# Miami Company Pulling Candy Bags With Toy Depicting 9-11 Attack **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 27, 2004, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miami-company-pulling-candy-bags-with-toy-depicting-9-11-attack/261833 "2004-08-27T20:04:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2004, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miami-company-pulling-candy-bags-with-toy-depicting-9-11-attack/261833/1 "2004-08-27T20:04:21Z")
From this [abcnews.com article](http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20040827_1220.html): > [@](#): > > MIAMI Aug. 27, 2004 — Small toys showing an airplane flying into the World Trade Center were packed inside more than 14,000 bags of candy and sent to small groceries around the country before being recalled. > Lisy Corp., the wholesaler that distributed the candy, said Friday that the toys were purchased in bulk from a Miami-based import company. From the rest of the article, it sounds as if it’s too soon to blame the import company. Lisy Corp claims they packaged the toy with the candy “sight-unseen”, assuming that it was, as was claimed on the packaging, a swingset. Somewhere, somehow, there is a sick mind at work behind the creation, manufacture and distribution of these things. ---
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2004, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miami-company-pulling-candy-bags-with-toy-depicting-9-11-attack/261833/2 "2004-08-27T20:28:58Z")
Would it be a bad thing to say that I want one? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Dan\_Norder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4af34b/32.png) [@Dan\_Norder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dan_Norder)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2004, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miami-company-pulling-candy-bags-with-toy-depicting-9-11-attack/261833/3 "2004-08-27T20:48:42Z")
OK, I saw a pic of the thing… it’s a big round toonish plane between two nondescript city buildings… the plane is there in the middle on what might be a hinge so it might rotate. I’m not entirely sure it was intended to be a toy about the plane attack. If you hadn’t known about 9/11 you’d never think this was supposed to be a plane flying into the building. I think it might be just another case of rampant hysteria here in the U.S., like the people who objected to the name of the second LOTR movie and the ones who complained about an image of a dragonfly near a plastic cup of coffee (thinking the dragonfly was crashing into it or some nonsense). ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2004, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miami-company-pulling-candy-bags-with-toy-depicting-9-11-attack/261833/4 "2004-08-27T20:52:54Z")
I don’t get the point of the toy, but it is evocative, isn’t it? Poor taste, definitely. Intentional? I don’t know yet. But the code of “9011” on the toy is certainly a little :dubious: , don’t you think? ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2004, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miami-company-pulling-candy-bags-with-toy-depicting-9-11-attack/261833/5 "2004-08-27T20:56:09Z")
> [@ParentalAdvisory](#): > > Would it be a bad thing to say that I want one? :eek: Yes, you’d definitely go to hell for it. But damn, that’s a cute little airplane. Cute but evil. I wonder if it spins? ---
**Author:** ![Dan\_Norder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4af34b/32.png) [@Dan\_Norder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dan_Norder)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2004, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miami-company-pulling-candy-bags-with-toy-depicting-9-11-attack/261833/6 "2004-08-27T21:02:12Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > But the code of “9011” on the toy is certainly a little :dubious: , don’t you think? Yeah, if it weren’t for that I’d be firmly convinced it had nothing to do with 9/11 and that people were completely crazy. The number could be a coincidence, or a bad joke someone assigning production numbers did to an otherwise inoffensive toy, but I don’t know. I definitely do want one though. It’s cute. Somebody hook me up. ---
**Author:** ![tisiphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@tisiphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tisiphone)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2004, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miami-company-pulling-candy-bags-with-toy-depicting-9-11-attack/261833/7 "2004-08-27T21:07:08Z")
> [@Squink](#): > > Yes, you’d definitely go to hell for it. But damn, that’s a cute little airplane. Cute but evil. I wonder if it spins? Yep. Yahoo had/has a link to a video clip showing it. I want one too!!! ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2004, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miami-company-pulling-candy-bags-with-toy-depicting-9-11-attack/261833/8 "2004-08-27T21:07:18Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > Intentional? I don’t know yet. But the code of “9011” on the toy is certainly a little :dubious: , don’t you think? The left tower also seems to have an antenna-like top thingy and the other does not, similar to the twin towers… :dubious: Although the toy towers are indigo in color. Still… ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2004, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miami-company-pulling-candy-bags-with-toy-depicting-9-11-attack/261833/9 "2004-08-27T21:07:57Z")
> [@ParentalAdvisory](#): > > Would it be a bad thing to say that I want one? :eek: If you can manage to get one in the original package, it could be worth some serious scratch in a couple of decades. ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2004, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miami-company-pulling-candy-bags-with-toy-depicting-9-11-attack/261833/10 "2004-08-27T21:14:50Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > If you can manage to get one in the original package, it could be worth some serious scratch in a couple of decades. Nah, this is a right now kind of thing. Throw these suckers on Ebay before the week is out if you want your money. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2004, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miami-company-pulling-candy-bags-with-toy-depicting-9-11-attack/261833/11 "2004-08-27T21:27:57Z")
