Toy Parrot With Tourettes Swear At Child
A shop in Brighton, England has sold a toy parrot to a mother, which decided to shout swear words at her daughter when she pulled the toys cord.
Tina brought the parrot from a toy shop when her daughter was throwing a paddy and hoped that it would help keep her quite. But when she gave the toy over to her daughter and pulled the cord for her, the toy parrot’s first words were “Oi! What are you looking at a***hole.Tina was very much taken aback, but wondering if what happened had just been her imagination, she made the parrot speak again. The parrot made a small sound and then came out with “Sod off, sod off”. This caused a huge amount of embarrassment on Tina’s part as everyone in the area turned to see where the swearing was coming from. To save her self any more embarrassment she rushed off down the street and took shelter in another shop.
Later, out of ear shot from her 11-month old daughter, Tina decided to see what other expletives had been programmed into the toy.Among the most offensive, “I’m going to rip your head off and s**t down your neck.” and “Oi! B****r off.It is simple not acceptable for toys like this to be available for people to buy when all they are after is something innocent for their children says Tina. She also mentioned that she will be sticking to dolls house toys from now on.
Hussein Lalani, commercial director of 99p Stores has apologised and said that it should not have been on sale in the toy section of the shop. He has stated that such an incident will be examined well. Also looking into the story will be Brighton and Hove City Council’s trading standards. They have not given any further details about the incident but have suggested that selling such a toy is not something that should be slipping through the net and procedures should be put in place to stop similar incidents happening again.
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