In a story with shades of the Chucky series, a mother in Tampa was shocked to discover that a talking Elmo doll was making death threats to her son.
Melissa Bowman claims that the Elmo Knows Your Name doll she gave to her 2-year-old son James repeatedly said the phrase "Kill James" in an eerie sing-song voice:
"It's not something that really you would think would ever come out of a toy. But once I heard, I was just kind of distraught."
Thinking that perhaps Elmo's voice was impaired due to low power, she replaced the batteries on the doll. BUT ELMO KEPT THREATENING TO KILL HER SON!!!!
James is now no longer allowed to play with Elmo Knows Your Name. Fisher-Price is investigating.
Yeah, smooth move putting batteries into a toy that wants to kill your son because you think it's low on power.
ReplyDelete"Yeah, smooth move putting batteries into a toy that wants to kill your son because you think it's low on power."
ReplyDeletewhat she didn't know was that the Elmo doll used that extra battery power to become more evil...
How is this surprising?
ReplyDeleteIt's Elmo.
Pure evil.
Elmo knows where James is sleeping, too.
ReplyDeleteFisher-Price gave the mom a voucher for new toys. I'd say steer clear of the talking, walking, shaking, giggling dolls.
ReplyDeleteNever happened with Lincoln Logs.
ReplyDeletetalking, walking, shaking, giggling... stabbing..
ReplyDelete@nilskioo: there was that incident in Kentucky back in '75 with a set of blood-stained Lincoln Logs. Police never did solve that...
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