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Baby toy: ‘I hate you’
Family finds Christmas gift uttering ‘subliminal’ message

A Christmas toy intended to spread the peace and love of the holiday apparently spews hatred.

As first reported by The Columbian, a Vancouver, Wash., family discovered that the toy they unsuspectingly attached to their son’s crib utters the words “I hate you” amid the rhythmic ocean sounds designed to lull the baby asleep.

Blanche Skelton told WorldNetDaily she was giving her 6-month-old, Alex, his medicine the other night when she heard the soft voice of a woman or little kid repeating the nasty message over and over.

“The voice has a softness to it. It sounds hypnotizing. … I think it’s creepy,” Skelton said. “My husband thought I was crazy until he heard it.” Skelton’s in-laws and everyone who has visited the house since have heard it.

“How many kids are lying in their crib listening to that?” Skelton’s father-in-law, Gary Skelton, posed to The Columbian.

The complete story is here.

(This one comes via Boing Boing.)


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