I know that you are more likely to get struck by lightning, but I can stay indoors when it's lightning, yet I have no real warning when a shark is in the water. There have been 19 attacks in North Carolina between 1990 and 2004, 2 of them fatal. I don't know how many since then, probably only a couple. So you are right in that it is senseless to worry. However, in this case the media was simply doing their job. Notifying the public. If it wasn't in the paper or the news then they would get hit with not notifying the public of a risk - albeit a rare but known risk (except for tourists who probably have no idea in general). Besides, I hate sharks!



>>Sheesh. This gives me the creeps. I was just at the beach last weekend...
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>>http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id=267765
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>Aw come on Tracy. Every time I read about shark bites somewhere, it happens sporadically, I always think about a) how the press overblows things to sell more, and b) how most people are statistical-dummies (not you of course :)
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>They tell you that this boy got bitten. Jaws sells.
>They do not tell you how rare they are. They do not tell you that at the same time a million other people on the beach did not get bitten. Odds are huge against it. Let's be realistic.