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Posted on 08/27/2004 11:53:01 AM PDT by Stultis
MIAMI - Small toys showing an airplane flying into the World Trade Center were packed inside more than 14,000 bags of candy and sent to small groceries around the country before being recalled.
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Lisy Corp., the wholesaler that distributed the candy, said Friday that the toys were purchased in bulk from a Miami-based import company.
The toys came in an assortment purchased sight unseen from L&M Import in Miami and included the toys depicting the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the twin towers, whistles and other small toys, said Luis Pedron, Lisy's national sales manager. The invoice said the toy was a plastic swing set.
"I hate to blame the importer. He probably did not know what he was getting. He brings them in 40-foot containers. But whoever made it knew exactly what they were making," Pedron said.
Pedron said Lisy did not notice the small plastic figurines until two people complained, but there is no mistaking what the toys represent: At the bottom of each is the product number 9011.
"When we found out what happened, we recalled them immediately," said Pedron, who said the toys do not reflect the company's view. "I was offended by them."
The company's 100 distributors sent out the candy bags. Most are sold to small Hispanic and Mexican groceries, Pedron said. He estimated about 90 percent of the bags have been collected.
Anna Rodriguez, who bought a bag of the candy for her grandson, said she was stunned when she saw the toy.
"It makes me angry," she told television station WFTV. "I was offended because I couldn't believe that someone would give something like that to a kid."
Pedron said he is saving the toys to return to the distributor.
A woman who answered the telephone at L&M and refused to give her name said Friday she did not know anything about the toy.
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The Palestinians and Arab Muslims do it all the time...but the Leftists insist we're supposed to "respect" their "cultural differences"...
Does anyone else, besides me, think the toys were made in China?
This is unbelievable -- anybody profiteering off of death like that (whoever supplied the toys from overseas, I mean). Seriously though -- watch how you express your outrage though because this thread may show up on DU in respect to the President's tv commercials. We can't let them try to hunt with that dog again.
Maybe they should fix it by writing; "Islam, the religion of peace" on the bottom. Oh but that`s right, if you did that they`d kill you.
Cuba, Mexico, Brazil and Venezuela are good options. Note that they were to be sent to Hispanic markets. MEMO TO CLUELESS GEORGE: MEXICO IS AN ENEMY STATE. REPEAT: MEXICO IS AN ENEMY STATE. A lot of MexicANS may be happy to just go someplace they can find work, but you are allowing our invasion by a hostile enemy.
Hillarious
One of John Kerry's advisors, after being fired for suggesting the spastic presidential nominee throw out the first pitch at a Redsox game has decided to enter the world of toymaking.
I just saw this. unbelievable. who would make such a thing?
The 911 WTC event is NOT a joke!
How dare they make a mockery of it via a toy!
Will beheading dolls of slain Americans be next? Paul Johnson? Daniel Pearl? Nick Berg to name a few?
Maybe we should accidentally drop a MOAB on the factory that built these sick Toys. Whoever could manufature something like this, is obviously not in their right minds and It would not suprise me if they were somehow connected to the terrorists.
"When we found out what happened, we recalled them immediately," said Padron, who said the offensive toys made in China do not reflect his company's view.
It's hard to imagine what they were thinking. That nobody would notice, or that we would cheer?
Ping to #12.
In my line of work, I can't afford to be wrong...
>>the offensive toys made in China <<
Yeah, but we also know who the intended market was.
America's worst enemies:
1. Al Qaeda
2. North Korea
3. Syria
4. Iran
5. China
6. Mexico
7. France
ping
Does anyone else, besides me, think the toys were made in China?
...my first thought.
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