[AntiGuv]

How often do you hear about kids suffocating in refrigerators anymore? And, is it really such an evil oppression to require safer trunks?

[SteveMcKing]

There's already a requirement for saftey latches. However they can be a bit tricky, not something a panicing child would be able to figure out in the dark. The design should be made simpler to operate.

[arthurus]

It is illegal to dispose of refrigerators with their doors still attached now and as far as I know car trunks are not airtight and new ones are made with internal releases. I am dubious about those releases. As a taxi driver many years ago, I was strongarmed and a knife was held to my neck for my cash. The two gentlemen had not thought out the action and were wondering what to do with me and were speculating about the usefulness of nearby shrubbery. I did not like the sound of that at all and told them the way it is done is to lock the victim into the trunk where he can't get out until the car is found and they don't have a murder rap. They liked that suggestion. If trunks were easy to get out of, I probably would have been left in the bushes. The two fellows were caught holding up a gas station a couple of hours later. They had been released from the state prison the day previous.

[in the Arena]

How often do you hear about kids suffocating in refrigerators anymore?

Refrigerators went to magnetic seals rather than mechanical latches...