# Things that you're surprised don't happen more often **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 23, 2014, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youre-surprised-dont-happen-more-often/699371 "2014-09-23T20:35:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![UltraVires](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecccb3/32.png) [@UltraVires](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UltraVires)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2014, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youre-surprised-dont-happen-more-often/699371/81 "2014-09-27T23:47:02Z")
At the risk of starting Gun Control Debate XIX, I would add that the existence of shall-issue concealed carry permits has not resulted in shootings over parking spots and line jumping. I approve of law abiding citizens carrying guns, but I would have thought that a few (more than a statistical blip) morons would have shot each other over trivial matters. ---
**Author:** ![staili](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c57346/32.png) [@staili](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/staili)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2014, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youre-surprised-dont-happen-more-often/699371/82 "2014-09-28T02:56:20Z")
People falling onto subway tracks isn’t all that uncommon. 151 people were hit by a subway car in New York City in 2013. Petty theft on the beach or by the pool seems like it should happen all the time. People are in the water and aren’t watching their stuff. It would be so easy for someone else to scoop it up and keep walking. I’m sure it happens but I don’t hear much about it. ---
**Author:** ![CrazyCatLady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@CrazyCatLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrazyCatLady)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2014, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youre-surprised-dont-happen-more-often/699371/83 "2014-09-28T21:16:24Z")
> [@MLS](#): > > Last week my daughter gave birth in the same hospital. I got a pass at the front desk, took the elevator and wandered through the corridors until I found the right section. I had to press a button to gain admission. Presumably there was a security camera somewhere, but I didn’t see it. Nobody checked anything. My sil had a baby a couple years ago, and when we went to visit we had to sign in and say who we were visiting, but that was all monitoring they did on us. However, my niece had an ankle tracker that apparently set off an alarm if you got too close to the exits with her. It stayed on from the time she left the delivery room until about 3 minutes before they left the hospital. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2014, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youre-surprised-dont-happen-more-often/699371/84 "2014-09-28T23:00:37Z")
> [@staili](#): > > Petty theft on the beach or by the pool seems like it should happen all the time. People are in the water and aren’t watching their stuff. It would be so easy for someone else to scoop it up and keep walking. I’m sure it happens but I don’t hear much about it. EXTREMELY common to the point of routine in the Caribbean, I’m like the only person I know who hasn’t had it happen and that is because I’m a crime paranoid gun freak from the USA. “Yea keep walking buddy, you ain’t getting my flip flops today”.🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2014, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youre-surprised-dont-happen-more-often/699371/85 "2014-09-28T23:19:48Z")
Car accidents in parking lots. I am constantly terrified whenever I navigate through the total chaos that is a parking lot; especially the giant lots of large businesses. People drive down lanes, back out of parking spots and just drive in general completely oblivious to the cars around them. I am constantly _this close_ to getting rear ended or rear ending someone else, or side swiping some dumb ass who coasted thru the parking lot stop sign when I have to park in big parking lots. ---
**Author:** ![brix11](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c37758/32.png) [@brix11](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brix11)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youre-surprised-dont-happen-more-often/699371/86 "2014-09-29T13:39:18Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > Its just by good fortune that some things don’t happen with great frequency. I’m a bit taken aback by the amount of negativity in this thread. The fact that we’re not constantly being robbed or maimed is not good fortune. It’s human nature. I don’t think we as a society give enough credit to the notion that, given a choice between right and wrong, the vast majority of us will always do our best to choose the former, especially when that decision has a direct impact on other people. ---
**Author:** ![crucible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@crucible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crucible)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youre-surprised-dont-happen-more-often/699371/87 "2014-09-29T14:40:01Z")
> [@Disposable Hero](#): > > Close, I’m in Northern Ireland. I take it drivers are just as nuts over there. our Scotland tourbus guide was Irish. He said the road situation was every bit as bad in Ireland as in Scotland. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youre-surprised-dont-happen-more-often/699371/88 "2014-09-29T16:48:06Z")
> [@CrazyCatLady](#): > > My sil had a baby a couple years ago, and when we went to visit we had to sign in and say who we were visiting, but that was all monitoring they did on us. However, my niece had an ankle tracker that apparently set off an alarm if you got too close to the exits with her. It stayed on from the time she left the delivery room until about 3 minutes before they left the hospital. When my son was born early 2000s, an electronic tag was put on his belly button stump (sorry, I don’t know what it is called). No one would be able to get him out of the maternity ward - it was like the tags on expensive clothing, or liquor. It was still on him when we went home - and had to sign him out as we passed the front desk, otherwise an alarm would have gone off. When his stump (sorry) fell off, the tag went with it. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youre-surprised-dont-happen-more-often/699371/89 "2014-09-29T16:51:12Z")
> [@brix11](#): > > I’m a bit taken aback by the amount of negativity in this thread. The fact that we’re not constantly being robbed or maimed is not good fortune. It’s human nature. I don’t think we as a society give enough credit to the notion that, given a choice between right and wrong, the vast majority of us will always do our best to choose the former, especially when that decision has a direct impact on other people. That may be mostly true, but it takes only one or two knuckleheads to choose to do wrong to put the rest of us on guard (and imagine negative things happening as a result). ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youre-surprised-dont-happen-more-often/699371/90 "2014-09-29T18:36:02Z")
I’m surprised there weren’t more instances of baby snatching when “Baby On Board” signs were popular. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2014, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youre-surprised-dont-happen-more-often/699371/91 "2014-09-29T20:21:47Z")
> [@Knowed\_Out](#): > > I’m surprised there weren’t more instances of baby snatching when “Baby On Board” signs were popular. Once you’ve snatched a baby what do you do with it? As I recall they need near constant attention and they piss/shit right in their drawers! Then there’s the terrible twos and the eventual expense of college. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-that-youre-surprised-dont-happen-more-often/699371.md?page=4)