This day in history: The animated sitcom, The Flintstones, aired for the first time on this day in 1960.
It ran until April 1, 1966, and it was the first animated series to hold a prime-time slot on television. The Flintstones was the most financially successful and longest-running network animated television series for three decades, until The Simpsons surpassed it in 1997. In 2013, TV Guide ranked The Flintstones the second-greatest TV cartoon of all time (after The Simpsons).
The strangest part of The Flintstones was hearing Pebbles and Bam-Bam singing about the devil.
The songs starts of thusly:
Mommy told me something
a little kid should know.
It's all about the devil
and I've learned to hate him so.
She said he causes trouble
when you let him in the room.
He will never ever leave you
if your heart is filled with gloom.
This grim song was first recorded in 1955 by the Cowboy Church Sunday School and it peaked at number 8 on the Billboard Charts.
The 1969 number 1 hit song "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In" by The 5th Dimension contains the refrain "Let the Sunshine In" and backing vocals that include the phrase "Open Up Your Heart".
This day in history: Henry Robinson opened the first dating agency in the world on this day in 1650. "Robinson’s Citizens Advice Bureau was the first of its kind, and not only did it match servants to those who needed them like an employment agency, but it also matchmade those who couldn’t find love. Although matchmakers had been around for many years, this was the first business considered as a dating agency based in London." Source
Afterward, marriage agencies run by clergymen were introduced to England and Wales in the late 18th century, prompting considerable amusement from the social commentators of the day. In 1799 a "provincial publication says that a MATRIMONIAL PLAN is proposed to be established throughout every county, city, or town, in England or Wales. (...) The system of this curious, and it should seem actually serious, plan — as far as we can learn — is as follows: — Every person, of either sex, who desires to enter into a treaty of marriage, is first to subscribe a certain sum. All ladies and gentlemen to describe themselves, by real or fictitious names, as they may choose".
Men and women would classify themselves into three classes, and would generally state how much money they earned, or would be given as a dowry. A typical entry would read:
Second Class, No.2. — A gentleman, 40 years of age, a little corpulent, rather of a dark brown complexion, wears a wig, has a place in the Customs, and a small estate in Suffolk, with 750l. in the funds; reasonably well-tempered, and at times very lively; religion — of his fathers.
By 1825 an agency in Bishopsgate, London, opened three days a week for members of the public looking for a partner to describe themselves and subscribe to the appropriate list. However, by then both ladies and gentlemen had to classify themselves in 5 different classes.
This day in history: On this day in 2012, Ilda Vitor Maciel, died in a hospital in Rio de Janeiro, allegedly as a result of nursing technicians injecting soup through her intravenous drip instead of her feeding tube.
These types of mistakes are common, even in the US. "According to a 2016 study led by Martin Makary, a professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, medical errors in hospitals and other health care facilities are so commonplace that preventable deaths due to medical malpractice are the third leading cause of death in the United States. Their latest estimate found that approximately 251,000 lives are claimed each year because of medical error - about 9.5 percent of all deaths annually in the United States. This staggering number is higher than deaths caused by stroke, accidents or Alzheimer's." Source
This day in history: Jesse Dirkhising was killed on this day in 1999. You never heard of Jesse Dirkhising, but you have heard about Matthew Shepard. Matthew Shepard was a gay man who was killed by two heterosexual men and it made national and international news. Jesse Dirkhising was a 13-year-old boy that was bound drugged, tortured, raped and killed by two gay men, at about the same time, and only the Washington Times picked it up initially on a national level with a headline that read, "Media tune out torture death of Arkansas boy."
NewsMax reported:
“McGowan did a Nexus search and learned that the Shepard case generated a massive 3,007 stories. "And when the case finally went to trial ... it was all over the broadcast news, received front-page coverage in all major newspapers, and was featured on the cover of Time magazine. (In all, the New York Times ran 195 stories about the case.)
"In the month after the Dirkhising murder, however, Nexus recorded only 46 stories...
He sums up by quoting the surprisingly candid Andrew Sullivan - an openly gay columnist for the liberal New Republic.
