Unfortunately, most laws aren't put in place until they have to be put in place (i.e., something bad has happened). Usually, an event causes such a public uproar that legislation is nearly forced into having to enact some kind of law.
The source of the public outcry can be many different things. It might be a massive tragedy - such as a fire - where hundreds of people perish. It might be a piece of literature that is so graphic, that its readers demand a change to the system. Or it might be the story of an ordinary woman who found a decomposing slug in the bottom of her glass. Regardless of the reason, the following laws were all important in creating the working and living conditions that we're accustomed to today
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Why am I so happy to hear this narrator again? Please never leave!
+1
He's the best
It's not that he leaves, it's that they let other narrators do videos too, sometimes. This guy still does most of them.
What if its ai lol
@@RocketDescends You really think this narrator could be AI? Well, I suppose it's not impossible nowadays. But, if that was the case, there would be no reason to randomly use other narrators/voices, especially since most viewers prefer this narrator/voice.
Thus the old saying, "Laws are written in blood", People have to die before safety is considered..sad but true
I come from a coal mining family. Every one of my family members who worked in an underground mine ended up getting black lung. Nasty stuff.
In West Virgina?
Despite man being the only creature on Earth able to plan for several years if not generations into the future, it always amazes me that we can't seem to do it as a group.
Our individualism will ultimately doom us as a species
2182 the real end of the world entered the chat.@@BeyondDaX
Sad how it takes a lunatic messing with medicine bottles to finally get laws passed.
All the existing safety measures we have are written in someone else's blood, sadly. The ones we need will be written in someone's too.
Well I wouldn’t say finally get a law passed. Tampering with stuff wasn’t even considered. Safety seals were put in to prevent it happening again because now the idea is out there. Laws were put in place to make sure companies complied.
True, but who in their right mind would tamper with painkillers like that? It's sick
Exactly what I was thinking. Heck, I submit that whomever the person who poisoned those unfortunate seven victims was, has actually saved countless lives. Well, before fentanly came along anyways.
@@kevinwebster7868 Yeah, I really get tired of people trying to compare the past with the present without any sort of context. It's really tiring. I wish people would learn some critical thinking skills but alas, we seem to have lost the use of logic in this country.
That bleaching cherries then dying them story was horrifying!!
Like I have said many times: "Behind each reason for regulation is at least one corpse."
Also check out buzFeed unsolved
Sad, but true
So...is your thought to regulate everything?
When i was a kid, i really remember the Tylenol Murders. That was a scary time.😢😮
Here’s one I think about a lot- The first anti-stalking law in the US was passed after the actress Rebecca Schaeffer was murdered in her doorway by an obsessive fan who had been stalking her. She was only 21 years old.
Now we just need to pass a law stating that Pharmaceutical companies cannot receive immunity from litigation if their products harm its customers.
😂
The fact that pedestrian deaths from automobiles has SKYROCKETED the past 15 years and nothing has been done is disgusting. There's literally thousands of deaths yearly. Trucks and SUVs are bigger than ever and have over double the mortality rate if you get hit by one. Yet nothing is being done to shrink the size or improve sightlines (tall hoods are the major culprit). There's basically zero enforcement of drivers using a cell phone. If this many people were dying from pills, a disease or household product in the same timeframe there'd be an uproar. Instead, the majority just want a bigger vehicles and turn a blind eye.
The way Jayne Mansfield died led to a law requiring trucks to have that extra bar (usually red and white stripes) below the trailer and above the tires.
Yes but contrary to popular belief, the bar only provides protection up to certain speeds. It's mostly the reflexive red and white stickers that are most effective to catch a driver's attention.
When you learn that her kids were in the back seat when it happened, it really is sobering. Mariska Haggarty is her daughter, no wonder she likes portraying a bad a$$ woman that takes down the criminally corrupt!
Have they done a video on history of beds yet? I need to see a weird history of humans sleeping arrangements
I second that.
Yes! That would be fascinating!
Similar to Australia, our neighbours across the ditch, New Zealand, passed new gun laws after the mass shooting in Christchurch a few years ago.
Better late then never, I suppose. If only America could take notes...
This is the only narrator I will accept.
Good grief...
@@acerimmer8338 Right? Some people just have really weird OCD shit going on.
Im wondering that this might not be a person. Unless he is constantly working on different things… Because I have heard the exact voice on many other channels, and many other KZhead clips, but I agree, I love his narrations.
