It is no laughing matter, but The Onion does its best to make fun of risk management. They do an amazingly thorough job pulling up the best habits of reporters in the mainstream press — drama, statistics as well as potential remedies are duly noted:

In addition to increasing public awareness of deaths caused by falling down a laundry chute and severing the spinal cord, Baron suggested several direct precautionary measures. These include keeping a hamper full of extra pillows at the bottom of laundry chutes at all times, placing large, easy-to-read warning placards around chute openings, and moving to a house without a laundry chute.

“Until someone comes up with a safer means of conveying dirty laundry from the top floor of a house to its basement, this is the reality we have to live with,” Baron said.

Cute. Watch out FOX News, The Onion is cutting in on your territory here.

I can’t wait for the book.