No, I'm not kidding:
Two popular children's items that can now get you arrested for trying to sell them: the Easy Bake Oven and Polly Pockets dolls.
Nanny loves you, you ungrateful bastards, and don't you forget it.
WASHINGTON — If you're planning a garage sale or organizing a church bazaar, you'd best beware: You could be breaking a new federal law. As part of a campaign called Resale Roundup, the federal government is cracking down on the secondhand sales of dangerous and defective products.
The initiative, which targets toys and other products for children, enforces a new provision that makes it a crime to resell anything that's been recalled by its manufacturer.
"Those who resell recalled children's products are not only breaking the law, they are putting children's lives at risk," said Inez Tenenbaum, the recently confirmed chairwoman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
The crackdown affects sellers ranging from major thrift-store operators such as Goodwill and the Salvation Army to everyday Americans cleaning out their attics for yard sales, church bazaars or — increasingly — digital hawking on eBay, Craigslist and other Web sites.
Secondhand sellers now must keep abreast of recalls for thousands of products, some of them stretching back more than a decade, to stay within the bounds of the law.
Two popular children's items that can now get you arrested for trying to sell them: the Easy Bake Oven and Polly Pockets dolls.
Nanny loves you, you ungrateful bastards, and don't you forget it.
Comments
Why don't you write a piece that allows people to sell plastic bags filled w/ broken glass for children and show some consistency? Because that's about what your position amounts to.
I can make the arguement that skate boards, baseball, sleds, and flying a kite are dangerous.
Delaware Watch would make them all illegal because he feels they are dangerous?
Were any of these ever designated as defective products? If there is a TYPE or BRAND of, say, sled that is dangerous and determined to be defective, then it should not be sold for use.
You Libertarians are rather caviler when it comes to the safety of children.
Polly pockets have frickin lead in them. They should be banned from any sale...keep those lead loaded chinese toys coming folks... a little lead will make your child smarter!
I know this is going to come as a shocker. I hope you're sitting down. Perhaps, just maybe, i mean... is there a slight possibility that the parent could make that judgement on their own?
I know... there's that nutjob libertarian talk again. Sorry.
The "it's for the children" argument is like a
Godwin. The first person that pulls out "WHY WON'T YOU THINK OF THE CHILDREN!??!?!" should always automatically lose any argument.