Thursday, September 21, 2017

plastic bag PSA

Fatalities by suffocation through misuse of plastic bags are on the increase, I imagine. The harm occurring mostly to children, I bet. And sea turtles too probably. And other sea creatures most likely. And innocent babies, perhaps. And of course the occasional murder maybe.

I'm disgusting.

I meant to say disgusted. Three times, not in a row but close together, not on the same night but on consecutive nights. I've watched scenes on television shows depicting suffocation by plastic bag, murder actually, the last one on the television show Supernatural, where a guy comes up from behind and pops a plastic bag over the victim's head who then flails their arms wildly thrashing around helplessly as they suffocate to death, surprised and shocked and losing their air, they drop. The camera gets right up close to show the plastic stretched over their mouth. Three times I saw this similar scene filmed exactly the same way in the span of two days.

Therefore I felt compelled to issue this dramatic public service announcement.


3 comments:

AllenS said...

Plastic bags break down sooner than you think, and then just disappear.

rhhardin said...

Goldfish do okay.

The Dude said...

Anthony Soprano Jr., in episode 19 of the sixth season of The Sopranos attempted suicide using, among other things, a plastic baggie. His father saved him. Good thing that was fiction because in real life he would have taken a beating for being so stupid.