Posted on 08/27/2004 1:18:45 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
ORLANDO, Fla. -- A bag of candy shocked a local grandmother and will most likely shock you. The toy inside looks like a plane flying right into the Twin Towers. Now, that toy is off some local store shelves because of our story.
It doesn't stop there, though. That grandmother was surprised, again, when she read the numbers imprinted on the toy.
Until Thursday afternoon, the little toys were on sale to kids around Central Florida -- two towers with a jetliner in between that appears to be crashing into one of the buildings. They come in packages along with candy.
We talked to a grandmother who couldn't believe what she'd inadvertently bought for her grandson.
"It makes me angry," Anna Rodriguez says. "I was offended because I couldn't believe that someone would give something like that to a kid."
When Rodriguez let her grandson pick out a bag of toys and candy, she never realized what was inside until her own son noticed the disturbing toy.
"[He said] look at the toy. I said, 'Let me see it,' and when I looked at it I was outraged. I was like, what? No way," Rodriguez says.
She purchased the toy at a local grocery store. We found more packages still hanging on the candy rack. The storeowners were appalled when they saw what a distributor for Lisy Corporation, based in Miami, brought to their store. The store pulled the bags from the shelf Thursday.
Rodriguez has pictures of the Twin Towers in her living room to remember the victims of 9/11. She says there is no mistake what the toy represents, especially when you look at the product number on every single toy: 9011.
"Everybody knows it's about the twin towers and it's nothing to be joking around about," says Rodriguez. She believes someone out there did it on purpose. "Whoever did this knew what they were doing, they definitely knew."
A company called Lisy Corporation distributes the candy bags. They said they are also offended by the toy and have pulled 17,000 of the toys.
Lisy says they bought the toys, sight unseen, from L and M Import/Export of Miami. We talked to L and M and they say they have no problem at all with the toy and don't consider it offensive at all.
We even pointed out to the import company that every single toy has a stock number on the front that reads "9011." L and M Imports didn't find it all coincidental and said it's just a toy. Asked if they'd talk on camera, they said there is nothing to talk about.
Fortunately, the product is being pulled from the shelves here in Florida.
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Do you think the toy's resemblance to the 9-11 terror attacks was intentional?
Yes
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Not sure
Here are links to previous threads.
AP: Miami company pulling candy bags with toy depicting 9-11 attackFox News: Company Pulling Candy Bags With 9/11 'Toy'[Plane flying into twin towers]
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Let's see what the whiny widows have to say about this ... my guess is that they wasted all their breath on the President's commercials.
Where was it produced?
Do you think classified documents falling into Sandy Berger's underwear was intentional? :)
I have a feeling that the manufacturer of the Bag-O-Glass toy, MainWay Industries, has something to do with this.
| Choice | Votes | Percentage of 3214 Votes |
| Yes | 2767 |  86% |
| No | 318 | 10% |
| Not sure | 129 | 4% |
How about some research into this L and M Import/Export of Miami.?
The toy that shows an airplane crashing into the World Trade Center has a part number of 9011. The company who thinks there is nothing to make of the toy is:
L M Import Export Inc Address: 4805 NW 165th St, Miami, FL 33014 Phone: (305) 622-7122
I think we should call this company and give them and earful.
ROFLMAO!!!!
This toy was designed for Palestinian children. It just happened to get sent to the wrong market by mistake.
The toys were made in Cuba
Boy o Boy! A google of Lisy turns up a mass of recalls and lawsuits!
This looks to me like a plot between Islamic Radicals in the toy industry and the Kerry Campaign with the intent to brainwash children into believing that the Republicans are responsible for 9011.
AP: Miami company pulling candy bags with toy depicting 9-11 attack
Just damn.
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L M Import Export Inc out of Miami appears to be a Chinese toy importer, see links in post 26 and 27:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1201127/posts?page=26#26
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schnitt pointed out that the base looks like a coffin.
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