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The Consumer Product Safety Commission has just banned the sale of Buckyballs, those magic magnets that can be shaped any which way, because the balls are a serious health hazard for children.

A U.S. consumer group wants McDonald's Corp to stop using Happy Meal toys to lure children into its restaurants and has threatened to sue if the world's biggest hamburger chain does not comply within 30 days.

The Rapid City Police Department seized all of the sex toys and related merchandise from the Spencer’s store at Rushmore Mall late Monday night as possible evidence of the national retailer's failure to register as an adult-oriented business.

Happy Meal toys and other promotions that come with high-calorie children's meals will soon be banned in parts of Santa Clara County unless the restaurants meet nutritional guidelines approved Tuesday by the county Board of Supervisors.

"This ordinance prevents restaurants from preying on children's' love of toys" to sell high-calorie, unhealthful food, said Supervisor Ken Yeager, who sponsored the measure. "This ordinance breaks the link between unhealthy food and prizes."

The EU toy safety directive, agreed and implemented by Government, states that balloons must not be blown up by unsupervised children under the age of eight, in case they accidentally swallow them and choke ... [d]espite having been popular favourites for generations of children, party games including whistles and magnetic fishing games are to be banned because their small parts or chemicals used in making them are decreed to be too risky.

The super-sized Queens Democrat seeking a ban on McDonald's Happy Meal toys is himself a cautionary tale on the consequences of scarfing down too many Big Macs, Marcia Comrie said.

"He doesn't do it in front of me -- he knows it's the bane of my existence," she said of her 335-pound husband's fast-food-devouring ways. "But the results are there for anyone to see."

See, all you need is cool toys and the law enforcement agencies will not arrest you. Well, that is if you're not a brown person.

my hometown-a little town called dixon, il, is not trying to outlaw LEGAY THINGS. who would've thought. dixon has become a police state within the past four or five years and anything that is fun is wrong. kind of like in footloose.but yeah, this stuff that is great for people on probation (for pot) have k2 which is surprisingly different from the other 'legal buds' available. this one actually works. and of course, the propaganda has started rolling in (the dpd and newspaper are best buddies) and now it's time to make more things illegal and harder to find. awesome.

Bureaucrats continue to think they can regulate businesses, and also what people can eat and drink. This is outrageous.