Today In The USA

If they are $2 packages of “Ugly Teeth”.

Wanna guess from where they came?

Surprise – surprise, they came from China.

And they contain too much what?

Ah. You guessed it – too much lead.

And they are the subject of yet another warning from the Consumer Product Safety Commission which at this late hour on Halloween has issued a recall of the novelty item imported by Amscan Inc., of Elmsford, N.Y.

Read it at Fake Halloween teeth recalled for lead and always remember to watch out for cheap shit from China…

10/04/07 Edition:

Several more U.S. companies bent over and took it in the backside today, once again courtesy of the Chinese lead paint industry which apparently contaminates pretty much everything produced in China.

Today’s recalls include:

Key chains words like “truth” or “believe” engraved on them, Winnie the Pooh bookmarks and Baby Einstein Discover and Play Color Blocks, journals, bookmarks and bracelets made by Antioch Publishing, Pirates of the Caribbean Medallion Squeeze Lights imported by Energizer Holdings’ Eveready Battery Co. and plastic Frankenstein tumblers sold by Dollar General, children’s room decorating sets made by CKI Toys and wooden alphabet and math block wagons sold by KB Toys Inc.

Wonder when U.S. companies are going to realize that it really is not cheaper and certainly not smarter buying and reselling cheap shit from China?

Anyhow, you can read the latest horror stories at More than 500,000 Toys Recalled for High Lead Levels

The folks at RC2 Corporation need to pull their heads out of their asses long enough to realize that “Cheap shit from China” costs them more, a lot more, in the long run.

RC2 Corporation took a double-dicking from the Chinese junk merchants when the makers of the Thomas & Friends Wooden Railway toys had to issue a second recall owing to lead paint problems.

Turns out that RC2 Corp tried to make amends for having to recall a bunch of the smiley-faced trains earlier this summer by sending customers who turned in recalled toys “bonus gifts” in an ill-fated attempt to maintain customer loyalty.

Turns out that now the hapless company is having to recall some of the “bonus gifts” owing to, yep, you guessed it, lead paint problems.

Evidently the folks at RC2 Corporation have never heard that old saying that goes something like, “Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me“…

Read it at Toy Recall on Top of Toy Recall and watch out for that cheap shit from China. It can get expensive, real expensive, sometimes…