It was recently brought to my attention by our good friends over at the Huffington Post, that the current economic downturn has had some surprising ancillary effects on other aspects of our lives. Specifically, a dramatic decrease in shark attacks.
I repeat, shark attacks.
In fact, shark attacks are currently at lowest they’ve been in five years world wide. Apparently there is some very simple logic that can be used to explain this phenomenon; when the economy is bad, people go to the beach less, therefor less of them get eaten by sharks. The simplicity of it all is astounding, yet I never would have come to that conclusion on my own.
This got me thinking, what other seemingly unrelated occurrences could be attributed to the economy. After some good ole thinkin’ time, I created the following list. (Note this list was not made with “science” or “facts” but my own brain logic)
- The global disappearance of bees is actually due to the housing market crash and that many of bees homes have been foreclosed.
- The cancellation of ABC’s Pushing Daisies was in fact caused by a lack of government subsidies for the American Association of Daisy Farmers.
- The reason we’ve yet to invent Cylons is because of budget constraints, not that we don’t have the technology, or that creating intelligent killer-robots is a bad idea.
- My parents kicked me out of their house because they couldn’t afford to support me anymore, not because I was stealing their prescriptions and selling them on eBay.
- The real reason TV networks picked up crap shows like Night Rider for a second season is because creating new pilots is expensive… that’s actually true.
So remember, the next time you find yourself thinking, “Why is my dog biting the mailman?” or “Why is my toast burnt?” just blame the economy.