Marcus Parks

The most tragic of which, of course, was the Abavan disaster of 1966.

That October, a huge pile of waste material from a local mine collapsed in the town of Abavan after heavy rains.

Now, this wouldn't have been an issue had the pile not been located on a mountain above the town against every safety regulation in existence.

But piled on a mountain it was.

And when it collapsed in the rain, it transformed into a raging flood of coal slurry, a godly fist of industrial waste.

140,000 tons of this shit rushed down the mountain and smashed into a local school, killing 116 children and 28 adults.

They died already.

horrible deaths involving either crushing or suffocation.

Jimmy Savile was, of course, soon on the scene fundraising money for the families of the Ababan disaster victims.

And since he was a former coal miner himself, Savile's efforts made him even more of a working class saint in the eyes of the British people.

He was always very, very good at attaching himself to something that was very emotional.

People would make that association in their brains.

Jimmy Savile, good man.

Savile, however, would always say he was only doing these events to encourage teenagers to help their fellow Brits, which raised his profile as a good, if strange, man even more.

Thank God 9-11 happened here.

Yeah.

God, he would have been down there with Steve Buscemi.

Oh, digging out.

Yeah.

Well, I mean, you know, Britain, they had their, was it March?