These toy recalls are reaching idiotic levels...

[zinfamous]

Heh. My Mom told me that when they were infants my Grandma would wrap them up in blankets and put them on the floorboard in the back seat.

lol! that image is just awesome.

 

[theflyingpig]

100% kid safe

lol. Nothing escapes the stupidity of American children. An American child can die from something as harmless as a plastic bag, because he's too stupid to take it off his head. Everyone knows this.

 

[waggy]

lol. Nothing escapes the stupidity of American children. An American child can die from something as harmless as a plastic bag, because he's too stupid to take it off his head. Everyone knows this.

in part you are right. but it should be "nothing escapes the stupidity of children"

kids are stupid. they do dumb stuff. but damn this recall is idiotic.

 

[Kirby]

Think of the children, OP! THE CHILDREN!!!!

 

[vi edit]

Think of the children, OP! THE CHILDREN!!!!

I did. I thought of the other 1,074,993 that were not injured.

 

[InflatableBuddha]

I did. I thought of the other 1,074,993 that were not injured.

Wait a minute. Did no one else notice that the OP is a sensible, reasonable, responsible parent trapped in a litigious, lackadaisical, irresponsible and over-controlled modern society?

Quick! Someone interview him! He's the real story!

 

[KeithP]

The US Government wants stupid people to breed as much as possible raising even less intelligent children. This makes it easier for government officials to do whatever the heck they want because the voters are idiots.

So, instead of morons getting selected out of the gene pool by their actions, we have products that can't possibly cause injury or death, even to those with the intellect of a bag of hammers.

Everyone knows this.

-KeithP

 

[vi edit]

The US Government wants stupid people to breed as much as possible raising even less intelligent children. This makes it easier for government officials to do whatever the heck they want because the voters are idiots.

I'd like to have recurring "cull the herd year" where say...every 5 years we just turn off all saftey things like stability control in cars, stop doing recalls on stupid things like this topic brought up, gangbangers coming into the ED with gunshot wounds aren't treated, people OD'ing on controlled substances aren't treated, obese people with heart attacks aren't given emergent surgeries, ect.

You know, just to sort of thin out those that really put an unnecessary drag on the emergency, legal, and financial services of the country.

 

[sactoking]

I agree with the OP about the ridiculousness of recalls lately. I would like to point out that the article linked misses a key point. Check out http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100930/ap_on_bi_ge/us_fisher_price_recall.

The OP linked article says

The trikes have a protruding key causing 10 reported injuries.

The Yahoo! article says

The trikes — some of which feature popular characters like Dora the Explorer and Barbie — have a protruding plastic ignition key near the seat that children can strike, sit on or fall on, leading to injuries that the commission said can include genital bleeding.

Call me old-fashined, but genital bleeding is NOT funny. I don't want my son's genitals to be at risk of bleeding. I can definitely understand the trike recall. Just thinking of genital bleeding makes me cringe.

 

[aka1nas]

Did anyone actually read the article? This was a voluntary recall by the manufacturer. Nothing wrong with a company deciding to do the right thing and fix a product that they feel is poorly designed.

 

[crashtestdummy]

My all-time favorite recall: Aqua Dots

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquadots#Recall

 

[vi edit]

Did anyone actually read the article? This was a voluntary recall by the manufacturer. Nothing wrong with a company deciding to do the right thing and fix a product that they feel is poorly designed.

The article was just a quick link I threw out. The news blurb I saw this morning said nothing about voluntary recall. They just overdramatized the situation and made it sound like these things were seriously maiming children when it just ended up being a few kids that wound up with stitches.

 

[zinfamous]

The Yahoo! article says


Call me old-fashined, but genital bleeding is NOT funny. I don't want my son's genitals to be at risk of bleeding. I can definitely understand the trike recall. Just thinking of genital bleeding makes me cringe.

just what we need....another circumcision thread.

 

[KeithTalent]

Man, all of my best scars came from when I was little. Damn parents, turning their kids into wimps.

KT

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

Parents are freaking insane.

Advertsisers are mostly to blame. To many people I know have become F'ing germophobes to. I sometimes wipe food on dirty objects in front of germophbes just to prove a point, but they don't get it.

 

[dighn]

Advertsisers are mostly to blame. To many people I know have become F'ing germophobes to. I sometimes wipe food on dirty objects in front of germophbes just to prove a point, but they don't get it.

lol enjoy your parasites

that reminds me. i haven't washed my hands in the last hour.

 

[FoBoT]

its all part of their plan, the govt. will control all aspects of our lives

 

[Jeff7]

It's not just the kids.
Padded lampposts in London to protect distracted texters.
Keeping people from the stress and danger of "Watching where you're walking."

 

[SaDiZTiKStyLeZ]

At this rate, they'll be recalling coathangers.

 

[IronWing]

its all part of their plan, the govt. will control all aspects of our lives

You're on a roll tonight.

Anyway, the most damage I ever took as a kid was falling down the basement stairs, multiple times. Maybe we should ban basements or stairs.

 

[rh71]

<-- still using 2 drop-side cribs... of course the kids are over 2 now so not as worried about them being unable to get out of the situation it was recalled for.

And I can't believe they are recalling a tricycle because of a protruding key. The thing is rounded... they have those keys in the little yellow buggies with the roof. I watch my kids like a hawk - keep them from dangerous corners and objects more than the avg person would... and I still don't think that's a real hazard.

 

[StrangerGuy]

And then we have idiots sterilizing everything and their immune systems becomes weak and pathogens develop resistance to disinfectants we spent so much resources to develop. If there is anything to ban this should be the first on the list.

 

[SaDiZTiKStyLeZ]

Some people already have compromised immune systems before all of that...

 

[MotF Bane]

People are fucking stupid.

 

[DivideBYZero]

One of my sisters twins fell over in the kitchen and busted his lower lip. I'm going to have the floor recalled and planet Earth served with a class action suit.