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What are the chances that you'll be murdered?

Posted - April 4, 2020

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  • 44173
    0.000131%
      April 4, 2020 9:25 PM MDT
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  • You seem to have thought this out.
      April 4, 2020 9:27 PM MDT
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  • 44173
      April 4, 2020 9:33 PM MDT
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  • 4631
    Extremely low.

    There is no one I know of who hates me or bears me a grudge.

    I live in a rural valley (the largest caldera in the Southern Hemisphere) in which there are 80,000 residents.
    The most recent Australian statistic for murders committed by strangers is 0.95 per 100,000 per year.
    That means my annual chance of being murdered are less than zero.

    I'm 63 and, being healthy, could reasonably expect to live another 30 years.

    If I multiply .95 by 30, I get a chance of 28.5 in 100,000 over 30 years - still so low that I feel no need to worry.

    I'm rarely out and about where there are lots of people; where I live is relatively remote and very private.




    This post was edited by inky at April 6, 2020 6:46 AM MDT
      April 4, 2020 9:30 PM MDT
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  • Good to know.
      April 4, 2020 9:35 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    And the Bears there don't or can't really commit murder as its a human trait and Bears only kill to eat ,plus can't be tried for murder .....
    Unlike America where a tortured female circus Elephant was tried by a  Judge and Jury for the death of a young girl when it rampaged because of its constant beatings...It  was found guilty and sentenced to a public hanging..
    There was no gallows strong enough to do it so the Elephant was taken to a shipyard and hoisted off of the ground by a shipyard Derrick Crane until it died.....The elephant was old an hindered and hundreds of people including childred had a day out to watch to poor abused animil slowly die.....
    Aren't humans a wonderful inhuman race  that pleasure from killing for pleasure...
      April 6, 2020 7:02 AM MDT
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  • 1817
    not high enough 
      April 4, 2020 9:51 PM MDT
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  • 19942
    Considering that I hardly leave my apartment, those chances are pretty low.
      April 4, 2020 9:58 PM MDT
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  • Smart move.
      April 4, 2020 10:11 PM MDT
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  • 52903

      Wait, don’t you know that some people are murdered inside of their own residences?

      April 5, 2020 10:05 PM MDT
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  • 19942
    Of course, but that's because someone follows them in or they open the door to a stranger.  I never enter my building if someone I don't know is waiting at the front entrance.  I either wait for them to be buzzed in or go around to the basement entrance.  Of course, someone else could have let them in, but these days, with so few people going in and out, it's less worrisome.
      April 6, 2020 6:34 AM MDT
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  • 52903

      There’s not always one particular set of circumstances that bring about a particular outcome. The probability that something will happen to you inside your own home is low, sure, and I’m not presupposing any negative situation happens to you, I’m just stating that not every instance of that has occurred because of being followed or allowing someone inside. 
    ~
      April 6, 2020 7:18 AM MDT
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  • 19942
    You are right - you never know when something will happen to you, but I am very cautious, don't open my door unless I know who's there and if it's a delivery, I ask them to leave it at the door.  I try to be very situationally aware and I'm not on my cell phone when walking around.  Thanks for your concern. :)
      April 6, 2020 9:03 AM MDT
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  • 10450
    Well because of the coronavirus I might have to find a new line of work  so I'm thinking of getting back into the cannabis biz which will increase my chances of being murdered a little bit. Cheers and happy weekend!
      April 4, 2020 10:07 PM MDT
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  • Be careful.
      April 4, 2020 10:12 PM MDT
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  • 6988
    My job requires that I travel through the heart of Detroit every night. 
      April 5, 2020 5:51 AM MDT
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  • So 50%?
      April 5, 2020 7:21 AM MDT
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  • 44173
    Yikes. Don't get out of your car.
      April 5, 2020 9:39 AM MDT
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  • 5808
    Called Las Vegas
    to talk to the oddsmakers
    but the line was busy...
      April 5, 2020 9:38 AM MDT
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  • 2217
    It may rise if social disorder breaks out. 
      April 5, 2020 10:26 AM MDT
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  • 13251
    As with everything else in life, there are two possibilities.
      April 5, 2020 10:30 AM MDT
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  • It's not if, but a matter of when.  Had to blast my ILLEGAL ALIEN neighbors again at 3 a.m. with my air raid siren.  
      April 5, 2020 12:14 PM MDT
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  • 52903

      I’ve prepared a list of names for the police to investigate in the event of my demise by homicide:

    (Alphabetically)

    Jaimie (spurned lover resentment)
    Jane S (restraining order frustration)
    Nice Jugs (grammar-anger)
    Sharonna (general purposes)
    Slartiblast (poisonous doses of Vegemite)
    Wakko (owes me $50,000 and doesn’t want to pay)

    And many more . . .

    ~

      April 5, 2020 9:52 PM MDT
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  • 14795
    So ,yore a Copper's Nark an yew'ed grass sas up wood'ja  ...  Grrrrrrrr 
      April 5, 2020 10:04 PM MDT
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