I read this article today on MSNBC. Let me just say that this shit has got to stop. It is not the toy's fault that a child gets hurt. Kids are fucking kids, they're going to get hurt, they're going to fall down, bump their heads, skin their knees, stuff shit in their mouths that they probably shouldn't. I remember when I was growing up if a kid did something stupid with a toy, well, shit happens. No one was suing anyone, toys didn't get recalled. It's called natural selection. Remember the Tonka Trucks, the metal ones, with the sharp ass edges, that would rust and everything? What the hell happened to those? Look, I'm not saying give a two year old who puts everything in his mouth a bunch of legos to play with, but have some sense. Buy toys for your kids that are for their age, for one, and stop being a bunch of goddamn pussies for two. Stop trying to blame things that happen to your kids on other people and maybe accept the fact that it could've been your fault the kid choked or stuck a fork in the light socket because you were too busy banging the pool boy or the kitchen maid to pay attention. Fuck, people, I have a kitten and I pay more attention to it than some of you pay to your children. These toys in this article should not have killed this kids. Look at the numbers. 255,000 recalled because TWO kids choked to death. These kids wouldn't have choked to death if someone had been paying attention to them. They are less than three years old, and here they are jamming a three inch long and an inch and a quarter wide toy down their throat, and no one does anything? These toys have been out for awhile, it's not like they just came out last week or something. Bah. Make your own opinion, but I say the parents are to blame in this one.
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CHICAGO - Playskool Friday said it was recalling 255,000 Team Talkin' Tool Bench toys after the deaths of two small children who suffocated when the head of an oversized plastic toy nail became lodged in their throats.
The unit of Hasbro Inc., said the two children were aged 19 months and 2 years. The toy is labeled for children 3-years old and up.
"While the circumstances surrounding these tragedies are not clear to us at this time, we went to the Consumer Product Safety Commission and initiated this voluntary recall out of an abundance of caution," Al Verrecchia, chief executive of Hasbro, said in a news release.
The nails involved in the incidents were more than three inches long and an 1-1/4 inches wide.
Hasbro is offering a $50 certificate to consumers who return the toy, which sold from October 2005 through September 2006 for about $35, the company said.
For instructions on how to return the toy nails and receive the certificate, consumers can call Playskool at (800) 509-9554 or go to www.playskool.com, the company said.
For the exact article including picture: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14952221/
