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This show promotes kids playing in biohazards

posted 18 years ago by Navaros
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The other day I happened upon an episode of this show where the kids were "cleaning up a dump" and "making into a park". That is a biohazard.

Actually the show "House" did an episode on this, where a guy got some freaky deadly disease by wearing a trinket his dad made for him from the dump, which was radioactive.

Back in the 1960's didn't they know that kids playing in dumps is a biohazard, or if they did what the heck were they thinking by producing this?

[–] brews 18 years ago

Jeez it's just a TV show

[–] Navaros 18 years ago

I know that and you know that but little kids who watch it might not know that and so they might go play in a dump without knowing any better.

[–] Erinlizbeth 18 years ago

Why are little kids wandering around on their own??

[–] Navaros 17 years ago

Well, not that little but still old enough to play on their own with other kids at the playground or something without adult supervision.

For example, an 8 year old could see the episode of them playing around in a dump, and then after school one day he can convince his other 8 year old friends to go play in a dump with him. Chances are a lot of them would not realize the biohazard risks of what they are doing. Next thing ya know they have all sorts of weird diseases/illnesses from that.

Shouldn't this show have been more conscious of safety issues like this?

[–] Erinlizbeth 17 years ago

I'm sure it was unknown and nobody thought of those safety conditions in the 1960s.

[–] bobbyp1966 11 years ago

Please, get over yourself. People know better now. Drop the subject.

[–] maild-1 16 years ago

This was the mid 1960's when we weren't thinking about biohazards. We were still spraying harmful pesticides on our gardens, pouring poisons into our sinks, etc. Smoking and thinking it wouldn't hurt us.
That was also the time that we played out side for hours, although my mother always wanted to know where we were playing. But I can remember being gone for hours, riding bikes, picking up coke bottles and returning them for 5 cents each, etc.
Times were different back then. People were much more trusting and much more innocent about the dangers of life.

[–] moomur 16 years ago

This show was made in 1966. Why are people always disappointed that these shows weren't politically or enviromentally correct? Nobody cared about this stuff way back then. Kids were thin and had an imagination back then. Something the kids in this day and age don't have.

[–] ShadoeMagic 16 years ago

About the time this show started, I was living in a neighborhood bordered by a dump. We used to play in there all the time.

40 years later, still alive and kicking.

[–] pinecone9 14 years ago

Very interesting point.

[–] bcdc1984 14 years ago

Because more people in the 1960s were busy teaching personal responsibility, love, and family values instead of spreading politically correct and environmentlly correct BS.

[–] Pwilliam73 14 years ago

if we are so concerned about this,think about where all the guys from Fat Albert were running around...

[–] Erinlizbeth 12 years ago

I didn't see any bio hazards in this episode. I played in an old junk car for years and I'm alive and kicking at 49 years old but Oh My goodness it is a shame that they weren't sitting in front of the TV, playing video games all day on the Atari and in front of a old computer from breakfast until bedtime and going to bed when they wanted when they had school. How dare guardians and parents send them outside to get air, exercise and play and be kids!
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[–] TrentinaNE 12 years ago

LOL, I just saw this episode today and never worried about bio-hazards. :-) But I doubt they could run the same storyline today. Too much litigation risk!

[–] Erinlizbeth 12 years ago

I know what you mean. Half of the story-lines wouldn't be played today. The episode with Buffy helping the classmate who was too fat and had a crush on Jody would make people cry Bully and discrimination!! LOL

[–] nycruise-1 11 years ago

Those writers were pretty stupid and naive about issues like biohazards.

I think that episode on "House" was based on a real case in Brazil where a little girl found a stash of radioactive cesium in a dump.

The element is sparkly and glittery and BLUE (thus "Cesium Blue") and she put it on her face as makeup.

Needless to say, that was the end of her.

I'm sure if some kids had been inspired by the FA "dump" episode and taken the initiative to revamp a genuine hazardous dump and gotten harmed in the process, it would have made headlines.

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[–] oscarunger 10 years ago

lol, most dumps in the 60's and 70's didn't have any nuclear waste...just old cans and shoes. and a mean dog....in fact the dog would probably be the main danger

[–] bobbyp1966 10 years ago

Would you prefer it if we all lived indoors 24/7 and bathed in hand sanitizer every hour, on the hour like you?

There comes a time when we all must join reality, already in progress. Most of us have done that long ago.