Hacker News Reader

I did not hear about the Burmese python strangling the 2 year-old...

As a father of a 20 month old, this might be the most traumatized I've ever been by news story.

Edit: Thanks a ton for the links to the other dead kid stories.

You missed all the stories about toddlers killed by dogs?

4.5 - 4.7 million people are bitten by dogs each year? Yikes. Need to reconsider my reaction to my 2 YO's fear of dogs.

Surely some of those bites are either provoked or the dog biting a family member, that number is just amazing.

True, but there are 7 billionish people, so that's only about one person in 2000.