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The poison is banned for use in the US, but it--sm

Posted By: nn on 2007-03-23
In Reply to: Okay...so the poison is not even made in the US? - TGIF

is also used as some form of treatment for cancer. They are still saying the wheat gluten may have been sprayed with this poison prior to being shipped to the US. jeez! I am sooo mad! (pet lover).


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We just use those D-con(?) rat poison - sm
those black trays with the green poison pellets. Lucky for us the rat went who knows where to die but it did not stink up the house. Though something did die right under our living room a few months ago and the smell came up through the electrical outlet in the floor (have 2 there), just covered it up though with the phone book with couch over it and the smell went away in a week or so. Neither one of us would crawl under the house to remove the remains (not a lot of room in our crawl space 12-24 inches). But I would go the poison route and just hope it goes outside to die.
Okay...so the poison is not even made in the US?
Some kind of terrorism? What? How the....What the...
Pick your poison

I figure you can do one of two things:


First, buy the Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus books and learn how to talk like a man.  You know - short, sweet and to the point or maybe just a couple of grunts.  No blow-by-blow descriptions.  None of that emotional/feelings garbage.  Don't use him as a sounding board for ideas - ask his opinion only if you want him to fix the problem.  All that [insert your expletive here] stuff.


Second, and the one I would prefer, is to go out and buy a T-shirt that says *If I'm Talking You Should Be Taking Notes*.  Actually, I'd get several in various colors, one for every day of the week. 


And I wonder why I'm not married! (she grins)


Aqua Dots toys contain poison - a warning.

Millions of toys recalled; contain 'date rape' drug


Two U.S. children went into comas after swallowing Chinese-made Aqua Dots found to contain a chemical that converts into 'date rape' drug when ingested.






WASHINGTON (AP) -- Millions of Chinese-made toys have been pulled from shelves in North America and Australia after scientists found they contain a chemical that converts into a powerful date rape drug when ingested. Two children in the United States and three in Australia were hospitalized after swallowing the beads.


With only seven weeks until Christmas, the recall is yet another blow to the toy industry - already bruised by a slew of recalls this past summer.



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In the United States, the toy goes by the name Aqua Dots, a highly popular holiday toy distributed by Toronto-based Spin Master Toys. They are called Bindeez in Australia, where they were named toy of the year at an industry function earlier this year.


It could not immediately be learned whether Aqua Dots beads are made in the same factories as the Bindeez product. Both are sold by Australia-based Moose Enterprises.


The toy beads are sold in general merchandise stores and over the Internet for use in arts and crafts projects. They can be arranged into designs and fused together when sprayed with water.


Scientists say a chemical coating on the beads, when ingested, metabolizes into the so-called date rape drug gamma hydroxy butyrate. When eaten, the compound - made from common and easily available ingredients - can induce unconsciousness, seizures, drowsiness, coma and death.


Naren Gunja from Australia's Poisons Information Center said the drug's effect on children was "quite serious ... and potentially life-threatening."


The recall was announced by the Consumer Product Safety Commission on Wednesday several hours after published reports about the recall in Australia.



The two U.S. children who swallowed Aqua Dot beads went into nonresponsive comas, commission spokesman Scott Wolfson said Wednesday afternoon.


In Australia, the toys were ordered off store shelves on Tuesday when officials learned that a 2-year-old boy and a 10-year-old girl were hospitalized after swallowing the beads. A 19-month-old toddler also was being treated.


The news jolted the toy industry because Aqua Dots has been one of the few bright stars of the toy selling season, which, along with overall retailing, has gotten off to a sluggish start. The item, which had been heavily advertised, had appeared on many toy experts' list of must-have holiday toys, and toy sellers are now in the midst of canceling advertising and scrambling to figure out how to replace it.


Chris Byrne, a New York-based toy consultant, noted that the incidents could have been isolated, and Spin Master may be erring on the side of caution.


"This is something that they could not have foreseen. This is an extremely hot toy. ... It's a little scary," Byrne said.


In a statement, Toys "R" Us Inc., said that it issued on Tuesday a "stop sale" on the entire Spin Master Aqua Dots product line in its North American stores and on its Web site after it learned of the news. "We understand that Spin Master and U.S. regulatory authorities are investigating this product and we have asked Spin Master to fully explain what it believes happened," said the toy seller in a statement.


Meanwhile, a separate recall was announced for 405,000 children's products made in China, most of them toy cars, because of dangerous levels of lead.


