When good toys go bad....

[Kaos]

http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/22/w...ts-to-toddler/ Tip us on news! RSS Feed | Category Feeds Engadget in: Español | | | When good toys go bad X: Elmo makes death threats to toddler Posted Feb 22nd 2008 11:48AM by Joshua Topolsky Filed under: Misc. Gadgets Sure, it seemed like after the years of hard drinking, petty crime, and run-ins with the law, 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." __________________________________________________ ____________ Damn!

[Mike70]

elmo's got a posse now the anti-DARE elmo

[p2501]

sheet, if i had to deal with small children all day death threats would be the least of their problems. as an unrelated side note does anyone know a decent place to buy (in bulk) burlap sacks and 10lb lengths of chain online?

[clanglee]

That is sooo disturbing and hilarious at the same time. Oh and P, go for the tough factory plastic bags, less mess.