Elmo Goes Rouge in Florida
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It’s almost like a scene out of Child’s Play, where the evil Chucky doll becomes murderous. In this case, though, the doll is red and fuzzy and last seen speaking n baby talk on Sesame Street. His name is Elmo and he wants to kill James.
What?
A family in Lithia, Florida (a suburb of Tampa) says that when their son’s Knows Your Name doll ran out of batteries, they replaced said batteries and the doll began to display an alarming new vocabulary. The doll is supposed to which connect to a computer to learn certain phases and names. The newest phrase is “Kill James”.
The Bowman family was not amused. Although the toy is James’ favorite, it is now being kept away from the boy. In the meantime, manufacturer Fisher-Price says it will give the Bowmans a voucher for a new doll and examine James’ model for the source of the problem and check whether other dolls are malfunctioning in similar ways.
One has to wonder if this doll was manufactured in China. If it was me, I’d skip the voucher and sell the doll on eBay. Of course, I would probably receive bad feedback when the buyer received the doll and realized the poor doll was just trying to say “Tickle James”.
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