Originally posted on North American House Hippo’s Gab, April 25, 2024
TORONTO, CANADA (April 22, 2024). The Canadian Television Network (CTV) and other Canadian media reported on the latest nominee for the Darwin Award, a 15-year-old Toronto boy who, along with his friends (ages 14 and 16) thought it would be a good idea to climb up on top of the commuter train on which they were riding.
The boy’s head was struck by an overhead signal (it was a double decker train) and he was thrown off the train. Literally. At the time of writing this, he is alive.
I thought it would be fun to combine of the reports from the corporate media with a 1936 Paramount short animated film, “Play Safe,” which was produced to teach children the importance of railway safety. And I thought it would be even more fun to mock CTV for reporting this as if it was some kind of unavoidable happenstance.
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