Watch Around Water Says ‘Where Is Your Child?’ with Fake Dead People

Steve Hall

Feb. 10, 2024
1 min read

Australia’s Watch Around Water is placing images of a little drowned boy at the bottom of swimming pools.

At some point we figure people are going to catch onto this whole fake-dead-people-as -props trend, and when they do they’ll come across some real dead people and scoff. Then what are we going to do? Say “I’m sorry”?

No. The boy who cried wolf did that. Nobody believed him. – Contributed by Angela Natividad

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