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In lugnet.general, James Brown writes:
> In lugnet.general, Jeff Thompson writes:
> > Well, there's got to be SOME differences between European kids and
> > American kids. After all, European children get firing cannons
> > in their sets, and American children don't. This is probably due
> > to cultural differences that give American kids violent or
> > self-destructive tendancies.
> >
> > (Kidding, kidding .... It's a JOKE! :^D)
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> I know, but...
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> Acutally, it has nothing to do with American children, and everything to do
> with American lawyers, and lawsuit paranoia. See:
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> http://www.lugnet.com/faq/?n=424
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> Q&D version: someone's kid choked on a shooting toy, someone sued and won,
> shooting toys banned for US markets.
Having grown up in that era (and as a kid who had shooting versions
of the Battlestar Galactica toys and who remembers the media hullaballoo
about that), I am still always amazed to see the number of
shooting toys on the market that shoot small, potentially-deadly
projectiles.
Obviously toy manufacturers have relaxed about this. I'm
amazed that there haven't been more choking deaths. A few of
the projectiles that the Aliens vs Predator toys fired look
throat-shaped-and-very-dangerous to me.
I suppose that as long as the projectile doesn't come out of a
long, phallic barrel (ie something that lends itself towards
being inserted deep into the throat), as they did on the
Colonial Viper spaceship toys, it's "OK" ....
--
jthompson@esker.com "Float on a river, forever and ever, Emily"
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| < Cross posted to off-topic.debate > (...) Well, this all leads back to parental responsibility, and teaching children about these things, which has been discussed to a great extent here at off-topic.debate. The government can't seem to protect us (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.general)
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| (...) I know, but... Acutally, it has nothing to do with American children, and everything to do with American lawyers, and lawsuit paranoia. See: (URL) version: someone's kid choked on a shooting toy, someone sued and won, shooting toys banned for (...) (25 years ago, 14-Dec-99, to lugnet.general, lugnet.dear-lego)
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