Odd News

Perhaps not what you were expecting under the title of news, but with this part of the blog i’m going to take the opportunity to bring you the strangest news i can find from around the globe. Using the internet alone i’m going to source the most ludicrous tales of who-knows-what to make you squint at your screen and drop your jaw in disbelief as you can’t help but think aloud “………what?”.

The best one i found today was an American story about an apparently evil Elmo doll! The boy (who had a seemingly very large collection of Sesame Street toys for such a small boy!) had worn down the batteries of his doll which had been programmed to say the boy’s name and so his mother replaced the batteries. So far so normal. It wasn’t until the boy started repeating the doll that his mother was aware of the problem. The doll had started chanting “Kill James” (the boy’s name) whenever he was affectionately squeezed! Given his mother’s concern over her childs “death threats”, toy company Fisher-Price have agreed to issue the family with a replacement doll.

I don’t know about you but a talking doll is scary enough to me, let alone one which issues death threats to children!