Got a ticket in towing a trailer in the middle lane

Mahi Mahi,

Thanks for the cover, brother.

Most perilous jobs

According to the BLS, the following jobs had the highest fatality rates for 2006:

Fishers and related fishing workers
Fatality rate (per 100,000 workers): 141.7
Number of fatalities: 51
Average salary: $19,104

Aircraft pilots and flight engineers
Fatality rate (per 100,000 workers): 87.8
Number of fatalities: 101
Average salary: $129,250

Logging workers
Fatality rate (per 100,000 workers): 82.1
Number of fatalities: 64
Average salary: $22,320

Structural iron and steel workers
Fatality rate (per 100,000 workers): 61.0
Number of fatalities: 36
Average salary: $39,168

Refuse and recyclable material collectors
Fatality rate (per 100,000 workers): 41.8
Number of fatalities: 38
Average salary: $23,770

Farmers and ranchers
Fatality rate (per 100,000 workers): 37.1
Number of fatalities: 291
Average salary: $15,603

Electrical power-line installers and repairers
Fatality rate (per 100,000 workers): 34.9
Number of fatalities: 38
Average salary: $45,331

Roofers
Fatality rate (per 100,000 workers): 33.9
Number of fatalities: 82
Average salary: $28,474

Driver/sales workers and truck drivers
Fatality rate (per 100,000 workers): 27.1
Number of fatalities: 940
Average salary: $30,931 (for heavy or tractor-trailer drivers)

Miscellaneous agricultural workers
Fatality rate (per 100,000 workers): 21.7
Number of fatalities: 158
Average salary: $24,140

So Mike, how many of the above listed "Most perilous jobs" require the worker put his/her life in peril for someone they don't know. And what are the suicide rates of those "Most perilous jobs" you have listed? I know two of my partners shot them selfs in the head last year, and that's just the ones I work with. It doesn't include the ones who drink them selfs to death dealing with everyone else's problems, in addition with there own.

Not to start a fight, but jwsmith....you are ignorant! I don't even remember who started this thread, but get over it! You violated the law and got a ticket. BIG DEAL! How may time since the last time you got a ticket have you violated the law and not gotten a ticket. I'm going to bet that the answer is EVERY DAY, just like everyone else.

Uh oh, Nicholson is tearing somebody else a new one. Glad it wasn't me this time!

Those statistics also don't include another danger for law enforcement: post traumatic stress disorder.  They may not die if they don't commit suicide, but their lives are impaired or ruined. Every time a cop does a traffic stop, he has to consider the possibility that some asshole will take a shot at him. Not exactly relaxing.

So Mike, how many of the above listed "Most perilous jobs" require the worker put his/her life in peril for someone they don't know. And what are the suicide rates of those "Most perilous jobs" you have listed?

No idea Dan the list is from the Bureau of Labor Statistics I was surprised that Police and Fire weren't on there and not surprised that truck drivers were at the speeds they run in an 80,000lb vehicle with 1,000,000 miles or more on them.Also surprised that guys Commie Fish for 20K.

a buddy of mine is PD and I have relatives in law enforcement, military, fire, hell even a smoke jumper nephew.  Also a defense attorney in the family.  Holidays are umm interesting.  I regularly give them flak, but seriously the problem in this thread seems to be the problem with police work in general.  It literally has two faces.

the bottom line is what I would run the hell away from, they run to.  Everyone one of us would kiss their feet if we found ourselves in a bad situation and they show up, like the cavalry coming to the rescue.  BUT we all look in the mirror going 80 and curse our misfortune and wish they were somewhere else.  So we only want them around when we need them, and want them to dissappear the rest of the time.  This is a nasty mindset.

In my younger days I was a convience store clerk on the swing and grave shifts in a not so nice area of San Jose, and I can say I was never more relaxed than when the duputies came in for coffee and muffins.  They never bought donuts though.  Go figure.