Some call it error rate. Nothing is 100%. The chart below from Paul Kedrosky's site was highly illuminating and sardonically funny as well. There is a 1 in 9 occurrence of medical prescription error, now thats worrying. Vasectomy failure rate at 1 in 150, hmmm.
When you look at the media-frenzied Firestone tyres recall, the actual failure rate wasn't that scary, just 1 in 5,000 - see what the media hype can do, scare the juices out of you. What's comforting is that flying commercial airlines will only kill you once every 4.5 million flight you take. Technically that is striking the RM1m lottery. Do you feel lucky?
The second part of the heading has to do with suicidal coincidences, how often do you ever get to hear that two words together? This again shows that truth is stranger than fiction. A broken-hearted young man decided to throw himself off a bridge in Russia. He climbed up a tall one and spotted a young woman doing the same thing. They climbed down together. Now Andriej Ivanov, 26, is due to marry Maria Petrova, 21.
Devastated Andriej Ivanov, 26, wanted to end it all when his fiancée died in a car crash the day before they were due to get married. But when he arrived at the bridge — in Ufa, central Russia — he found Maria Petrova climbing over the railings.
Maria, 21, had been thrown out by her parents for falling pregnant and was seconds from throwing herself more than 100ft into the icy Belaya River when Andriej rescued her.
He said: "Something in my heart snapped and I couldn't let her do it no matter how broken my own heart was.
"I shouted, 'Stop' and ran over to her. She fell into my arms sobbing and I began crying too.
"We held each other and talked, and talked and talked. That night saved my life - and hers."
The couple talked into the night and agreed to help each other mend their broken hearts. Now they plan to get married after telling their families about how they met.
Maria said: "He is my knight and my saviour. All that pain was worthwhile because it led me to my Andriej."
Unbelievable, and I am very sure we will see this being made into a movie (may I suggest Robert Downey Jr and Lindsay Lohan as the leads).
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