Hasta La Gadget!

Reports have suggested that as many as 95 percent of families install their newborns’ car seats incorrectly, almost 75 percent of parents face their children’s car seats the wrong way and many older kids aren’t using booster seats as recommended. Now a new study is underscoring why this matters.

A report published in the The Journal of Pediatrics presented the factors that may increase the likelihood of a child dying in a car accident in the U.S. based on four years of data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

Looking at 18,116 kids under the age of 15 who were involved in fatal crashes between 2010 and 2014, researchers found that 20 percent of these child passengers were improperly restrained or not restrained at all. This sample includes kids who survived the crashes and those who died.

Overall, nearly 16 percent of those children were killed in these fatal accidents. Forty-three percent of the children who died were unrestrained or improperly restrained, and 13 percent were inappropriately seated in the front seat of the car.

The data varied based on geography. 

“The majority of children involved in a fatal crash lived in the South (52 percent), with 21 percent in the West, 19 percent in the Midwest, and 7.5 percent in the Northeast,” the Journal of Pediatrics report notes. 

On a state level, car accident-related mortality rate per 100,000 children ranged from 0.25 per 100,000 in Massachusetts to 3.20 per 100,000 in Mississippi. 

Though 20 percent of children involved in fatal crashes across the U.S. were unrestrained or improperly restrained, that also number varied between states ― from just two percent in New Hampshire to 38 percent in Mississippi. 

In the United States, unintentional injury is the most common cause of pediatric death, and the motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of injury. 

In 2011, the American Academy of Pediatrics updated its guidelines on car seats to recommend that toddlers stay rear-facing until the age of 2, or until they exceed the height and weight limit for their seat.

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One honeymoon location just isn’t enough for Pippa Middleton and her new husband, James Matthews. 

The two jetted off to Tetiaroa, French Polynesia ― one of Obama’s recent vacation spots ― after their wedding last weekend. Apparently they’ve had their fill of South Pacific sun, as Middleton and Matthews were recently spotted in Sydney, Australia. 

On Wednesday, Middleton and her hubby climbed the famous Sydney Harbour Bridge at night. The bridge offers 360-degree views of Sydney and stands about 440 feet in the air.

The night climb costs around $253 – $388 for adults and can take up to 3.5 hours to complete. 

The couple is staying at the Park Hyatt Hotel in Sydney, which offers views of the Sydney Harbour and the Sydney Opera House, according to a press release.

So far, they’ve explored the city by way of a water taxi and a sea plane. The two recently flew a seaplane to lunch at the Cottage Point Inn, which looks like a cute spot for the newlyweds: 

Where will they jet off to next?

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You only need to know one thing about Chicago-area entrepreneur Steve Gadlin: He’s the guy who wants to sell 1,000 raccoon penis bones via Kickstarter.

And to prove it, he has created a truly memorable jingle that rams that point into the noggins of anyone who sees it. (You can watch it above.)

WARNING: The song is aggressively catchy and will lodge itself in your head for days on end. Seriously. Like, no joke.

Why is Gadlin willing to go to such extreme lengths, such as including crudely animated cartoon animals in his video, just to sell 1,000 raccoon penis bones?

Apparently because no one believes he can actually do it. Not his family, not his friends and certainly not anyone who’s not in the market for a raccoon penis bone.

Gadlin has a whole bag of them just in case he can hit the magic number. He even promises to send them in a plastic tube, presumably for that certain je ne sais quoi.

Can you say no to a face like this? (You don’t have to answer. It’s a rhetorical question). 

Gadlin doesn’t seem to care exactly what his potential customer base does with the raccoon penis bones, but notes on the Kickstarter page that some people “turn them into earrings, necklaces, and other forms of jewelry” and sell them on Etsy.

So far, the world isn’t exactly jumping to buy Gadlin’s 1,000 raccoon penis bones: He has attracted only $360 toward his $19,000 goal.

However, the campaign runs until July 1 so maybe he has time to convince 1,000 Americans to purchase his raccoon penis bones.

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