Elmo doll says "Kill!"
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Melissa Bowman of Lithia, Florida claims that her two-year-old son James's Elmo Knows Your Name doll kept repeating the phrase "Kill James." The doll can be programmed with new names and certain phrases via PC. The toy's manufacturer, Fisher-Price, has offered to replace the doll and will check into the alleged malfunction. From TBO.com:
With a squeeze of its fuzzy belly, the Sesame Street character now says, in a sing-song voice, "Kill James." "It's not something that really you would think would ever come out of a toy," said Melissa Bowman, James' mother. "But once I heard, I was just kind of distraught."Link (via Fortean Times)
The Elmo Knows Your Name doll, which connects to a computer to learn certain phases and names, recently ran out of battery power, Bowman said.
About an hour after she put new ones in, "I noticed exactly what it was saying," Bowman said. "And my son was repeating exactly what it was saying."
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I really don't think that the toy manufacturers made an error with the elom doll. I think that's something that a parent of whomever coud've programmed the doll to say prehaps even TV. i think at recording time someone said KILL James and elmo just happened to pick up on that. Not saying that it happened purposely it could've been an honest mistake in the recording. For example, James could 've made a mess, not did what a parent asked, or something to that nature and whomever said i'm gonna Kill James. We all have said it before if we meant it or not. I think the toy just picked up on the end of theh phrase that it heard I mean it records whatever a person wants it ot say the person could've pressed the button and not realized it. Maybe it was on purpose and maybe not.
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