Florida Woman Says Garfield Toy Is Obscene

wftv ^ | UPDATED: 12:04 pm EDT July 23, 2004

[dennisw]

Florida Woman Says Garfield Toy Is Obscene

MIAMI -- A South Florida woman says a toy included in Wendy's kids' meals is obscene.

When Tiffany Glad took her three-and-a-half year old niece to Wendy's, the little girl was fascinated with the wind-up toy that told the story of the new Garfield movie.

But Glad says the next day, the cute toy turned crude. It seems one scene shows Garfield pointing upward and Glad says it looks like Garfield is sticking up his middle finger.

"My niece came to me and said Garfield was being bad and I asked her to explain to me. And she's articulate, she knows what's she's talking about, and she showed me the picture and I looked at it and I was outraged," says Glad.

Things got worse when Glad's niece began imitating the picture.

   

"Now she's going around showing everybody how Garfield's bad. And basically we have a 3-year-old running around giving the middle finger. He has five fingers, it's as clear as day what he's doing," Glad says.

The wrapper to the toy also has the same picture of Garfield pointing to a cloud, asking kids to fill in the bubble with an idea.

Wendy's has received several similar complaints from around the country, but they say it's a scene from the movie and they have no plans right now to remove the toy from the kids' meals. </>

[dennisw]

Garfield the cat giving a 3 year old the finger? What's this world coming too!!

[Wolfie]

Such is the plight of 4-fingered cartoon characters.

[Servant of the 9]

Garfield the cat giving a 3 year old the finger? What's this world coming too!!

Having read Garfield for years, I think that is just what a real Garfield would do.

So9

[highnoon]

This story reminds me of a tagline I saw on this site some time ago: "It's too bad that stupidity isn't painful."

I was managing a restaurant about 15 years ago, and we allowed a clown to come in from time to time and make balloon animals for the children. One woman with a large group of kids had an absolute fit about a balloon 'sword' that the clown made for one of the kids. She insisted that it was a 'c*ck and balls' and that we should fire the clown.

Unbelievable!

[two23]

"Having read Garfield for years, I think that is just what a real Garfield would do."

And remember the feature length animation of John, Garfield and Odies trip to Hawaii??

[Shryke]

Ah! A somewhat worthy silly thread to begin my probably-short-lived new ping list!

BEEBER to the SAF list!

SAF is the Smart A$$ed Freeper list, dedicated to levity. Please email me to be on or off.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Was this found in Sandy Berger's pants?

[11th Earl of Mar]

[najida]

OK, so,
Erm,
What do you expect from a smarta$$ cat?

[Eagle of Liberty]

And how does a 3-year old know that sticking up the middle finger is bad anyway, Tiffany? Children that young usually learn by copying behavior done at home.

[spunkets]

"Glad says it looks like..."

Looks like? What is he really doing?

"I was outraged," says Glad"

The cat's pointing at you. He thinks you're dumb.

[spunkets]

"Children that young usually learn by copying behavior done at home."

In this case the kid's probably picked it up from all those folks she's seen in public greeting autie Tiff.

[martin_fierro]

Inclusion on this august list is easily my grandest accomplishment today this week. <|:)~

Pinging other potential SAFs.

[subterfuge]

Why is there always a connection between FL and weird stuff that goes on?

EVery guy on a crime spree either came from Florida or is reportedly headed to Florida, or used to live in Florida.

[TheBigB]

Hee hee! I know a couple other mucho-cool gals who should be here...

[Eagle of Liberty]

Ha! Funny!

[beaversmom]

Just heard on the radio news that some dog bone company had bones in the shape of mailmen. Mailmen complained and the company stopped the campaign.

[Bella_Bru]

Over HERE too.

[mikrofon]

I sense a potentially litiginous 'faux paw' on the part of Wendy's...