When good toys go bad III: toy police belt drops the F-bomb

We have a certainly level of patience with run-of-the-mill toys that call you demeaning names and have speech impediments, but when an actual police toy, of all things, begins dropping the F-bomb at the press of a button, that's pushing it. Apparently using sound clips ripped directly from the unrated edition of Cops, Tek Nek's police belt -- which comes fully equipped with a speaker-loaded nightstick -- vocalizes certain words and phrases that stereotypically come out of a (filtered) cop's mouth. Of course, when contacting the manufacture, it insists that the word being pronounced is "stop," but according to Michelle Luciano, the vocabulary coming out of her son's new toy isn't so harmless. Interestingly, only "four customers" out of the 30,000 that purchased this gizmo have complained, leading Tek Nek to believe the mishap should be blamed on a malfunctioning speaker rather than ill intentions, but nevertheless, the company has vowed to replace the family's belt and restore order in the world by producing versions that lack the potentially misunderstood verb.

[Via Fark]

[GJP303 @ Jan 4th 2007 7:15PM]

If its only 4 ppl with the problem, I bet that they have hearing problems from blasting that iPod. Just a possibility.

[David @ Jan 4th 2007 8:14PM]

I need a filter for your rss feed that keeps everything with toy and pottymouth out.

[Jeff @ Jan 4th 2007 8:17PM]

Listen to the audio sample - it so clearly says "stop" that you'd have to be almost demented to think it says a curse word. I mean seriously, you'd have to be the kind of person that blurts out curse words yourself without realizing it, then gets offended when you hear the letters that make up those same curse words rearranged and used in other words. You'd have to be seriously obsessed with curse words and hearing them everywhere.

[alex @ Jan 4th 2007 8:50PM]

Some day, toy manufacturers are going to realise that investing in higher quality speakers would save them a lot of hassle :)

My personal favourite is the "who wants to die" elmo?

[mastershake916 @ Jan 4th 2007 8:59PM]

WTF?
These stories suck, unless it's an actual curse owrd and I can hear it in the audio it's worthless.

[GreeneBastard @ Jan 4th 2007 9:04PM]

Yep, I listened to the audio, if you mistake that for anything other than "stop",,, then you are a "DUMBASS"! The company should sue the parents for being stupid, and then have them shot, then sue them again, then borrow Saddam's gallows, and kill em again. Oh yeah, and castrate the kid, no need to allow this stupidity to spread. Come on! I mean even if it did curse, put it in a box, and give it to the kid when he turns 18, he'll either be the coolest kid at school, or put it on EBay and get filthy freeeeeeeekin rich off it!!!!!

Of course that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.......

GB

[xVariable @ Jan 4th 2007 9:10PM]

"Who wants to die"? OMFG that's the funniest thing I've heard all week. :D

[Victor Cornelius @ Jan 4th 2007 10:33PM]

that is the stupidest fucking thing i've ever seen in my entire fucking life

i hate people

[Joshua @ Jan 4th 2007 11:35PM]

So wheres the uncensored audio so we can hear for ourselves?

[mike @ Jan 4th 2007 11:52PM]

http://www.nbc5.com/download/2007/0102/10654833.mp3

[Toby Piller @ Jan 5th 2007 2:13AM]

me from Europe, me does not understand Canadian ;-)
Nah, I just wanna know, as a non-native, what f-bomb means and how can you ever mistake that for "STOP".

[Kim Laughton @ Jan 5th 2007 6:14AM]

"A suburban couple who thought they had found the perfect Christmas gift for their little boy said the toy was not as perfect as it seemed."

OH NOS!

[xVariable @ Jan 5th 2007 6:40AM]

Toby Piller: I sincerely hope you're joking but, if not, let me take this opportunity to make an example of you:

A perfunctory Google search would have found the answer to your question:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F_Bomb - "Fuck" is among the strongest, most controversial expletives in the modern English language and probably the most well-known vulgarism in the world.

[xVariable @ Jan 5th 2007 6:45AM]

Wait, wait, let me save you the effort:

"Durrr, uh... what is... "pur...funk...toree"?"

[John B @ Jan 5th 2007 11:07AM]

What the...? The audio is clear as a bell!

"Stop! I don't want to have to use my night stick!"

Un-f**king-believable.

[gorkon @ Jan 5th 2007 12:10PM]

Take back to Walmart and exchange....wash and repeat.....

This looks like some of that Walmart Kid Connection crap.

[wtf @ Jan 5th 2007 3:43PM]

Again, this is the internet, a medium used by adults. Children use it with parents permission. You can go ahead and type the word out, it's OK. No need to dumb it down.

[thief @ Jan 5th 2007 10:15PM]

@#2: given your name I find your comment hilarious.

[mcubed45 @ Jan 10th 2007 1:20AM]

umm i don't get it. what word do they think it's saying?