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22-Feb-2008, 05:13 PM
http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/22/when-good-toys-go-bad-x-elmo-makes-death-threats-to-toddler/
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When good toys go bad X: Elmo makes death threats to toddler
Posted Feb 22nd 2008 11:48AM by Joshua Topolsky (http://www.engadget.com/bloggers/joshua-topolsky)
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Sure, it seemed like after the years of hard drinking, petty crime, and run-ins with the law, Elmo (http://www.engadget.com/tag/Elmo/) had cleaned up his act -- but a shocking report out of Tampa Bay, Florida, says otherwise. A two-year-old's life has been turned upside down by vicious talk coming from his favorite toy, Elmo Knows Your Name. It seems that after a recent battery change, the PC-interfacing doll began spouting death threats of "kill James" at the toddler, with seemingly no explanation as to how the new phrase entered his vocabulary. The situation came to a head when the boy's mother heard her son repeating the twisted suggestion. Of course, what she didn't hear was Elmo's other threat: that he would "cut anyone who crossed [him] end-to-end with a Bowie knife," and, "dine on their internal organs." Fisher Price says it has a team of experts working on the case, and enough tranquilizer darts to put Elmo down, "For good."
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When good toys go bad X: Elmo makes death threats to toddler
Posted Feb 22nd 2008 11:48AM by Joshua Topolsky (http://www.engadget.com/bloggers/joshua-topolsky)
Filed under: Misc. Gadgets (http://gadgets.engadget.com/)
http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/02/elmo_knife.jpg
Sure, it seemed like after the years of hard drinking, petty crime, and run-ins with the law, Elmo (http://www.engadget.com/tag/Elmo/) had cleaned up his act -- but a shocking report out of Tampa Bay, Florida, says otherwise. A two-year-old's life has been turned upside down by vicious talk coming from his favorite toy, Elmo Knows Your Name. It seems that after a recent battery change, the PC-interfacing doll began spouting death threats of "kill James" at the toddler, with seemingly no explanation as to how the new phrase entered his vocabulary. The situation came to a head when the boy's mother heard her son repeating the twisted suggestion. Of course, what she didn't hear was Elmo's other threat: that he would "cut anyone who crossed [him] end-to-end with a Bowie knife," and, "dine on their internal organs." Fisher Price says it has a team of experts working on the case, and enough tranquilizer darts to put Elmo down, "For good."
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Damn! :eek: