Elmo continues his preoccupation with killing.
It sounds like something the talking doll Chucky from the movies might say: “Kill James!” Instead, a Florida family says the threat to their toddler is coming from a talking Elmo doll.
The Bowman family, of Lithia, Fla., said an Elmo doll belonging to their 2-year-old son, James, began to spout death threats towards him after they changed its batteries, TBO.com reports.
The Elmo Knows Your Name Doll started saying “Kill James!” in a sing-song voice, the site reports.
“It’s not something that really you would think would ever come out of a toy,” James’ mother, Melissa, told the site. “But once I heard, I was just kind of distraught.”
Kind of distraught?
I wonder if they’ll charge Elmo with battery.
Update: In other puppet news:
A puppet will represent Ireland in this year’s Eurovision song contest, it was decided tonight.
Children’s favourite Dustin The Turkey was plucked out as the best of six finalists by Irish voters.
Heck, why not? It certainly won’t give Eurovision less credibility than it currently has.
