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- zKman, on 01/18/2008, -2/+72I thought it said shark
- johnabq, on 01/18/2008, -5/+74some poor worker had to make his own tool for cutting something at the factcory and it ended up in a package...they barely feed those workers so why is everyone so surprised that a homemade tool was used and then lost...this story is stupid...think about it for ten seconds and it seems obvious...
- scuba7183, on 01/18/2008, -7/+61i thought it said skank
- 10001110101, on 01/18/2008, -3/+41Or, it's a homemade box opener/cord cutter/assembly line tool that was accidentally set in the wrong place.
- weatherman5000, on 01/18/2008, -0/+37Maybe the father should have read closer. it clearly says Polly Pocket Knife.
- BEloftyIRONS, on 01/18/2008, -12/+47I guess they ran out of lead. It's like toy makers are trying to put dangerous stuff in kids toys. "Hey, do you have any dirty needles we can put in here? No? I guess we'll have settle for the shank."
- blindhammer, on 01/18/2008, -2/+29What's the problem? Playgrounds are rough these days. You should see what happens on the swings.
- rnawky, on 01/18/2008, -1/+27http://digg.com/odd_stuff/Girl_Finds_Mystery_Knife ...
- sdubois92, on 01/18/2008, -2/+27Technically speaking, it is a shiv. Shank is a verb. ie., to shank.
- inactive, on 01/18/2008, -0/+25Heh...that reminds me of something that happened to me when I was a kid. I used to build models a lot. For precision gluing I'd use syringes. One day I got home and the pastor from our church was waiting for me. A friend had seen my syringes sitting in a plastic cup in my closet and arranged an intervention. I'm like, "I'm not a slammer, I'm a nerd! Wanna see my battle-damaged Millennium Falcon?"
- Brad324, on 01/18/2008, -2/+26"yay, my completely innocent polly pocket has arrived as a gift from my neice, for me to play with whilst in jail! Please officer, hand me said doll!"
- Cymrubeats, on 01/18/2008, -0/+22Having worked on a few production lines before, you always get this sort of ***** (razors with tape on then, craft knives etc taped when broken)...they're for cutting open boxes, pallet wrap etc, crap like that. If you're on a nightshift or what have you, there's no storeperson there to sort you out with a new one, assuming you want to wait about, losing a wage (if you're on piece work) to get a new one.
- IShouldBeWorkin, on 01/18/2008, -2/+21What has Digg become when you actually have to swear that any youtube link is not Rick Roll?
Answer: this kind of place http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYu68SHWh64 - dafragsta, on 01/18/2008, -2/+18I recommend to Digg for inclusion in the bury option. Old ***** News
- inactive, on 01/18/2008, -2/+16This story is from a few weeks ago...
- captnkurt, on 01/18/2008, -2/+13I thought it said funax, but then I turned off the ROT13 converter.
- santiago1, on 01/18/2008, -0/+9 Heh, Dugg for making the Fat Tony voice in my head! :-)
- Fullvinyl, on 01/18/2008, -1/+9Polly Pocket's more happenin' than we all think.
- Urusai, on 01/18/2008, -0/+7Kids these days, shooting up glue. When I was a kid, we had to huff it from a paper bag.
- dianebl, on 01/18/2008, -0/+7You realize the consumerist article just linked to a CNN news video? Or did you even look?
- zmjone2992, on 01/18/2008, -1/+8months
- Namco, on 01/18/2008, -0/+7Wow, you have a thick Scottish accent even when you type. :D... anyway I agree completely. Common sense explains this, if you have some however, which most digg users don't.... except us or course.
- rowlodge, on 01/18/2008, -0/+6oh, there's my shank.
- Astrofabrical, on 01/18/2008, -0/+6Does anyone besides me think that the parents may have done it just to get some news attention?
- AriaStar, on 01/18/2008, -0/+6Thanks for saving me the time of finding the old one that front-paged. Damned dupe submitters.
- BalsamLane, on 01/18/2008, -1/+7http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPHtKarae2Q
(Not RR, I promise.) - mogebier, on 01/18/2008, -4/+9Geez. He can't even take the GUM OUT OF HIS FREAKING MOUTH for the interview.