Cause he's real not so and he throws in settle intelligent humor I agree
The irony of Thalidomide is that it's been reintroduced. Not for nausea but for leprosy. One assumes that it's not given to pregnant women. The USA has a lady (whose name I cannot remember, sadly) to thank for it not being allowed into the country. Look up the story and see what she went through, pressure-wise, by male scientists and others connected to importing drugs. She's a real heroine.
Frances Oldham Kelsey. A true American hero. Though funnily enough she was Canadian. 😊
@@Kaboomboo She held dual citizenship (US and Canada).
It is not given to pregnant woman. Only certain doctors can prescribe it, a woman must have two negative pregnancy tests before starting on the drug, use two forms of birth control while undergoing treatment, be periodically retested for pregnancy during treatment and continue to use birth control until 4 weeks after treatment ends.
I'm old enough to remember the Tylenol scare
This reminds me of the experimental drug and boosters recently handed out like candy #pureblood
Same here. There was a huge Halloween party in our neighborhood during this.
What's the matter? Not enough attention at home?@Gunsandfun1961
@JohnnyAngel8 Man, I carry my guitar in a gunny sack and sing it loud and proud.You do you, I will do me. Have a great day!
My dad keeps an annual tally of trick or treaters, going back to the 1960's. Prior to the Tylenol scare he was getting over 400 kids. But in 1982, the year of the scare, he got around 50. It ramped back up to around 250 the following year but his piece of notepaper that he keeps in his Halloween folder says "TYLENOL SCARE" in big letters.
These are the kind of stories that aren't taught at school but people *need* to know. ✊
Absolutely nuts that the only they managed to legislate against child labors was to get adults back to work in a depression.
It was a different time. I washed dishes in a restaurant at age 13 in the 1970s. Was that as bad as what kids endured 100 years ago? Of course not, but we can't judge what happened in the past by today's cultural norms. It's just dumb and unproductive.
@@danidavis7912 I worked before the age of 16 too. Given it was a decade later. The thing is it wasn't culturally accepted and people were fighting against it. Times are a changin' and I'm not judging the past based on todays standards. I'm judging actions by the the facts at the given time.
@@danidavis7912 the cultural norm of the government bending to the will of business instead of supporting its citizens is as old as the country itself. I don't think dishwashing is comparable to mine working especially considering there were other less dangerous jobs kids could still do during that time.
@@daniedco10 Obviously not.
I remember my mom dumping out the entire medicine cabinet. During the Tylenol cases… There’s a really good podcast on this case.. and just recently the main suspect passed.
What's the podcast??
Way to go Australia. While we offer prayers when a massacre happens, you lot actually went in and DID something.
Massive over reach by the Australian government. This clearly was a mental health issue.
We used to be like that, too. A few people died taking tylenol and every product gets seals. Now thousands get massacred and nothing changes.
They did nothing to stop the murder rate which stayed steady or increased slightly for than a decade after the gun ban. Violent assaults and sexual assaults went up dramatically as well. Essentially it was just a giant virtue signal that accomplished nothing other than the removal from individual citizens to protect themselves from criminals that never gave up their guns.
Yeah their violent crime and murder rate didn’t change at all but yeah it was the guns. We are blessed to live in a country with a 2A to protect us from tyrants in power
Damn right! Americans: "But muh freedumbs."
I actually see alot of false advertising everywhere! Online, stores, restaurants.
I have heard of some wild prison sentences, but 35 consecutive life sentences plus over 1600 years………bro your dust will have a prison cell
I remember hearing this a few years ago, so my details are a bit fuzzy, but the reason we tell parents to check their children's Halloween candy is because some guy wanted to murder his kids. My brain was mixing the story up with the Tylenol story because he used a pretty similar method, public distribution of poison through an innocuous object. The guy opened up a pack of pixie-stix (powder candy in a tube) put a bit of poison in each (don't remember what type) and closed them up. When Halloween came around, he gave one of the pixie-stix to his kid and gave the rest out to the trick-or-treaters. He would have gotten away with it if the police hadn't been able to trace the poison to the pixie-stix and got testimony that they were being distributed at that guy's house. I believe the video I watched was from a certain KZheadr with the initials S. W. but good luck finding that specific video, it's been a few years.
you are correct
Is it Simon Whistler? If so, that was my video request for Decoding the Unknown.
The pixie stick poisoning is why kids are told to only eat treats pre-wrapped at the factory. No more popcorn balls and things made by strangers.
why would that monster do that? did he hated children that much or something? they make the adult villains from Codename: Kids Next Door look mild in comparison.
@@Echo81Rumple83 IIRC, life insurance.
