Monday, 17 May 2010

One In A Million*

From here:

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) in cooperation with Family Dollar Stores Inc, of Charlotte NC, is announcing the voluntary recall of 1.8 million toy dart gun sets, due to an aspiration hazard. CPSC and Family Dollar have received reports of two asphyxiation deaths involving a 9-year-old boy in Chicago, Ill and a 10-year-old boy in Milwaukee, Wis.

If a child places the soft, pliable plastic toy dart in his/her mouth, the toy can be inhaled into the throat and prevent the child from breathing...

* Bonus points for the first person to point out that technically, this is one-in-nine-hundred-thousand, not one-in-a-million.

5 comments:

Duncan Stott said...

Were all 1.8 Million units sold?

Bill Quango MP said...

That's what I bought all the nephews for Christmas.
Great fun..if you haven't got one of these for the office then you really are missing out.

Banzaiii

J said...

2/1,800,000 = 1/900,000...?

Mark Wadsworth said...

EKTWP, congrats, after 29 hours, you get the bonus points.

J said...

I knew my astrophysics degree would come in useful one day!