Wrote Sullivan: "The Shepard case was hyped for political reasons: to build support for inclusion of homosexuals in a federal hate crimes law. The Dirkhising case was ignored for political reasons: squeamishness about reporting a story that could feed anti-gay prejudice and the lack of any pending legislation to hang a story on ... Some deaths - if they affect a politically protected class - are worth more than others. Other deaths, those that do not fit a politically correct profile, are left to oblivion."
Today is One-Hit Wonder Day. "National One-Hit Wonder Day was established by music journalist Steve Rosen back in 1990 to pay tribute to all of those who have had their fifteen minutes (or less) of fame and subsequently vanished, leaving the world with only a catchy (hopefully!) tune to remember them by. This day has been observed for more than two decades, and every year that adds new musicians to the list just makes the celebrations that much more rich and exciting." Source
This day in history: U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument on this day in 1906.
It rises 1,267 feet (386 m) above the Belle Fourche River, standing 867 feet (264 m) from summit to base. The summit is 5,112 feet (1,558 m) above sea level.
The name "Devil's Tower" originated in 1875 during an expedition led by Colonel Richard Irving Dodge, when his interpreter reportedly misinterpreted a native name to mean "Bad God's Tower". All information signs in that area use the name "Devils Tower", following a geographic naming standard whereby the apostrophe is omitted.
The 1977 movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind used the formation as a plot element and as the location of its climactic scenes. Its release was the cause of a large increase in visitors and climbers to the monument.
This day in history: One of the first of the Cleveland Torso Murders, Edward Anthony Andrassy, was killed on this day in 1935. The Cleveland Torso Murderer, also known as the Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run, was an unidentified serial killer who was active in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, in the 1930s. The killings were characterized by the dismemberment of thirteen known victims and the disposal of their remains in the impoverished neighborhood of Kingsbury Run. Most victims came from an area east of Kingsbury Run called "The Roaring Third" or "Hobo Jungle", known for its bars, gambling dens, brothels, and vagrants. Despite an investigation of the murders, which at one time was led by famed lawman Eliot Ness, then Cleveland's Public Safety Director, the murderer was never apprehended.
The official number of murders attributed to the Cleveland Torso Murderer is twelve, although recent research has shown there could have been as many as twenty or more. The twelve known victims were killed between 1935 and 1938.
Authorities interrogated around 9,100 people during the investigation to find the Torso Murderer. The case became the biggest police investigation in Cleveland history.
This day in history: On this day in 2003, while auditioning for the third season of American Idol, William Hung performed a lively, but really bad rendition of the Ricky Martin hit "She Bangs."
Despite this, Hung rapidly gained a cult following. A William Hung fan site, set up by realtor Don Chin and his wife Laura, recorded over four million hits within its first week. Remixes of Hung's audition performance topped song request lists at a number of radio stations.
Hung subsequently appeared on several television programs including Jimmy Kimmel Live!, On Air with Ryan Seacrest, Entertainment Tonight, George Lopez, the Late Show with David Letterman, Countdown with Keith Olbermann, The Howard Stern Radio Show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Dateline NBC, Arrested Development and CBS's The Early Show. Hung was featured in several national magazines and newspapers; he was parodied on Saturday Night Live, Mad TV, Celebrity Deathmatch, and The Fairly OddParents. He was reportedly invited to perform at MTV's Asia Awards held in mid-February.
William Hung was offered a $25,000 advance on a record deal from Koch Entertainment in 2004, and released three albums on that label in 2004 and 2005. His first album was Inspiration. Produced by Giuseppe D, it was recorded over a March 2004 weekend with Hung singing vocals over karaoke music. To promote it, Hung performed before nearly 20,000 fans during half-time at a Golden State Warriors basketball game on April 6 and performed "She Bangs", included on the album, on such shows as The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. The album received highly negative reviews, but ultimately went on to sell about 200,000 copies and reached Number One on Billboard's Top Independent Album Chart.
