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And I have the stats to back it up:

1992-1998 USA

Fatal Shark Attacks: 3

Fatal Large Round Hay Bale Attacks: 42

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Sources:

http://tinyurl.com/4cebn

http://tinyurl.com/4tp24

http://tinyurl.com/57n4p ("unwitnessed" the key word here)

http://tinyurl.com/3s3l9 (again, the guy was alone...I say the bale saw the opportunity and pounced...)

[Note: my deepest sympathies (and apologies) go out to anyone whose family/friends were killed by either large round hay bales or sharks - I'm not trying to mock death, merely extending my killer large round hay bale mythology*.]

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*I went to university here in Lincoln, Nebraska - Nebraska is one of those large square-ish farming states that is driven through on the way to go skiing in Colorado or Utah. My roommate my freshman year grew up in Shaker Heights, Ohio. One weekend I took her to my hometown, Holdrege. Along I-80 one can see hundreds of these large round hay bales; apparently she had not ever seen one before and remarked on them. I then mentioned that, yeah they are pretty cool looking, but people actually get killed by those every year, meaning farm worker accidents (see http://tinyurl.com/56hjh for all sorts of tragic farm accident stories). She somehow thought I meant the bales got on the highway and killed folks that way. I've always gotten the giggles from picturing those bales sneaking up onto the road and doing away with folks, like some really bad 60s horror movie (hey, that gives me an idea...I've got a digital video camera...there are hay bales all over the place out here...hmmmmm....mwahahahahahahahhaha! ;-). So, ever since then (1982) I've been calling them "killer hay bales" and I photograph them at nearly every opportunity I get. I was recently informed that their proper name is "large round hay bales", hence the current "killer large round hay bales" moniker.