The Consumer Product Safety Commission has issued its first stop-sale order in 11 years, saying the magnetic toys called Buckyballs "pose a substantial risk of injury to the public".
Since 2009, CPSC staff has learned of more than two dozen ingestion incidents, with at least one dozen involving Buckyballs. Surgery was required in many of incidents. The Commission staff alleges in its complaint that it has concluded that despite the attempts to warn purchasers, warnings and education are ineffective and cannot prevent injuries and incidents with these rare earth magnets.
Here we go again. A government agency is banning a perfectly good product because some parents are too fucking stupid to realize that giving a child a bunch of tiny magnetic balls is not a good idea. Perhaps there should be a law preventing stupid people from procreating.
