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[dd-b.livejournal.com]

Lightning kills 58 people a year, they say. Putting it in a different category than meteor strikes, I think (though one big one in the wrong place could certainly change the numbers).