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I think the term WTF! is entirely appropriate here:
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,10594424%5E401,00.html
Toys depict Sept 11 attack
From correspondents in Miami
August 28, 2004
SMALL toys showing a plane flying into the World Trade Centre were packed inside more than 14,000 bags of candy and sent to small groceries around the US before an urgent recall.
Error ... the products were urgently recalled / AP
Lisy Corp, the wholesaler that distributed the lollies, said today 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, said Luis Pedron, Lisy's national sales manager.
They included the toys depicting the September 11, 2001 attack on the twin towers, whistles and other small toys, The invoice said the 9/11 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 (12m) containers. But whoever made it knew exactly what they were making," Mr Pedron said.
Mr Pedron said Lisy did not notice the small plastic figurines until two people complained, but there was no mistaking what the toys represented - at the bottom of each was the product number 9011.
"When we found out what happened, we recalled them immediately," said Mr Pedron, who said the toys did not reflect the company's view. "I was offended by them."
The company's 100 distributors sent out the candy bags. Most were sold to small Hispanic and Mexican groceries, Mr Pedron said. He estimated about 90 per cent of the bags had 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."
Mr Pedron said he was saving the toys to return to the distributor.
A woman who answered the telephone at L&M refused to give her name and said she did not know anything about the toy.
The Associated Press
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http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,10594424%5E401,00.html
Toys depict Sept 11 attack
From correspondents in Miami
August 28, 2004
SMALL toys showing a plane flying into the World Trade Centre were packed inside more than 14,000 bags of candy and sent to small groceries around the US before an urgent recall.
Error ... the products were urgently recalled / AP
Lisy Corp, the wholesaler that distributed the lollies, said today 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, said Luis Pedron, Lisy's national sales manager.
They included the toys depicting the September 11, 2001 attack on the twin towers, whistles and other small toys, The invoice said the 9/11 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 (12m) containers. But whoever made it knew exactly what they were making," Mr Pedron said.
Mr Pedron said Lisy did not notice the small plastic figurines until two people complained, but there was no mistaking what the toys represented - at the bottom of each was the product number 9011.
"When we found out what happened, we recalled them immediately," said Mr Pedron, who said the toys did not reflect the company's view. "I was offended by them."
The company's 100 distributors sent out the candy bags. Most were sold to small Hispanic and Mexican groceries, Mr Pedron said. He estimated about 90 per cent of the bags had 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."
Mr Pedron said he was saving the toys to return to the distributor.
A woman who answered the telephone at L&M refused to give her name and said she did not know anything about the toy.
The Associated Press
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