Breaker, Breaker: Is There a Chuck E. Cheese Near a Stripper Bar?
A West Virginia Mother is attempting to get toymaker Fischer-Price to recall a line of working walkie-talkies after her three year-old heard real-life truckers on the line:
Via Fark.com.
Deborah Pancaro, 34, said she contacted Fisher-Price after she heard a conversation in which a man said “10-4” and other things that led her to believe the device was relaying a CB radio conversation.And, yes, the complaints are having an effect because -- all together now -- it's for the children:
“They said we should go smoke some weed, and were talking about being in a strip bar, some really explicit things,” Pancaro said Thursday.
The walkie-talkie is sold exclusively at Wal-Mart and allows children to role-play animal rescues like the Diego character does on the cartoon series “Dora the Explorer” and “Go, Diego, Go!”
The walkie-talkie is supposed to have a range of about 20 feet, but Pancaro said she heard one of the voices say he was driving on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, about 275 miles north of Huntington.
Though the product has not been recalled, Wal-Mart says on its Web site that it is being discontinued. A spokeswoman for the company based in Bentonville, Ark., said Thursday she would look into the matter.Read the whole thing here.
Pancaro said she planned to return Fisher-Price’s call later Thursday.
“It’s not about the money. I’d just hate for little kids to be hearing things like that, and I thought maybe they didn’t know.”
Via Fark.com.
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