It caught me off guard.  I opened a fresh package of Bounty paper towels and placed one of the rolls on the dispenser in my kitchen.  When I looked back at it I couldn't help but notice that the design print on this roll had a familiar look to it;  One of the design features looks like the top-half of the symbol that the Symbionese Liberation Army used in the 1970's. Their symbol was a seven-headed cobra.

Admittedly, there are differences:  The Bounty design has ten "heads" instead of seven and the "body" of the cobra is missing - but - for those of us who were around during the SLA's grip on America in the 1970's, it's hard not to look at the print and not see it.

Active in the early 1970's, the Symbionese Liberation Army was a rogue group of young adults who touted their angst against the establishment through violence, bank robberies, kidnappings, and murder.  While they primarily disappeared by the mid-70's, many of their members went underground to escape sentencing.  One of those members who hid for many years was Sara Jane Olson - who led a double-life in Minnesota for almost 30 years before getting caught.

It makes you wonder who designs the prints that appear on paper towels and - perhaps more importantly - why are they on there in the first place?

 

 

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