This day in history: English writer H.G. Wells was born on this day in 1866. He was a pioneering science-fiction author, novelist, futurist, and political theorist, best known for his science-fiction works, and in particular The War of the Worlds, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Time Machine, and The Invisible Man.
American writer Stephen King was born on this day in 1947. King is best known for his horror fiction in works such as Carrie, Pet Sematary, It and The Shining.
Both authors are the most popular writers over the past century.
Both writers are also Leftists. Wells, a Fabian Socialist, despised human liberty, sneering, "Consider the clerks and girls who hurry to their work of a morning across Brooklyn Bridge in New York City, or Hungerford Bridge in London; go and see them, study their faces. They are free, with a freedom Socialism would destroy." An apologist for Stalinism, he visited the Soviet Union in 1934 and denied the Holodomor. In his advocacy of eugenics, he displayed contempt for human life, writing, "No doubt Utopia will kill all deformed and monstrous and evilly diseased births." In a 1932 speech at Oxford University, Wells exhorted his audience, “I am asking for a Liberal Fascisti, for enlightened Nazis.”
King has famously suffered from Trump Derangement Syndrome. His obsessive hatred for Trump has even entered his new book Holly, which has reduced him from novelist to propagandist. Decades ago it was common knowledge that he used ghost writers, an idea that should not be dismissed considering that he is also a drug addict and alcoholic.
This day in history: American folk-rock singer-songwriter Jim Croce was killed in a plane crash on this day in 1973.
Between 1966 and 1973, he released five studio albums and numerous singles, including "Time in a Bottle", "You Don't Mess Around with Jim", "I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song" and "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown".
On the night of Thursday, September 20, 1973, during Croce's Life and Times tour and the day before his ABC single "I Got a Name" was released, Croce and five others were killed when their chartered Beechcraft E18S crashed into a tree during takeoff from the Natchitoches Regional Airport in Natchitoches, Louisiana. Croce was 30 years old. Others killed in the crash were pilot Robert N. Elliott, Croce's bandmate Maury Muehleisen, comedian George Stevens, manager and booking agent Kenneth D. Cortese, and road manager Dennis Rast. An hour before the crash, Croce had completed a concert at Northwestern State University's Prather Coliseum in Natchitoches; he was flying to Sherman, Texas, for a concert at Austin College.
An investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) named the probable cause as the pilot's failure to see the obstruction due to physical impairment and because fog reduced his vision. The 57-year-old Elliott suffered from severe coronary artery disease and had run three miles to the airport from a motel. He had an ATP certificate, 14,290 hours total flight time, and 2,190 hours in the Beech 18 type airplane. A later investigation placed the sole blame on pilot error because of his downwind takeoff into a "black hole" of severe darkness, limiting his use of visual references.
Croce was buried at Haym Salomon Memorial Park in Frazer, Pennsylvania.
Jim Croce is one of many musicians who have died in plane crashes, including Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, Richie Valens, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Patsy Cline, Glenn Miller, Jim Reeves, several members of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Otis Redding, Randy Rhoads, Ricky Nelson, John Denver, and Aaliyah.
Today in History: Today is Batman day. The first Batman Day was held in 2014 to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the first appearance of Batman in Detective Comics in 1939.
Did you know: Bruce Wayne was named after two real heroes: Robert the Bruce, a Scottish national hero, and Mad Anthony Wayne, a hero of the American Revolution.
The creation of Batman was inspired by Zorro, the Shadow and Dracula.
The name Gotham came from a random placement in the phone book. Writer Bill Finger simply opened the phone book and placed his finger on "Gotham Jewelers."
According to Forbes, Bruce Wayne is worth $7 billion.
In order of appearance, the actors who have played our beloved Batman are Lewis G Wilson, Robert Lowrey, Adam West, Michael Keaton, Val Kilmer, George Clooney, Christian Bale, Will Arnett, and Ben Affleck.
Pierce Brosnan was actually supposed to play Batman in the 1989 Batman instead of Michael Keaton.
This day in history: In Denmark, small-time criminal Palle Sørensen shot and killed four policemen who were pursuing him on this day in 1965; he was apprehended the next day.
