The World's Most Dangerous Jobs

The Omaha Bugle-Global News Network

Adam and Jeff acknowledge that their office jobs which require them to labor under harsh florescent lighting and bear the discomfort of irregular air-conditioning cycles are, surprisingly, not among the most dangerous jobs in the world. Indeed, the U.S. government has published a survey that states the top U.S. job in terms of deaths per 100,000 workers is logging, followed by fishing and hunting. Jeff points out that the perils of logging are accentuated by the fact that very big trees can fall on loggers who happen to be standing in the wrong place at the wrong time. Fishers, by contrast, can be hit by swinging crab pots or whipsawing winch lines or simply fall overboard. However, these jobs are a walk in the park compared to that of the Russian oligarch, whose members frequently die under what cynical individuals would consider to be "suspicious" circumstances such as falling out of hotel windows, dying from drug-induced heart attacks, hangings, and suicides involving dozens of gunshot wounds.