At 11:28 AM 2/9/2009, Roger Whittaker wrote...
>comparing the death rate from lightening which strikes randomly and
>often
>with out warning with the death rate from choices made is flawed

No warning? Lightning from clear skies is pretty rare. Although there's
probably someone, somewhere, who is the exception, I think most people
can recognize a thunderstorm before it's on top of them, or can access
a weather forecast.

"Males are killed 4.6 times as often as females," and "the same studies
showed that males in their twenties are the most frequent victims of
lightning" -
http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/papers/techmemos/NWS-SR-193/techmemo-sr193-10.html

Those statistics hardly reflect random, unexpected events, but poor
choices.