Candice DeLong has a fabulous episode about the Tylenol murders on her podcast Killer Psyche as she worked for the FBI at the time.
I just created a KZhead Watchlist after seeing this and added it as my first entry. Thank you so much for the recommendation!
Regulations are written in blood.
I think it’s absolutely terrible that something horrible has to happen to ensure change! And I feel a lot of these laws are common sense but something had to happen for lawmakers to act. 😢😢
We are a reactive species not a proactive one
Take responsibility for yourself and stop expecting everyone else to do it for you.
In Canada there's Jimmy Grant's law, which means in Canada you have to pay for gas before you put it in your car. It came about because a young man named Jimmy Grant was killed trying to stop some people who had taken gas without paying for it and there was concern from pretty much everyone that this might happen again. By the way I didn't mind the new guy he was fine.
I am from Canada and I often pump then go into the store to pay. What province are you in with this law?
@@selalewow It's a British Columbia law according to a trivia book.
@@jonathanbarr9764 Thanks :)
0:40 "We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel is one of my favorite music videos of all time! Fantastic music video!
The Tylenol Murders was shocking thing to happen in the 80's.
It took Australia just one gun incident to change the gun law but America? At least ban the semi auto, because how do you justify self defense using it?
There is absolutely no reason for automatic weapons to be available. None.
The Nirbhya gang -R case shouldve also been included. A tragedy like that was the primary reason why the POCSO act was able to get passed by the legislature in India
The Tylenol poisonings are why I prefer pills and caplets instead of capsules when I buy over-the-counter medications. The capsules can be opened and things put inside. And, I still check to see that the box and container have not been opened or tampered with.
The "VOICE" is back!!
I was having a terrible day until I hit play on this video.. there’s something about the narrators voice 😊Makes me smile every time!
I MISSED YOU TOM BLANK!!!
So many people just don’t understand this when they demand deregulation…
Because they've been brainwashed by Republicans into believing all government protections are bad.
You obviously don't pay attention to some of the bogus laws out there.
You're the " if it saves one life " rights trampled arent you?
@@OntarioBearHunter you’re the “I don’t care how many people are poisoned,” aren’t you?
@@OntarioBearHunter Let's see how you feel when it's someone you know who dies from negligence or tainted food.
A+ video! LOVE IT! What fascinating and unique law histories!
Thanks for this! 📜
Good stuff but you missed the Coconut Grove fire in Boston. Many laws enacted after that disaster.
Omg! You're back!!!! ❤️
Interesting and exciting topic!
Yay- my favorite narrator is back! 😊
Yah, about that "corporate negligence" thing. In America, Nestle made many babies sick and unalive them but only got hit with a government subsidy to pay to revamp their equipment.
0:39 That reminds me of the music video "Bad Medicine" by Bon Jovi (1988). Comedian Sam Kinison is on the beginning of the video. Awesome music video!
9:35 Reminds me of the music video "She Drives Me Crazy" by Fine Young Cannibals. Awesome music video! That is a classic 80s music video!
How many mass shootings in Australia since Port Arthur in 1996? How many mass shootings in America since Sandy Hook in 2012? 🤔🤔
Aus hasnt had many since then.
I’ve always thought about this- the fact that something terrible needs to happen in order for things to be safe- it’s awful 11:50 I read a book on this called “Uprising.” It follows the stories of three girls of different backgrounds and financial status. It’s a tragic story about their experiences in and around the factory. Made me cry.
Your voice makes us all happy. Lol
Please Bring Back Timeline!
Let's be specific, now.. Bring back Timeline AND make sure this is the voice narrating it! I'd go from ecstatic to thoroughly disappointed if I saw a new Timeline drop, and then find out it's someone else's voice!
10:45 Wow, what a history!
Because it takes a tragedy to make people realize that something is wrong.
Yesss! The narrator we love! ❤️
Thanks for using the actual right guy!!
Meanwhile here in the USA all we ever get is “ thoughts and prayers” after every mass shooting.
Here’s the Voice 😊👍🏼
Glad to have you back.
Finally, our main man is back!
The night the Tylenol story was released, Disney had arranged 5 minute live-satellite feeds from their new theme park, Epcot Center. A station in Cleveland had the 6:00 to 6:05 slot. While the entire midwest learned of the murders on their local news at 6pm, Cleveland viewers on that channel learned of the murders at 6:05...
Yaay our G is back
Tragic... like the origin of my ban from family BBQs.
