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.'"

Comments

Re:Only in America!

[Doctor_Jest]

Shooting the gun isn't a gross misuse of the gun. It may be illegal to shoot another person, but firing the weapon is what it's designed for.

Swallowing a magnet isn't. Dumbass.

Re:First my beloved Viper fighter, now this

[sumdumass]

And the democratic government looked at the wishes of the citezens and responded.

Actually, no it wasn't a democratic government that banned them. It was an agency under the executive which happens to be controlled by the democrats who like to be referred to as democratic but that isn't the same as a democratic government. There is no evidence to date that any elected official played any part in the issue of the ban. Certainly no act of congress has happened specifically to this.

I can understand the confusion though, the article says they will fight the ban that was issued by Obama's hand picked agency.