pit bull propaganda machine is cranking 'em out

pit bull positive writes:

"You people are morons do the math lets just say theres roughly 38,000 "pit bulls" in the United States ok and theres 38 "fatal attacks" thats a whopping 1%. More people are killed by falling coconuts per year than there are killed by "pit bulls". More crazy people with far too much time on there hands who only want to create hysteria and be part of the problem instead of working towards a solution. Brilliant work here!"

more crazy pit nutters with more crazy lies. earlier today it was the small dog syndrome, now it is falling coconuts.

Dr. Peter Barss wrote a Nobel Prize winning article for the Journal of Trauma entitled "Injuries Due to Falling Coconuts." The article reported on nine injuries in Papua New Guinea due to falling coconuts, none fatal. Several victims suffered fractured skulls, were rendered comatose, etc.

Barss provides an anecdotal account of one such death and in a separate paper estimates that over a four-year period five deaths in his hospital's service area were related to coconut palm trees (including climbers falling out of them). A recent report (Mulford et al, "Coconut Palm-Related Injuries in the Pacific Islands," ANZ Journal of Surgery, January 2001), which describes itself as "the largest review of coconut-palm related injuries," also reports no deaths and on the question of mortality merely cites Barss.

even if coconuts did kill more people, so what? lightening, bees, snakes, sharks, jellyfish, hippos, crocodiles, earthquakes, hurricanes, extreme heat, extreme cold, tsunamis, tornados, kill more people, so what? what do natural disasters and freak accidental deaths by nature have to do with a man made, man controlled fighting dog?

just how desperate or stupid are you people?