Palle Sørensen's crime eventually led to the arming of Danish police officers.
There are still nineteen countries or territories where the police do not carry firearms unless the situation is expected to merit it. some of those include Bhutan, Botswana, China, Cook Islands, Fiji, Iceland, Ireland, Kiribati, Malawi, Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Zealand, Niue, Norway, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, and the United Kingdom.
This day in history: On this day in 1988, during the opening ceremony of the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, hundreds of live doves were released as a symbol of world peace. Many of the doves landed on the Olympic cauldron just prior to it being lit. When the cauldron was lit, over a dozen of the doves resting on the rim of the cauldron and flying directly above it were burned alive by the Olympic flame. The death of the birds marked the last time that live doves were used in the ceremonies.
This was not the only public death of doves during a sporting event. On March 24 2001, during a Major League Baseball spring training game, pitcher Randy Johnson threw a fastball just as a bird flew through the pitch's path. The bird was killed instantly.
This day in history: The Washington Navy Yard shooting occurred on this day in 2013, when 34-year-old Aaron Alexis fatally shot 12 people and injured three others in a mass shooting at the headquarters of the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) inside the Washington Navy Yard in southeast Washington, D.C. The attack took place in the Navy Yard's Building 197; it began around 8:16 a.m. EDT and ended when police killed Alexis around 9:25 a.m. It is the deadliest mass shooting in Washington, D.C. history, as well as the second deadliest mass murder on a U.S. military base, behind the 2009 Fort Hood shooting.
Tennessee Democrat Kate Craig posted on X in response this to a meme that guns save lives: "When I lived in DC, the Washington Navy Yard (where I worked) had a mass shooting. 13 died, 8 were injured. This is a military base where soldiers are armed...Don’t tell me more guns solves this deadly problem."
However, this was not the case. Personnel on the base "were not permitted to carry weapons on the base, thanks to former President Bill Clinton.
In 1993 the president issued orders that barred members of the military and their civilian contractors from carrying personal firearms on base. Even officers were disarmed under the law.
Almost as soon as Clinton assumed office, in March 1993 the Army imposed regulations forbidding military personnel from carrying their personal firearms and making it almost impossible for commanders to issue firearms to soldiers in the U.S. for personal protection.
That ban extends to virtually all U.S military bases and related installations.
Under the ruling enacted by the Clinton administration, there must be 'a credible and specific threat against personnel' before military personnel 'may be authorized to carry firearms for personal protection.'
This was the reason that the Fort Hood shooter Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan was able to go on a rampage for a full 10 minutes in 2009 without being stopped." Investors Business Daily
The shooting also highlights the failure of government institutions. The shooter, Aaron Alexis, had a history of erratic behavior, which if properly reported, would have stripped him of his clearance, barring him access to the facility.
The Charleston shooter was able to pass a background check even though he was a prohibited possessor. Former FBI director James Comey said they made a mistake, it was a paperwork error. The Sutherland Springs shooter was able to get a gun because the Air Force did not report his conviction.”
This day in history: The first issue of "USA Today" was published on this day in 1982. USA Today is the most-read daily newspaper in the United States, which has a declining daily paid circulation of about 2.6 million as of 2018. It is known mostly for its complete and detailed coverage of sports, but also features regional issues ignored by major city-based newspapers. Critics have called it "McPaper", having all the nutritional value of a meal at a fast food restaurant such as McDonald's. USA Today is owned by the leftist media conglomerate Gannett Corporation.
AllSides, an American company that assesses the political bias of prominent media outlets, moved USA Today's media bias rating from Center to Lean Left following a July 2021 Editorial Review.
"The team noted a consistent omission of stories that were important to folks on the right — for example, in June and July 2021, prominent stories on the right regarding businesses struggling to hire due to covid-era unemployment benefits, the high price of gas, and rising crime and gun violence in US cities were not prominently featured. AllSides noted USA Today's top coverage had a consistent focus on social justice issues and climate change....The team found that USA Today frequently leads its stories with left-wing viewpoints, and quotes people and organizations from the left more prominently than those from the right. Quotes from people with alternative or right-wing perspectives are either omitted entirely, or included much farther down in the article. We also noted anti-Trump bias." Source
Sharyl Attkisson recently noted that USA Today still promotes false news about vaccine efficacy. Last year USA Today had to remove 23 articles after it was discovered that their reporter fabricated sources.
