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Useless People

by Jennifer

There are some sick and twisted people in the world. I’m not talking about the people who should be locked in a rubber room, or even those who prey on kids and should be attached to a high powered ceiling fan by their tender parts. I’m talking about people who tamper with products thinking its one giant joke. Remember the Elmo Potty scandal from last year?

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We all know Elmo. Elmo is a such a toddler icon, he has his own world. Elmo’s World … Elmo’s World … you get the idea. Well apparently some doofus from the lower end of the gene pool thought it would be funny to tamper with some of the latest Talking Elmo books. Some of a specific batch of “Potty Time with Elmo” books say “Who wants to die?” rather than “Who wants to try to go potty?”

Obviously a huge difference, and not one that’s necessarily fun to try to explain to a toddler. I don’t know what, if anything happened, I never heard if they caught the creep responsible. The general direction I’m heading with this though is this … what type of person finds this amusing? Did these people have a twisted childhood to create their twisted sense of humor, or was this something that they just developed as adults?

What’s wrong with some people?

UPDATE: Well, never let it be said that I’m perfect. I went in search of the answer to what eventually happened with this situation, and it turns out there was apparently no tampering found. What actually happened was an audio file got compressed to a point where a voice saying “Who wants to try to go potty” ended up as “Who wants to die?”. So now, rather than lay the blame at the feet of one twisted individual, I have to wonder how this was not somehow caught during the months and months of development?

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Posted in Books, General, Toys on March 4th, 2007

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  1. Leslie Says:
    March 4th, 2007 at 7:17 pm

    I’ll never understand why people do things like that either. I think you may be on to something when you mentioned a twisted childhood. Sometimes it seems that people who feel robbed of their childhood, for whatever reason, want to take it away from others.

  2. Twisted Cinderella Says:
    March 5th, 2007 at 10:35 am

    I am completely baffled by people sometimes. I don’t understand why they would do that.

  3. Deanna Says:
    March 5th, 2007 at 3:54 pm

    I actually just bought this book for my son a few weeks ago. Fortunately, ours has the correct messages and not the cryptic one!

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