[TWIAR] Mom says child’s toy had a mouth like a trucker

[Greg Williams]

Mom says child’s toy had a mouth like a trucker
Fisher-Price walkie-talkie picked up drivers’ strip club, drug
discussions

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26081076/

CHARLESTON, W.Va. - A West Virginia mother is seeking a recall of a
popular walkie-talkie after her 3-year-old’s toy apparently
intercepted a profanity-laced conversation between truckers about
drugs and strip clubs.

Deborah Pancaro, 34, said she contacted Fisher-Price after she heard
a conversation in which a man said “10-4” and other things that led
her to believe the device was relaying a CB radio conversation.

“They said we should go smoke some weed, and were talking about being
in a strip bar, some really explicit things,” Pancaro said Thursday.
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The walkie-talkie is sold exclusively at Wal-Mart and allows children
to role-play animal rescues like the Diego character does on the
cartoon series “Dora the Explorer” and “Go, Diego, Go!”

The walkie-talkie is supposed to have a range of about 20 feet, but
Pancaro said she heard one of the voices say he was driving on the
Pennsylvania Turnpike, about 275 miles north of Huntington.

Pancaro, who bought the toy on Aug. 2, said she sent a letter to
Fisher-Price, urging it to either fix the toy so it wouldn’t pick up
CB chatter or pull the product from the shelves.

Fisher-Price apologized for Pancaro’s “disappointing experience” and
has made two unsuccessful attempts to contact her since Wednesday,
spokeswoman Juliette Reashor said in an e-mail to The Associated
Press.

With a limited number of operating frequencies available for
radio-type walkie-talkies, she said they occasionally will pick up
transmissions from other products.

Though the product has not been recalled, Wal-Mart says on its Web
site that it is being discontinued. A spokeswoman for the company
based in Bentonville, Ark., said Thursday she would look into the
matter.

Pancaro said she planned to return Fisher-Price’s call later Thursday.

“It’s not about the money. I’d just hate for little kids to be
hearing things like that, and I thought maybe they didn’t know.”

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