CATCH-23

The Great Mid-Eighty's Latching Fridge Epidemic or Latching Refridgerators; The Silent Killers or How Punky Brewster Saved Thousands of Lives Kids these days do not know how lucky they are, now that the latching refridgerators are gone. It was tough growing up in the eighty's. We had a lot more to worry about back then; nuclear war, razor blades in our Haloween candy, and worst of all, suffocating in an old abandoned latching fridge. It's unclear exactly how many kids needlessly lost thier lives while those Crumb-Bum politicians idely sat by doing nothing. It would happen time and time agian, seemingly innocent games of after-school Hide-and-Seek would turn deadly when a kid would find the perfect hiding place: the rusty old Kenmore fridge in the alley. The door would latch shut and the kid who was, as they say, "It," never found his hidden friend until it was too late. Those were troubled times. It wasn't until 1987 that something was finally done. A grieving...