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You read that right. One of these: https://www.vat19.com/item/air... will kill a drone from 40 feet. And that's basically a breadbag cannon. A three inch plastic pipe and a can of butane gets you an air cannon with a range of a couple hundred feet. Drop in a tennis ball, you're firing that thing a quarter mile with a kill range of one hundred yards.

Mind showing the left side of that package, or would such honesty interfere with your agenda?

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Same exact packaging you show. Except in these pictures you can see the left side of the packaging more easily. The warning is pretty obvious to me.

This should satisfy your needs: Inkless Metal Pen. I have one..... Somewhere in the mess of my desk. It works really well! I haven't had any long term results yet, seeing as I don't know exactly where it is, but I love(d) it!

It's impossible to keep small magnets away from young children even with the best efforts.

It is not. Buckyballs aren't ubiquitous. Honestly, if it's that big of a risk, why have them around babies/toddlers in the first place? These simply aren't for children.

The Buckeyballs are marketed to 14-year-olds.

Citations please? A Buckyballs 3rd party site states for Adults only, as does the GetBuckyBalls main site. AGoogle cache of Think Geek lists them as Adults Only.

Are you saying that 14-year-olds should be held responsible if younger children ingest them?

Way to put words in my mouth! I never mentioned anything about 14 year olds! But since you bring it up, did the hypothetical 14yo instruct the younger child(ren) to ingest them? If so, yes. Seriously though the responsibility for the well being of a child falls upon the parent. Are you arguing that it's not a parent's responsibility if a child does something out of sight then, like break someone's window? What if your child shoots up a school? the parents of two teenagers were sued after Columbine.

The only way to resolve this is in court. We'll see whether the jury thinks Zucker has any responsibility.

Curiously absent are the parents who weren't watching their snowflakes play hungry hungry hippos with something they're not supposed to have in the first place.

The problem is that, if you have 2 of them, they don't pass through the intestine like the other stuff kids swallow. They pinch 2 sections of intestine together, crush them, and cause necrosis and blockage, and, like you said, perforation. The kids can die. They need fairly invasive surgery. There weren't too many deaths, but there were a few. The people who brought them to the attention of the CPSC were the emergency room doctors who were dealing with them.

Let me guess, let's blame Hungry Hungry Hippos or Crossfire for encouraging this behavior. WTF what were the parents doing while their children were gobbling these things down? And more importantly how did they get them?

Craig Zucker is an asshole.

Hardly unique to him. Unless you're trying to tie this to the poor victims digestive tract, no? Perhaps this is the beginning of a new Youtube Challenge akin to the ice and salt "challenge".

I realize his problem with selling a popular, profitable product, but they've been responsible for a couple of deaths. Too bad. You can't make a million dollars if a 6-year-old kid dies as a result.

You'll make more than a million! See Cigarettes, Alcohol, Cars, Hammers, Aspirin...

he's going to get sued by the next parent whose kid winds up in the ER over them ... I can see Zucker being cross-examined: "You did know that several children had died from swallowing these buckeyballs, didn't you?"

Why are we allowing the parents to side step the responsibility? You're supposed to supervise children. The product isn't even marketed at children. Turn that around "You allowed your child who nearly died to ingest powerful rare earth magnets because...?" Ages: Adults only (Keep away from all children). Anyone who provides these to children and cries foul is an idiot.

This is what you need...

I love vat19

http://www.vat19.com/dvds/h20-water-candle-kit.cfm

They did, but on Diemos. Unfortunately, here's a beauty contest photo.