Report: Elmo Doll Threatens To Kill Toddler

[White Rain]

This is something I'd have to hear to believe.

It sounds like something the talking doll Chucky from the movies might say: "Kill James!" Instead, a Florida family says the threat to their toddler is coming from a talking Elmo doll.
The Bowman family, of Lithia, Fla., said an Elmo doll belonging to their 2-year-old son, James, began to spout death threats towards him after they changed its batteries, TBO.com reports.
The Elmo Knows Your Name Doll started saying "Kill James!" in a sing-song voice, the site reports.
"It's not something that really you would think would ever come out of a toy," James' mother, Melissa, told the site. "But once I heard, I was just kind of distraught."
The toy's manufacturer, Fisher-Price, said it will issue the Bowmans a voucher for a replacement doll, TBO.com reports.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,331991,00.html

 

[hipmamajen]

Yeah, I'd need to hear this. I wonder if it's supposed to be saying something else and it sounds like that, or if it's just wearing down or something...

 

[MagicRose99]

Here's the link for the video of the story... Elmo really is saying it! LOL!

http://www.tbo.com/video/xml/MGBBBA7WXCF.html

 

[White Rain]

Holy smokes it is! BUT...
didn't the video say something about the doll can be hooked to a coomputer and programmed to say certain things?
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm............:waitasec:

 

[Cubby]

Holy smokes it is! BUT...
didn't the video say something about the doll can be hooked to a coomputer and programmed to say certain things?
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm............:waitasec:

Yes it did. I wonder if someone in the household or someone visiting programmed the doll to say this.

 

[SeriouslySearching]

They need to sell that one on Ebay!!

 

[Annie]

Yes it did. I wonder if someone in the household or someone visiting programmed the doll to say this.

I would think it would have to be done at the factory if it uses the same voice as the other things it says.

 

[dingo]

Evil Elmo

 

[Truly]

Awww...Elmo is so sweet. I'm going to guess there's a twelve-year-old hacker playing tricks on baby brother.


Now if it was Barney...well, that'd be pretty scary!

 

[hipmamajen]

Wow, that sure sounds like "Kill James." Weird!

 

[Blondieskatz]

Wow, that sure sounds like "Kill James." Weird!

Yea, it sure does! Boy, it's hard to imagine an Evil Elmo.

 

[deanws]

My granddaughter loves..just LOVES Elmo.

 

[XcomSquaddie]

I never did trust that ticklish little freak...

 

[White Rain]

I never did trust that ticklish little freak...

LMAO...Elmo with a "fetish...."
Who knew?

 

[englishleigh]

That is freaky, but I think someone programmed the doll to say that.

 

[White Rain]

That is freaky, but I think someone programmed the doll to say that.

Yeah, I think so too...the question is WHO??????

 

[Texana]

Either somone programmed the doll or Elmo is posessed by an evil spirit, the reincarnated/living spirit of a demonic killer...

Oh wait, that's Chuckie, isn't it?

I think we should avoid all dolls and toys that end in vowels. Chuck EEEE...ElmOOOOO....

Totally O/T, but I really liked the news anchorwoman's hair cut.

 

[englishleigh]

Yeah, I think so too...the question is WHO??????

You almost wonder if it was the parents....for the attention and possible $$$.

 

[MeoW333]

You almost wonder if it was the parents....for the attention and possible $$$.

You know i wondered the same thing, since it does have to be programmed.. it would probably pick up alot of $$ on Ebay after the publicity.

They should have bought a Furby instead haha :crazy:

 

[pedinurse]

if it were my toddler he wouldn't want another one like it near him, even if it didn't say it again - he'd remember and he is only 20 months old.