We always say, policies are written in blood. Typically it's because somebody was hurt or died where a policy needed addressed. Same thing with law.
Its SO NICE to gave you back. Hope you stay!!!!!
I knew about these except the fire one.
I remember the good old days when politicians actually worked *for* the people!
FJB
@@lukemn29FDT AND FJB
Only 5% of all of histories' politicians are for the people. The rest have their own ulterior motives
When did you grow up the 1700s?
"to prevent theft" that's why, totally
Finally, a watchable video with the correct narrator
You're going to burst into tears when you find out how widespread A.I. is for narration voices now.
@@timthegemYour source?
@@timthegem Are you thick or something? The narrators name is Tom Blank and has voice acted in games like Call of Duty and Horizon Zero Dawn. He's gonna be so disappointed to hear that hes an AI.
Yesss the voice is back
every law student hearing about the carbolic smoke ball like HEY I KNOW THAT ONE 🤓☝️
Laura Jarrett is the main legal analyst for NBC Nightly News and she really makes the legal world seem exciting, she is fantastic!
I like how this narrator does videos on weird history food too
The meat plant section of The Jungle takes up only a small portion the novel.
8:03 Awesome to see a sociologist in this video, especially this guy because he is a true leader!
This is the BEST voice for Weird History!!!
Thank You for mentioning Australia's change to gun laws 8:37 . The Port Arthur massacre inspired the THEN leader of the Australian federal government ( Prime Minister ) John Howard to arrange a gun buyback scheme and have destroyed all the guns that were handed in to local police stations around Australia ( as too the rest of what you mentioned took place as a result ) . ♑️✍️🇳🇴🇦🇺
Love his voice
7:26 Ugh! Snail juice?! Lmao 🤣 Only the Ferengi from Star Trek would like such a drink! (Remember, they have Slug-O Cola! Yum? 😋) Heeheehee!
HE'S ALIVE!!!! Mr. Narrator!!!
My great grandfather was a miner. He lost one lung to the Black Lung, and smoked out the other. He died after his past alcoholism wreaked havoc on his liver, making him throw up his own blood.
And he was only 23 years old, right?
I'd like to see a video about legal issues / cases that have resulted controversially in America 🇺🇸 , where to this day there's many different opinions about which side of the case is/was right and that divides the American public & legal experts alike . ♑️✍️🇳🇴🇦🇺
That difference in chirality in Thalidomide is the same difference in Prilosec and Nexium.
I wish the U.S. would prohibit the use of a lot of food colours and so much sugar in everything. Some of the colourings are dangerous and sugar is addictive and a big contributor to obesity. I remember thr Tylenol murders in the mid-80s. It was scary and the person who did it was never found.
The US bans things Europe allows
BS. None of the dyes are dangerous and sugar is not "addictive".
As I remember it a woman was trying to kill her husband and gave him tainted Tylenol and also put it in the drugstore. Maybe they're two different events but I'm pretty sure of the one I'm talking about. She was definitely caught!
This is like a mini crash course in 1L law classes
Bron in February 1958. Thank you, FDA!
1:32 Reminds me of the film Malignant (2021), talk about a birth defect!
Thats an awesome movie
the company selling the liquid sulfabnilamide was just like yeah lets mass produce this without ever trying it on ANYONE! or were there deaths and they just went ahead?
Small error: There were 2 elevators inside the Triangle Factory building, not one
Fun fact- In the United States, there are no laws against cannibalism, however murder is kinda illegal.
There most certainly are laws. Abusing a corpse is illegal.
@@JohnnyAngel8 That law isn't regarding Cannibalism. In the US there's been people who made tacos from their other friends foot after it was amputated. Which totally legal, where most other places they would be in trouble. There's many other stores like that. Point is the US along a few other countries never made Cannibalism illegal, whereas most others countries did.
Ahhh THE Narrator! My ears have missed you so!
10:07 - Democracy....3 out of 4 people love it. 🙄
Does that annoy you because it’s true, or are you one of the easily brainwashed turds? 😂
1:07 We have a globe that is just like that!
7:45. Who's doing your exchange rates. Lol £ = $
Oh yay, I was afraid mr voice had left the channel 😄
Kinda funny how osha was starter for miners and now mine sites have there own inspectors 😂
I mean... it's a bit reasonable to think so, no? I was just having a conversation the other day about safety regulations existing because of things going wrong.
I finally remembered why your voice sounds familiar. It reminds me of the old black and white US war propaganda videos.
The only narrator I wanna hear
Most warnings come from idiots❤
Shalom
LOL