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Buckyball magnets have been taken off the shelves by the feds
When Buckyball magnet toys first showed up a few years ago, they were the coolest science toy around. Little spherical rare earth magnets are just too much fun to arrange and fuck around with, but they’re also an extreme hazard to small children. As in, not just a swallowing hazard, but a “magnets painfully clamp your intestines together in a way that could be fatal without surgery” sort of way.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has just banned the sale of Buckyballs, those magic magnets that can be shaped any which way, because the balls are a serious health hazard for children. It’s the first stop-sale order by the CPSC in 11 years.
Retailers like Amazon, Urban Outfitters and Brookstone have already agreed to stop selling Buckyballs (and similar products) and the CSPC has ordered distributor Maxfield and Oberton Holdings of New York to halt sales and issue refunds for the rare earth magnets. The CSPC said that Buckyballs are a “substantial product hazard” and are concerned by the injuries it causes to kids who swallow them:
“Notwithstanding the labeling, warnings and efforts taken by (Maxfield and Oberton), ingestion incidents continued to rise because warnings are ineffective”
When swallowed, the CSPC says that Buckyballs have the potential to pinch and trap intestines and require surgery to remove.
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posted 25 July, 2012
by cranberryzero
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whoa… that sucks
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Next up on “where the fuck were the parents/guardians/caretakers and what were they thinking oh right they weren’t” and...
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Apparently some kids were using them to mimic lip and tongue piercings and if the two magnets join up in your intestines...
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Seriously, WTF PEOPLE???
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That’s kind of bullshit… I mean, if you let your kid eat...sciency things… Yeah, it can...
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FYI FELLOW PARENTS HOLY FUCK BALLS
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