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digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/gadgets/When_good_toys_go_bad_X_Elmo_makes_death_threats_to_toddler’; Sure, it seemed like after the years of hard drinking, petty crime, and run-ins with the law, Elmo had cleaned up his act — but a shocking report out of Tampa Bay, Florida, says otherwise. A two-year-old’s life has been turned upside down by vicious talk coming from his favorite toy, Elmo Knows Your Name. It seems that after a recent battery change, the PC-interfacing doll began spouting death threats of “kill James” at the toddler, with seemingly no explanation as to how the new phrase entered his vocabulary. The situation came to a head when the boy’s mother heard her son repeating the twisted suggestion. Of course, what she didn’t hear was Elmo’s other threat: that he would “cut anyone who crossed [him] end-to-end with a Bowie knife,” and, “dine on their internal organs.” Fisher Price says it has a team of experts working on the case, and enough tranquilizer darts to put Elmo down, “For good.”

[Thanks, Jordan]

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Note to parents: if you’d like your tweens not to run up extraordinary bills on the shared credit card when they head out to the mall, start by passing on Barbie’s Fashion Fever Shopping Boutique playset. This innocent looking package allows youngsters to shop ’til they drop with fake plastic, but rather than actually hitting a credit limit and getting rejected, the card delivers the wrong message by simply allowing kids to spend as much dough as they’d like without any negative consequences. Take a look at the commercial after the jump.

[Via Gearlog]

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