I was very interested to read your account of the failed ‘Safe Smack’ child discipline strap and accompanying video. For very personal reasons, I remember this all too well!
Although your story states that ‘Uncle Sam Smack never got to chastise the bottoms of the UK’s naughty children’, I can in fact tell you that my own bottom (and that of my younger sister), was on the receiving end of quite a few spankings from this implement.