The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued a recall of a kid’s camping kit sold at Target over a potential fire hazard.
According to the CPSC, the tent in one model of the Circo Space Combo pack, which includes a children’s tent, sleeping bag, backpack and a headlamp, failed a flammability test and poses a fire hazard.
The tent is green and dark blue with planets, stars and figures printed on it. The packing box has the UPC number: 490911500926, DPCI: 091-15-0092. The DPCI can be found on the front of the packaging, above and to the right of the Circo logo.
The packs were sold exclusively at: Target stores nationwide and online at http://www.target.com from September 2010 through October 2010 for approximately $25.
Consumers should immediately stop using the recalled tents and return them to any Target store for a full refund or store credit.
For additional information, contact Target at (800) 440-0680 between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m. CT Monday through Friday, or visit the firm’s website at www.target.com.
Circo Children’s Camping Combo Pack Recalled Due to Fire Hazard; Sold Exclusively at Target Stores [CPSC]
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Think of the flaming children!!!
GLBT youth issues are very serious and should not be taken lightly.
I’m sure Target is taking it seriously
I am not gay, but I did spend many years being called gay, laughed at, and the like from the middle of elementary school to the middle of middle school. This was an obvious pun with no hate intended. I suppose you might also take offence to this:
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/literally
Or we could just enjoy a joke once in a while…
You know, it is actually possible for people of good faith to disagree about whether something is funny. It is also untrue that if you or I find a joke funny, anyone who does not find that joke funny is oversensitive, easily offended and simply lacking our wonderful sense of humor.
Yeah, but it’s way more possible to be a humorless scold. Way.
Whooosh! I suppose someone could also be equally offending by your reference to thinking of the children, because they themselves truly think of the children, often. In regards to safety.
Overanalyze much? It wasn’t remotely a gay joke until you came up with a reason to be offended.
Overserious much? It’s a joke in response to a joke, at least it looks that way.
My answer to him is “Whooosh!”
Oh quit whining. There are more important things to worry about than jokes that offend the 3% of people who think that everything should offend them.
I think they looked like this: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_D_Z-D2tzi14/TNeb3Rza7GI/AAAAAAAAEDE/g1UT8IX646A/s1600/dogs23.png
(Courtesy of Hyperbole and a Half)
LOL, I love how the flippers can withstand the fire.
Great, just great.
It failed a flammability test.
Somebodies lawyers scared the crap out of Target.
I suppose those Snuggies are perfect then?
Absolutely no chance of dying in a horribly disfiguring way while you adjust the fireplace?
How about that Playstation? Are you sure it’s safe. I mean electricity and plastic, come on. It was made to fail right?
I think the difference, since this deals with children, is that the tent and sleeping bag will be used while they sleep.
Young children sleep differently than adults do, and it can be much harder to wake a child. Flammability rules, with regard to children’s sleepwear and related things, exist because if they begin burning, it can sometimes not wake the child immediately.
As unrealistic as that sounds, it’s true.
Very true. Kids sleep crazy hard. Also it depends on how quickly things heat up. Think of the lobster. It doesn’t know it is being cooked alive because of the slow increase of heat, where if you just where to drop him in, it would freak out. Please don’t do that.
Wouldn’t you think they would run these tests prior to selling the items? Just kind of defeats the purpose.
… it’s fabric. Fabric is flammable & everyone knows this. I don’t see the issue.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_retardant#Textiles
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/inflammable.html
That always bothered me. We created a new word that totally defied our admittedly contradictory system of grammar, all because our own population doesn’t understand its own language.
Or…maybe it comes from “inflame” as in “to catch fire” or start burning. I don’t think inflammable was “created” by sticking in- on the front of flammable.
According to: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/inflammable
The history ‘inflammable’ dates back to the late 16th century and predates the word ‘flammable’ by 200 years. I guess I really do learn something every day.
Irregardless, both are words. And that website is pedantic and often wrong according to dictionaries.
Try soaking it in brominated flame retardants and your grandkids will look like the alien on the tent.
It does look like a kid standing in a fire pit on the design.
How many of these are going to come any where near a open fire? With no way to zip the bottom of the flaps closed I wouldn’t allow my children to camp outside in one of these. They are sold as a novelty that will be used to pretend to camp in doors and possibly played in during the day in the back yard no where near a fire.
When I was a kid, we used to camp in those kind of tents. You just lay down a ground cloth and will be fine.
Delicious
I was waiting for a comment like that. lol
That’s also a “pretend” tent for camping your back yard or living room. Did some idiot think this was a real tent?
The CPSC doesn’t issue recalls. It doesn’t have the power to. It was a voluntary recall by Circo.
Can we smear some of that tainted butter from the other post on the tent to make it better for the children.
The bigger thought at the front of my mind is “No one’s going to be camping in space!”