Have you ever killed someone ?

I havent. But I remember an old headmaster saying to my year at school that statistically one of would be murdered.. Just got me thinking..

He must have been a fun headmaster!

😯

How many were in your year?

I think there was about 250 in my High School year intake.

Which means, according to your tutors statistic, 1 in 250 people will be murdered to death.

4 in every 1000 … sounds like quite a high proportion

I shared a tent with 2 killers when I was in the Scouts. The pair of them went on to murder 3 people. They’d got away with the first one they smothered with a pillow and it was only when they did the same to a husband and wife that the first death was looked at again.

murdered to death.

Is there any other outcome???

rate in uk is 1.23 per 100,000 per year.

so if you live for 70 years do we say chances would (1.23*70) per 100000 = 86.1 per 100,000 = 1 in 1161 ??

You’ll note that Hora hasn’t posted anything all day. That’s all I’m prepared to say on the matter

Is there any other outcome???
of course there is.

1 in 250 people will be murdered to death

what’s the stats on how many go into the forces and become paid murderers? Maybe he means that.

No I’ve not murdered anyone…but have wanted to a few times.

well, the OP seems to be confusing being murdered with committing murder?

there’s less murderers than victims.

No, but my dad dealt with the life insurance of a lady who was smothered by her husband. He says that he dreamt he was a p.o.w in Japan and she was a guard. He got off.

of course there is.

Oh, no there isn’t 😉

eg, only being “half” murdered to death would be attempted murder, surely?

Was he a maths teacher? I reckon a murder rate of 1:100,000 means there is statistically only a very small chance of a class of 30 being murdered, maybe only 3% if my maths is right.

I did work closely with someone that was murdered though, poor lass http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2007/jun/04/ukcrime

I shared a tent with 2 killers when I was in the Scouts.

I shared a tent with a killer when I was in the Scouts, too. He beat his mother to death with a wine bottle, because she wouldn’t let him borrow the car.

The statistic at the beginning of “Boyz n the Hood” suggests (IIRC) 1:21 black American men is murdered (or they were in 1991) which I think is utterly horrific.

Right thats it i’m pulling my son out of Scouts, he statistically will grow up n kill me to death. Threads only 14 posts long and already 2 examples of this…….i better show him more respect. 😆

Scouts is clearly a hotbed of murderisors. I suspect this wasn’t what Baden-Powell had in mind

there’s less murderers than victims.

There’d have to be, really.

[tj voice]

but this isn;t a representative sample, it’s anecdote.

you need to look at what percentage of ex-scouts become murderers vs a similar cross section of non-scouts in the same population.

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There’d have to be, really.

actually, you often see 2 or 3 people convicted of the same murder so maybe I’m wrong.

I wonder what the number of victims per convicted murderer is. I think it may be less than 1.

I was murdered last week. Does that count?

Scouts is clearly a hotbed of murderisors.

Statistics get skewed because they get caught more easily; people dob dob dob them in.

I suspect this wasn’t what Baden-Powell had in mind

Quite the contrary – I believe the intention was to constitute a structured, disciplined, quasi-military organisation to supplement the Armed Forces. About the time of WW1 wasn’t it, so good reason to have a training ground for the next crop of fodder 🙁

I was murdered last week. Does that count?

You weren’t murdered, it was a heart attack in your Californian home.

Good work in the Monkees, though..

* Doffs hat to Cougar. Olympic level punning there! *

Not yet….give me time though.

Think I might have killed lots of people but I somehow manage to suppress the memory. For a few years anytime I travelled anywhere on work there would be headlines about gruesome murders there in the press just as I got home. Its been a running joke with my GF that if any job comes up that involves a few nights in a travelodge then there will be blood!

I’m just home from another trip so if any bad murders have been done in Maidstone, Stoke on Trent, St Helens or Blackpool in the last few days then they’re probably my fault

I could murder a drink right now….

DrP

*also stands and applauds cougar*

Well, I could tell you, but then I’d have to – you know…

Right thats it i’m pulling my son out of Scouts, he statistically will grow up n kill me to death. Threads only 14 posts long and already 2 examples of this…….i better show him more respect.

Its probably too late for that, you’d better kill him before he gets you first 🙂

Yes, top joke there Cougar

“there’s less murderers than victims.”
There’d have to be, really.

Not necessarily – see avdave2’s example above.

I was in the Scouts

maccruiskeen – was there an incident in the past involving straying off the path on a moonlit night on the moors?

Its probably too late for that, you’d better kill him before he gets you first

Bigbloke goes off to lay in wait for his son returning home from school…….KATO Style!!!!!!!

I was in the scouts and as far as I know I haven’t murdered anyone yet.

Out of interest does the murder rate go up when it’s ‘bob a job’ week?

The statistic at the beginning of “Boyz n the Hood” suggests (IIRC) 1:21 black American men is murdered (or they were in 1991) which I think is utterly horrific.

Freakenomics[/url] did and interesting program on Suicide and how rates vary in different populations – people who live at great risk of death -in famine effected areas for instance don’t tend to commit suicide, the instinct to survive over-rides any suicidal thoughts. In the US white people commit suicide and black people get murdered – and why that is the case is quite interesting and has a lot to do with where people place the blame for their unhappiness.

maccruiskeen – was there an incident in the past involving straying off the path on a moonlit night on the moors?

What? You accusing me of riding cheeky trails?

He should have been a headmaster at my school where one of the pupils was murdered in the playground. Terrible business. The guy that did it was another pupil and ended up dying in prison a few years later.

Depends where you live. Glasgow’s murder rate is around three times the UK average. In the year to March 2011 there was 26 murders in Glasgow. The population is just under 600’000 so roughly 4 murders per 100’000.

There are big variations is risk in different areas of Glasgow. Some areas will have a murder rate around 10 per 100’000 a year. Or 1:10’000 per year. For a year of 200 pupils in a big school that is a 1:50 chance per year.

So over a 50 year lifespan after they left school one would be killed statistically.

So for schools in a few areas of Glasgow the statement would be correct. Almost anywhere else in the UK outside a few other inner city areas it won’t be.