Marcus Parks

Well, because Jimmy Savile was now publicly rich, he started doing publicity stunts for charity, making huge shows of donating to the poor and donating to organizations that help the sick.

These stunts, of course, also did a great job of hiding who Jimmy Savile really was.

In one stunt, Jimmy worked in a Welsh coal mine to raise money to buy a guide dog for a miner who'd been blinded on the job.

That's just an example of like the small things that Jimmy Savile would show up for.

Yeah, to those miners, yeah.

Well, using his supposed time in the Bevan Boys, Savile actually managed to insert himself into every coal mining kerfluffle of the decade.

And there were many.

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.