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Old 12-13-2000, 06:47 AM
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It's that time of year again. Time for the media to shit their pants over 2000's RECALLED TOYS! These always irk me. Some of them I understand. With one of the Scooters, the handles come off, etc. But some of them are just plain stupid. This is a little bit of old news, but the Pokemon balls from Burger King that were recalled about a year ago because kids kept suffocating themselves with the ball halves. C'mon. Where the hell are the parents? And doesn't a kid have enough sense to think, "Breathing is getting pretty hard with this ball half over my face. I should take it off." What do they do, fall on them or something? I would really like to know, because it boggles the mind how some of these toys kill children! Or with some of these toys, they are too dangerous for young kids anyway, and are often labled so on the box (labled ages 10 +, yes, but it's not labled "This toy could KILL a child under 10), yet parents buy them, the kids get hurt, and the toy companies recall them before they could get sued.

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