Just when I think that I have seen it all...
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>Chair electrifies US toy market
>The Times of London
>September 1 2000
>BY JAMES BONE
>BLOODTHIRSTY American children have graduated from toy guns to a more
>horrifying plaything: a miniature electric chair.
>Death Row Marv allows children to electrocute a plastic doll based on a
>comic book character ostensibly convicted of murdering the man who killed
>his girlfriend.
>Strapped into the chair, the 6in figure can move his neck, shoulders, waist
>and wrists. As the current is applied, his eyes glow red and his body
>convulses. In his death throes he taunts his executioners through clenched
>teeth: "That the best you can do, you pansies?"
>Aimed at children "13 and up", the toy is electrifying the teenage market,
>with about 65,000 sold at $23.95 each and there are waiting lists across
>the country. The toy, which is now on sale in Britain at �19:95, has been
>criticised by Amnesty International.
>The National Organisation of Parents of Murdered Children issued an alert.
>"Is this the type of toy we want our children playing with?" the group
>asked. "What will they come up with next - a rape doll, with bottles of
>'blood'?"
>
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