Bill Bryson, I'm a Stranger Here Myself

Chapter 5 in "I'm a Stranger Here Myself" talks about weird statistics in the United States. This chapter explains how Bill was in a library and comes across a book filled with random stats about injuries in the U.S. and which ones caught his attention. He uses these stats to make fun of how stupid people in the United States can be at times. He also imagines situations where these injuries or events could happen, he does so in a joking matter however. just to show a couple of these ridiculous occurences for example there are 30,274 people each year in the United States whop are injured by paper money of coins. another example is that there are more than 400,000 in the United States each year that are injured by beds, matteresses, or pillows. He then has the realization that he is more likely to be hurt by his matteress or his ceiling than a dangerous person.