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Feds Ban 'Buckyballs' Magnets
SicariusMan writes "Looks like warnings and other precautions were not enough to save Buckyballs Magnets. According to this report, the Consumer Product Safety Commission is concerned about the increase in children swallowing the rare earth magnets, and has issued its first stop-sale order in 11 years. Amazon and others have already agreed to stop selling the toys. 'Although the commission issued a safety alert in November, it has received more than a dozen reports since then of children ingesting the magnets, with many requiring surgery, it said. More than 2 million Buckyballs and at least 200,000 Buckycubes, a similar cube-shaped magnet, have been sold in the United States.'"
Thanks to Woot! I now own several million Buckyball magnets. I was waiting for the rare Earth metal market to skyrocket before cashing in, but this may be my chance. Hello Ebay!
What's so special about these magnets?
Children can swallow any kind of magnet you find in toys.
It should be up to the parents to ensure the child is old enough not to swallow the damn thing.
Next up: crayons banned because kids stick them up their nose.
Soon we'll be battling the Buckyball cartels in the streets of America. I say end prohibition now!
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Looks like I'll just have to get my kid Lawn Darts for Christmas instead.
How about a ban on stupid trailer-park dumbass kids who ruin it for the rest of us?
They already tried that. You may have heard of "Planned Parenthood"...
There's no place like
Uh-oh someone rocked your trailer in the wrong way.
I'm not saying lets kill all the stupid people, I'm just suggesting we remove all the warning labels and let nature sort it out.
Hey, at least we know that it reality it takes at least a dozen dumbass kids now to ruin it for everyone else... The Onion pegged it at three, back in the day.
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
nail, rock, and used condom...
Call me old fashioned, but I always preferred rock, paper, scissors.
I had lawn darts. Flying Death From Above is what we called them, and that's the way we liked it!
The best part is when the dumbasses say things like "we did much worse things in my day and *I* survived!". Of course you survived, you fucking asshole, all the kids who didn't aren't here to say they died.
I knew an old lady who swallowed a fly;
I don't know why she swallowed a fly;
I guess she'll start a PAC and sue the blue sky.
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"It is now safe to switch off your computer."
Rock dulls nail, condom covers rock, nail breaks condom!
So what you're saying is that someone needs to make a gun that shoots Buckyballs, and then we can buy them again?
They can have my Buckyballs when they pry them from my cold, dead.... intestines.
nonsig. unsig. desig.
Yes, because as everyone agrees, the federal government should be in the business of picking and choosing which genes get passed on based on your biased opinion and pushing birth control and abortions onto the unworthy.
I'm sorry your quest to create an utopian super race of humans are being thwarted by those selfish religious nuts but hey, look on the bright side, government funding of planned parenthood was only a small portion of their overall budget so Margret Sanger's dream of Eugenics will still be somewhat in place.
Yes, the surgery is needed. If swallowed the magnetic balls stick together through the intestine walls, cutting off circulation and eventually punching holes in the intestines through which the intestinal contents leak into the abdomen. That's just a little fatal without surgery.
But why do you need to waste money on a surgeon?
Can't you just put the kid in an MRI and rip the magnets out?