You forgot Alar and the dreaded MEDFLY that was going to eat all the fruits to extinction or something like that.
And I remember getting lectured by a cop in grade 2 or so (this would have been very early seventies), but I think he was just there to let us know about Officer Friendly, and how we should "look for a cop" if we were alone and in trouble. I don't think they were walking a beat any more even by that time. I do recall he passed around a bullet for us to examine, and I don't recall him advising us to wash our hands of the lead after. Naughty. Oh, and maybe he had some Elmer the Safety Elephant crap, too.
I think they were already pushing the "cigarettes are bad" thing, though, as I also vaguely recall getting my ass whipped for dropping a pack of smokes in the can.
Oh, yeah. Spawned the movie The Swarm, which was meant to compete with the superior Nightwing, which was also based on a minor, failed RL scare about vampire bats moving northward. I remember seeing these movies at the theatre/reading the latter book.
You forgot Alar and the dreaded MEDFLY that was going to eat all the fruits to extinction or something like that.
And I remember getting lectured by a cop in grade 2 or so (this would have been very early seventies), but I think he was just there to let us know about Officer Friendly, and how we should "look for a cop" if we were alone and in trouble. I don't think they were walking a beat any more even by that time. I do recall he passed around a bullet for us to examine, and I don't recall him advising us to wash our hands of the lead after. Naughty. Oh, and maybe he had some Elmer the Safety Elephant crap, too.
I think they were already pushing the "cigarettes are bad" thing, though, as I also vaguely recall getting my ass whipped for dropping a pack of smokes in the can.
Yeah, the medfly. And the killer bees! Who can forget the killer bees?
Oh, yeah. Spawned the movie The Swarm, which was meant to compete with the superior Nightwing, which was also based on a minor, failed RL scare about vampire bats moving northward. I remember seeing these movies at the theatre/reading the latter book.