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Toymaker Playskool and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a recall Friday of about 255,000 of its "Team Talkin' Tool Bench" toys following the deaths of two young children. picked by dollyllama 2 years ago

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1	misterc

2 years ago

Proof that no amount of warnings can stop any sort of injury. I'm all about warning about choking hazards, but those things look pretty big. Plus, the toy was marked for children 3 and over, and it wasn't because kids wouldn't be interested in tools.

It's sad, but there's only so much you can do.

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1	CombatWo...

2 years ago

They need to use these toys to decide which children get to go to preschool.

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5	dollylla...

2 years ago

« They need to use these toys to decide which children get to go to preschool.

hahahaha.

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5	dollylla...

2 years ago

« Proof that no amount of warnings can stop any sort of injury. I'm all about warning about choking hazards, but those things look pretty big. Plus, the toy was marked for children 3 and over, and it wasn't because kids wouldn't be interested in tools.

It's sad, but there's only so much you can do.

You cannot protect people from themselves, no matter how much you legislate. And, you probably shouldn't. There is a natural law, which humans disrupt all the time. Wombat may have been being funny but the bottom line is, if you're too stupid to figure out the harm in something, you may have to pay the price. Survival of the fittest.

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