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Sure, it seemed like after the years of hard drinking, petty crime, and run-ins with the law, <a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/Elmo/">Elmo</a> had cleaned up his act -- but a shocking report out of Tampa Bay, Florida, says otherwise. A two-year-old's life has been turned upside down by vicious talk coming from his favorite toy, Elmo Knows Your Name. It seems that after a recent battery change, the PC-interfacing doll began spouting death threats of "kill James" at the toddler, with seemingly no explanation as to how the new phrase entered his vocabulary. The situation came to a head when the boy's mother heard her son repeating the twisted suggestion. Of course, what she didn't hear was Elmo's other threat: that he would "cut anyone who crossed [him] end-to-end with a Bowie knife," and, "dine on their internal organs." Fisher Price says it has a team of experts working on the case, and enough tranquilizer darts to put Elmo down, "For good."<br /><br /><a href="http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/feb/21/toddlers-elmo-doll-makes-death-threats/">Read</a> - Toddler's Elmo Doll Makes Death Threats, Family Says<br /><a href="http://www.tbo.com/video/xml/MGBBBA7WXCF.html">Read</a> - Video of Elmo making death threats<p style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"> </p><p><a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/22/when-good-toys-go-bad-x-elmo-makes-death-threats-to-toddler/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1122088/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a> | <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/22/when-good-toys-go-bad-x-elmo-makes-death-threats-to-toddler/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a></p><hr />
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