With all this and much more, bear in mind that USA Today is a fact check partner for Facebook.
This day in History: If you were a man celebrating your 19th birthday on this day in 1969, you would be the among first ones considered for the military draft to fight in Vietnam.
"A military draft violates the principle that individuals have inalienable rights that no government should violate. A draft also puts all of our rights at risk. If we accept that the government has the legitimate authority to force individuals to fight, kill, and die in a war, then how can we argue that the government cannot force citizens to pay high taxes, purchase health insurance, or submit to TSA screenings? How can we argue against the government forbidding people from smoking marijuana or owning “assault” weapons? Many traditional conservatives, including Ronald Reagan, opposed the draft, pointing to its threat to individual rights." Ron Paul
"Of all the statist violations of individual rights in a mixed economy, the military draft is the worst. It is an abrogation of rights. It negates man’s fundamental right—the right to life—and establishes the fundamental principle of statism: that a man’s life belongs to the state, and the state may claim it by compelling him to sacrifice it in battle. Once that principle is accepted, the rest is only a matter of time.
If the state may force a man to risk death or hideous maiming and crippling, in a war declared at the state’s discretion, for a cause he may neither approve of nor even understand, if his consent is not required to send him into unspeakable martyrdom—then, in principle, all rights are negated in that state, and its government is not man’s protector any longer. What else is there left to protect?" Ayn Rand
This Day in History: Mary, a five-ton cow elephant was hanged by the neck from a railcar-mounted industrial crane on this day in 1916.
Mary, also known as "Murderous Mary", was a five-ton Asian elephant who performed in the Sparks World Famous Shows circus. After killing circus employee Walter “Red” Eldridge on his second day as her handler in September 1916, in Kingsport, Tennessee, she was hanged in nearby Erwin.
"Mary’s story is as sad as it is bizarre. While time has clouded the exact details of her life, a few things remain certain: the female circus elephant killed the man who beat her with a hook, and a small town in Tennessee formed a mob, lynching her in a public execution as grisly as it is unbelievable." Source
"Big Mary was buried in a big pit in front of the railroad shop doors. Erwin, which has had time to reflect on this, does not want the grave marked. It would rather not be known as The Town That Hanged The Elephant, and the Chamber of Commerce is very particular about assigning blame. 'We killed the elephant, we do not deny it,' they told us. 'But it was not our fault.'
On Highway 23, the Unicoi County Heritage Museum displays newspaper clippings from the period and sells a book that tells the Big Mary story: The Day They Hung the Elephant by Charles Edwin Price. 'It is true. It did occur,' said the curator. 'But, quite frankly, the town is not real proud of it.'" Source
Today in History: American journalist and writer H.L. Mencken was born on this day in 1880. Though he was considered very controversial, Mencken earned respect as America’s foremost newspaperman and literary critic. He produced an estimated ten million words: some 30 books, contributions to 20 more books and thousands of newspaper columns. He wrote some 100,000 letters, or between 60 and 125 per working day. Mencken weighed in with wit on topics about politics, literature, food, health, religion, sports etc., and he ranks among the most frequently quoted American authors.
He had a way with words that can only be attributed to a man of letters. He once described the ugliness of the buildings during his trip on a train this way: "I am not speaking of mere filth. One expects steel towns to be dirty. What I allude to is the unbroken and agonizing ugliness, the sheer revolting monstrousness, of every house in sight. From East Liberty to Greensburg, a distance of twenty-five miles, there was not one insight from the train that did not insult and lacerate the eye."
H.L. Mencken also held governments and politicians in the lowest regard:
"Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods."
"The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression."
"A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar."
"A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground."
"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance."
"Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses."
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."
