Cheeky battery-operated toys called Choke-a-Chicken and Choke-a-Duck are being whipped off the shelves of South African toy stores following strong objections by the national SPCA.
The toys consist of cartoon-like birds which toddle forwards playing a loud, irritating tune. Apart from a small switch hidden in the base, the only way to silence them is to seize them around the throat, at which point they make gasping and choking sounds.
Philosophically I am usually in sync with the SPCA, but sometimes they just don't make any damn sense. I mean they know these are "mechanical" chickens don't they?
The toy kind of sounds like something my stepson would have just loved. He was twisted that way.
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Would that same logic be appropriate if someone manufactured a "mechanical black person" that squawked when you hanged him from a tree?
ReplyDeleteThe point the SPCA is probably trying to make is that "toys" like this desensitize children to suffering.
Well Lynne, I don't put black people and chickens in the same category. I mean I eat chickens, while I have never even nibbled a black person. (No offense.)
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