> [@tisiphone](#): > > Yep. Yahoo had/has a link to a video clip showing it. > > I want one too!!! The Yahoo video link is on [this page](http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=718&e=4&u=/ap/20040827/ap_on_re_us/9_11_toy). You can put me down for one, too. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2004, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miami-company-pulling-candy-bags-with-toy-depicting-9-11-attack/261833/12 "2004-08-27T22:01:03Z")
Um, have any of the skeptics noticed the the plane is FLYING INTO the building, not between them? ---
**Author:** ![Dan\_Norder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4af34b/32.png) [@Dan\_Norder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dan_Norder)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2004, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miami-company-pulling-candy-bags-with-toy-depicting-9-11-attack/261833/13 "2004-08-27T22:18:55Z")
> [@lissener](#): > > Um, have any of the skeptics noticed the the plane is FLYING INTO the building, not between them? So, what, your claiming it’s realistically meant to be a crash? It’s flying into the far building after someone in the other builing open a window and let it out? Because if it were meant to be realistic it would have hit the first one already and never got between them. It may or may not be meant to be the real two towers (and if the antenna thing is valid, looking moreso), but you can’t try using it’s flight path to prove it. ---
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2004, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miami-company-pulling-candy-bags-with-toy-depicting-9-11-attack/261833/14 "2004-08-27T23:00:57Z")
So we’ve got 14,000 units of these things. There’s some money to be made here. They say it depicts the 9/11 attacks. I say it depicts what’s wrong with political correctness of this country. > [@](#): > > I was offended because I couldn’t believe that someone would give something like that to a kid. I’ll buy 2! ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2004, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miami-company-pulling-candy-bags-with-toy-depicting-9-11-attack/261833/15 "2004-08-27T23:29:37Z")
I am pretty sure that I don’t qualify as a member of the Offenderati, and I definitely can allow for some demented humor. I have an extremely difficult time believing, though, that this toy is anything but what it appears to be. Taking the extremely high road, even if this was a toy that was, say, designed before 9/11, there’s no way someone looked at this thing before distributing it today and didn’t say… “Y’know, maybe someone might take this the wrong way.” Taking a slightly less elevated road, who would ever design a toy of a plane between two skyscrapers? What does the one have to do with the other, except when referring to 9/11. All that being said, I’m actually in the camp that wouldn’t mind having one. I just don’t think it’s very cool that this was put into a bag of lollipops and given away as a toy. Interesting novelty for demented freaks like me? Definitely. Appropriate toy for a kid? Definitely not. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2004, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miami-company-pulling-candy-bags-with-toy-depicting-9-11-attack/261833/16 "2004-08-27T23:37:53Z")
> [@TellMeI'mNotCrazy](#): > > there’s no way someone looked at this thing before distributing it today and didn’t say… “Y’know, maybe someone might take this the wrong way.” I thought the same thing back when Led Zeppelin put out their first two albums. The Humanity, oh the humanity!, and all that. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2004, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miami-company-pulling-candy-bags-with-toy-depicting-9-11-attack/261833/17 "2004-08-28T00:01:07Z")
Horrible. Just horrible. The scale is _completely_ off. ---
**Author:** ![peri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/67e7ee/32.png) [@peri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peri)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2004, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miami-company-pulling-candy-bags-with-toy-depicting-9-11-attack/261833/18 "2004-08-28T03:03:30Z")
I want one. With a button activated confetti flinger. ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2004, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miami-company-pulling-candy-bags-with-toy-depicting-9-11-attack/261833/19 "2004-08-28T16:27:27Z")
> [@TellMeI'mNotCrazy](#): > > Taking a slightly less elevated road, who would ever design a toy of a plane between two skyscrapers? What does the one have to do with the other, except when referring to 9/11. Kids like spinning plans, so the plane spins. In order for it to spin, it needs to be suspended between two objects. Kids like really big buildings. Therefore, it’s suspended between two big skyscrapers. Oops. To be honest, though, I could see myself going through that thought process without ever thinking of 9/11. And, since 9/11 happened during the first couple of weeks of college for me–and is therefore as much a part of my psyche as the anti-war riots are a part of my mother’s psyche–I could see someone else doing it. I guess I just can’t be offended. It seems innocent. Really, really freakin’ dumb, but innocent. ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2004, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miami-company-pulling-candy-bags-with-toy-depicting-9-11-attack/261833/20 "2004-08-28T16:31:46Z")
> [@Angel of the Lord](#): > > I guess I just can’t be offended. It seems innocent. Really, really freakin’ dumb, but innocent. Maybe. But i’m still having trouble believing that putting the number “9011” on the toy was a completely innocent mistake. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/miami-company-pulling-candy-bags-with-toy-depicting-9-11-attack/261833.md?page=2)