"If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner."
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong."
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed, and hence clamorous to be led to safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
"Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies."
"A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier."
"All government, of course, is against liberty."
"When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before."
"A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable."
"The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable."
"It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office."
"Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven."
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule."
This day in history: President George H.W. Bush gave his (in)famous New World Order speech on this day in 1990.
New world order, frequently abbreviated to NWO, is a phrase originally coined after the Great War (World War I) to describe Woodrow Wilson's strategy during the formation of the League of Nations (later replaced with the United Nations since 1945). It was meant to imply that the international political climate that existed before the war had to be changed by adopting a compact of collective security and emphasizing the right to self-determination and democracy. However, when the United States rejected membership of the League, the term became discredited. Since then the term has been applied (sometimes retroactively) to pivotal changes in international affairs, such as the end of World War II or the end of the Cold War.
The phrase "new world order" has since developed a much more sinister meaning of implementing a one-world government and ending national sovereignty under the disguise of "world peace." On September 11, 1991, exactly 11 years prior to the 9/11 attacks, former president George H. W. Bush promoted the new world order and described it as being a world where a rule of law would determine the conduct of nations, which vaguely describes a one-world government. Insisting that the plan will be a success, Bush goes on to say that the new world order will allow the United Nations to fulfill its peacekeeping role that its founders had envisioned. This phrase has also been used by President Joe Biden, as on March 21, 2022, when he declared, "There’s going to be a new world order out there."
On September 9, 2021 the (unelected) chief health officer of New South Wales, the largest state in Australia, said: "We will be looking at what contact tracing looks like in the new world order. Yes, it will be pubs and clubs and other things if we have a positive case there. Our response may be different if we know that people are fully vaccinated. So, we're working through a number of those issues."
Polish prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki speaking at the Warsaw Permanent Working Review Conference for Ukrainian Support on February 5, 2023 said, "Poland is ready to take responsibility for shaping the New World Order."
This day in history: On this day in 1846, a mob of around 1,000 anti-Mormons besieged the city of Nauvoo, Illinois with guns and cannons in order to get rid of the Mormons. The Mormons had fortified the city and built breastworks along major roads. They armed 150 men to fight the mob. Three of the Mormon defenders were killed, and several were wounded on both sides.
On September 16, the Mormons surrendered. They were given five days to pack their belongings and head west.
Shortly after the Mormons left, the Icarian Communist movement moved to Nauvoo. Like many such Socialist experiments, the movement would ultimately fail.
This day in history: On this day in 2021, Tony Eyles, 42, died at a McDonald's drive-through in Vancouver, Canada, after partially opening his car door to retrieve a dropped credit card. His car rolled forward and collided with the restaurant's structure, pinning him between the car door and the vehicle's frame. Despite attempts to revive the victim, he died on scene.
In 2018, a man in St. Louis died after trying to get his food from a Jack In The Box drive-thru and also was pinned by his car.
Similarly, a 69-year-old man in Ohio in 2020 died after he dropped his change at a McDonald's drive-thru and opened the door of his pickup to retrieve the change and got caught between the vehicle door and a pole.
This day in history: A 21-year-old mother was killed by a power window on this day in 2019.
"According to Daily Mail, Yulia Sharko was out celebrating her 21st birthday with friends and family when she decided it was time to leave.
So, she and her daughter left the party and started their journey home, but something strange happened along the way.
The report claims Sharko was attempting to pull her child out of a ‘half-open window’ in the front seat of her car when her daughter pressed the automatic window button. The window then closed on her neck—cutting off air supply and asphyxiating the mother.
Sharko’s ‘lifeless body’ was later found by her husband, Artur, who says he went out looking for his family after they failed to return home." Source
Power windows do kill, but they usually kill children. Power windows have killed at least 65 children since 1990. The victims are mostly age 3 and younger. The deaths have included:
A 3-year-old girl in Dallas
A 4-year-old boy in Wisconsin
A 2-year-old girl in Arizona
A 3-year-old boy whose mother found him trapped in a power window.
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