• Buying a wedding dress on Craiglist is cheap, but you also have to factor in the cost of removing the boob padding. [Another Fucking Wedding] “Wedding dress redux”
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The News; The Beat My Child Porn Skipped
By 6.27.06
• Maybe they should bring in Snoop Dogg, too. [CT] “GM goes back to 0% plan”
Toyota Recalls A Million Cars for Faulty Steering Wheel
By 6.1.06
If you own a Toyota Prius, you may want to bring it into your local dealership. Just pray that the steering wheel doesn’t break off in your hands on the way.
Baush Apologizes With Free Eye-Solution
By 5.26.06
Users of Baush & Lomb eyecare products received a letter today.
Lady Tells How Moistureloc Made Her Blind. Skeet. Skeet.
By 5.18.06
Here’s an eyewitness account of a user of the infamous Bausch & Lomb Renu Moisture Loc contact lens solution. She went blind in one eye. From the NYT:
Succumbing to Shirley Temple’s Deadly Charms
By 5.5.06
The children’s toy industry apparent refusal to stop putting lead in jewelry products lends itself to this morning’s best lede: “The good ship Lollipop has some unsafe cargo.”
Memo to The Evil Toymakers
By 4.27.06
An open letter from a tort professor and dad to the makers of lead-laden products targeted at children:
The Week in Product Recalls: Poisonings, Burns, Strangulations, Deadly Chickens
By 2.24.06
Hazard: “The recalled charms contain high levels of lead, posing a serious risk of lead poisoning and adverse health effects to young children.”
The Week In Product Recalls: Strangulations, Infernos, Boo-Boos.
By 2.17.06
s Sweatshirts with Drawstrings Recalled for Strangulation Hazard
Recall of the Week: Flaming Stihl Chain Saw
By 1.17.06
Although the recall for the Stihl MS 192 Chain Saw is not nearly as gory as we might have hoped, the fact that the chain saws can “leak fuel” and then spark to create a fire leads to some interesting mangling opportunities. It would, however, make the chopping down of trees for heat a more efficient process.
Recall of the Week: Bounce Bounce Baby!
By 12.16.05
Although we can think of few things more appealing than leaving a child to hang in an elastic death trap, we must avoid the Bounce Bounce Baby! Door jumper, despite its potential for comedy. It seems the jumper is a “Hazard: The plastic clamp that attaches the jumper seat to a door frame can break, which can cause the unit and child to fall to the floor. This poses an injury hazard to young children.”
Recall of the Week: Chuck E. Cheese’s Chokey Whistle
By 12.9.05
It would appear that losing an arm to an animatronic bear is now the second-leading injury at Chuck E. Cheese. These plastic siren whistles have been recalled as a choking hazard, with reports that at least three children “swallow[ed] pieces of the plastic siren whistle,” setting the stage for the most festive asphyxiation ever.