The recall includes about 380,000 Pull-Back Action Toy Cars imported by Dollar General Merchandising Inc. of Goodlettsville, Tenn., and 7,500 Dragster and Funny Car toys imported by International Sourcing Ltd. of Springfield, Mo.


Four of the recalled products were imported by Schylling Associates Inc. of Rowley, Mass., including the items Duck Family Collectable Wind-Up Toy, Dizzy Ducks Music Box, "Robot 2000" collectable tin robot and Winnie-the-Pooh Spinning Top. The company recalled another 66,000 spinning tops Aug. 22.


Representatives from Schylling Associates Inc. were not immediately available for comment.


Wednesday's recalls include about 7,200 "Big Red" Wagons imported by Northern Tool & Equipment Co. of Burnsville, Minn. Totaling about 405,700, the recalled children's products all had excessive levels of lead in their surface paint.


Although no illnesses connected to the toy car recall have been reported, lead is toxic if ingested by young children. Children's products found to have more than 0.06 percent lead accessible to users are subject to a recall. Top



Banned
Oh, that is too funny!

I was not allowed to watch SNL, and I was also banned from watching MTV.

Where this becomes totally outrageous and quite embarassing: I was not allowed to watch shows where most of the characters were black!
I have banned my mom from seeing my kids

Your situation is similar to mine, but my mom has gone a little further.  I have 4 children, 2 from my first marriage and 2 from my second.  My second husband has been with my older two children since they were 4 and 5 and we have been married for 11 years (so obviously he is not going anywhere).  I found out about a year ago that she had been talking to my oldest two kids for years about how horrible she thought my husband treated my older kids and how he doesn't love them as much as he loves his "own" children.  We had been having problems with my 16 year old daughter at the time and everything can now stem back to much of this.  We couldn't understand why the older two were so disrespectful of my husband after everything that he does for them.  But they were being fed information behind our backs.  Everything from he is cheating on your mom, he is abusing your mom, he is a scumbag, etc. 


My mother also believes in "the other side" which is fine with me, but don't rub it in our face.  We don't shove our religion down her throat, so a little respect here.  She would frequently talk to my youngest two, who are only 7 and 8, about traveling out of body, talking to spirits, and how they were reincarnated. 


This was on top of stuff like after being told not to take the kids bike riding down a road that is 55 mph (no sidewalks) with no helmets on and she did it, not just once, but 3 times.  Then when I caught her lying about it, she paid off my daughter by taking her shoe shopping!  No wonder my kid is messed up.


She was told over a year ago to knock it off or supervised visits only (she was told once previously as well).  She didn't take me seriously, so last May, after being told that I didn't "worship" her enough for mother's day and how I didn't deserve to be a mother, I cut all ties. 


It has been the hardest thing that I have had to do, but to save my marrige, my sanity and my kids, I did what I had to do.  We live in a small town as well and of course mouths are wagging.  The schools are under strict order to not let her in to see them as well and know the situation.  My stepfather is dumbfounded and doesn't understand how I could do something like this.  But he is only hearing her side of things.  I told him to get her into counseling and that would be the ONLY way I would even think of mending this, but it has yet to be done.


You have to do what is right for your family and if this creates this much uproar in your family, then only you can decide how much you can take.


In case I get banned, or not, that's for the moderator
to decide, I know it was you, 'daisy', because you announced it in your upper post.
LOL, the chicken dance? That was banned from my wedding.
No way, no how. Nor the *hokey pokey* or *hands up*. LOL! I opted for *electric slide*, *shout*, *let's twist again*, *we are family*, *celebration*, *gloria*, *i will survive*, *shake your booty*, *YMCA*, *play that funky music*. We had such a blast!
When I was a teen & my sister was 10, my parents banned
We got around that one pretty easily. At 10:00 or so, we'd each yawn, say goodnight, and go to bed. Our parents usually followed not long after. At 11:30 I'd get up, wake up my sister, and we'd sneak back out to the living room to watch it with the sound way down. My parent's bedroom was back at the other end of the house, so they couldn't hear it or see the light from the TV. We never got caught, either! Hehe
Guess what my mother banned me from watching?
The Englebert Humperdink Show. ROFL. So you know I'm really old. I can't imagine what was offensive about the show. Maybe Englebert was just too sexy for my mom.
I banned any gift giving between adults
when my husband and I got married. I will get my SIL and BIL something, but only because they have 6 small children and they always NEED something. Otherwise, Christmas is for the kids, period, plain and simple. Since I made that rule (when we had 6 small ones ourselves) his sisters refuse to come for Christmas dinner which I think is silly, but whatever. Christmas should not be all about gift giving anyway.