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Then again, you could fall asleep in your bathtub and drown.
Someone once managed to drown in a bowl of cereal, if I remem-
ber right.
Do you remember the then 54-year-old Iowa biker woman
who approached a bison in Custer State Park in South Dakota?
We don't want to be liable for libel,
so we WON'T SUGGEST SHE'D
BEEN DRINKING WINK WINK, but
for whatever reason, she dismounted
from her hog and got real close to a
group of bison, including a mother
and nursing calf. A protective bull
ran at her and somehow got its horn
caught between the woman's belt and
her jeans.
The bison went ape. It thrashed its
massive head, with her attached. She lost
consciousness, and then she lost her pants.
Amazingly, she survived. But if that's how she
had died, what do you think that her biker friends
would have thought about it? Because some part of
me thinks that, even though surely they would have missed her,
and surely there are many people who love her and are glad she's
alive, if she had died her biker friends would have thought it was
a pretty awesome way to go. They'd probably tell the story of how
they watched her duel with a bison and lose for the rest of their
lives in bars and at parties and maybe even at family reunions.
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