Redneck. - Azimuth1, on 01/18/2008, -1/+6Holy *****. My childhood just flashed before my eyes.
- ordig, on 01/18/2008, -2/+7I'm guessing some Chinese factory kid hid it in there so he could shank his boss.
- Tophillious, on 01/18/2008, -0/+5You know, you just insulted about 2/3 of people who go to school.
- tformed, on 01/18/2008, -2/+6I read "Shark Found Inside Mattel Polly Pocket Toy"
- sloppjyoe890, on 01/18/2008, -0/+4Nobody bothered to look at what kind of polly pocket it was. It was a special prison edition where polly gets her cornbread back.
- combatchuck, on 01/18/2008, -0/+4I can guarantee, with 100% certainty, that the "shank" is a factory worker's self-made trimming tool. Having worked in a plastic factory, I used to make things like that all the time. You use them for trimming flash off the edge of a molded part. They should be talking to the manufacturer about this, not treating the Walmart people like *****.
- lisaawesome, on 01/18/2008, -0/+4Man I never got anything that cool with my Polly Pockets.
- Jason4000, on 01/18/2008, -1/+5Homemade shanks are a normal part of the shipping departments cause most bosses skimp on buying exacto knives and other tools cause they just disappear fast. These guys make these things to open boxes and sometime they are left on the edge of the counter where oops, something happens. Only people who class above shipping can't understand and overblow these situations. Common man. what is the first thing a girl does when she finds one of these in a box. She goes to her mom and says "What's this?". This is about as bad as having a knife in the kitchen drawer. Mom is making a scene again.
- Kronos6948, on 01/18/2008, -0/+4It's called an "Accessory". Polly's gotten tough over the past few years.
- Shambla, on 01/18/2008, -3/+7Speaking of Polly Pocket....
Remember Mighty Max? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mighty_Max_%28toyline ... - Shakermaker, on 01/18/2008, -1/+5yeah, I found a finger in my Wendy's chili too! Maybe I should sue....
- zeitgueist, on 01/18/2008, -9/+13Not sure why you're being dugg down, half the stories on the consumerist turn out to be outright lies or incredibly biased when you actually read them.
- knobtwiddler, on 01/18/2008, -0/+4i love how there is no mention of the fact that this was probably manufactured in a chinese prison.
go back to sleep america... just keep taking your pills and spending that money - BalsamLane, on 01/18/2008, -1/+5Brilliant!
- AgentEntropy, on 01/18/2008, -0/+3Actually this is just the girls version of Johnny Switchblade: Adventure Punk. Now that was a fun toy. You squeeze it and two switchblades come out of its hands. Are you sure this is made by Mattel and not Mainway Toys? Like the Bag-o-Glass. That was a great toy idea. I mean kids like playing with pieces of glass they find on the street anyway, so might as well make it easy for them, right?
- inactive, on 01/18/2008, -0/+3Its just a tool used by the children who work in the factory which may have accidentally been dropped there by a worker. Your hands get a little tired after 14 hours of tedious assembly work.
http://www.mediamouse.org/corporate/christmas_toys ...
http://library.thinkquest.org/03oct/01908/800/chin ...
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/low ... - wellyuk, on 01/18/2008, -0/+3You were a kid? The pastor from your church was waiting for you at home? For what, I wonder...
- monkeyrun, on 01/18/2008, -0/+3They could sell it on ebay for 2.99 :P
- bjs3171, on 01/18/2008, -0/+3gee. i wonder where it was made.
- mogebier, on 01/18/2008, -0/+2Nah, they look like a redneck family.
- duffblue, on 01/18/2008, -0/+2I did too.
"What the hell? How small was this shark?!" - roflcopterdown, on 01/18/2008, -0/+2It's not a shank, it's a shiv. Shiv is a noun, shank is a verb.
- judicar, on 01/18/2008, -0/+2Welcome to last month's news. It wasn't a shank it was just a tool someone on the production line dropped.
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