I know public information films of the 70s and 80s are a standard comedy trope, but

[Sir C]

fvcking hell! I'd forgotten how grim some of them were. It's no wonder we grew up too scared to let our kids go outside. The government spent a decade or so scaring the sh1t out of us.

https://twitter.com/ScarredForLife2/...55482125570050

I seem to remember being repeated warned about the dangers of abandoned fridges. I never really encountered that many abandoned fridges, but clearly the warnings worked, since I didn't die in one.