#58 sí, es una pena. Pero claro quien tira su frigo del mini apartamento de la playa? Son muchas muertes evitables
El ejemplo que ponía antes de las bolsas de plástico en #42 (en la estadística de arriba se multiplicaban mucho mas respecto al frigo y es algo "tan tonto", pero es un niño, no lo olvidemos)
#51 En straightdope (una de las fuentes de consulta que están al pie del post) indica lo siguiente:
[...]Problem solved, eh? Not exactly. Plenty of old refrigerators, presumably bought in the first flush of postwar prosperity, were still out there, and as time went on and they began to be discarded, suffocation deaths rose. In 1961, after an 11-year-old boy died in a refrigerator in Brooklyn, hundreds of New York health inspectors prowled the city's vacant lots, yards, and cellars looking for old fridges and smashed the locks or removed the doors on 554 of them. Despite such efforts, at least 163 deaths were reported nationwide between 1956 and 1964, all in old-style fridges, and 96 between 1973 and 1984. The problem hasn't entirely disappeared--two kids in Guyana died in an old fridge in 2003. Though the press account is sketchy, odds are the thing had a mechanical latch.[...]