My DD was almost burned by a novelty lighter at the Dollar Store today!

[hrh_disney_queen]

Target has some good ones though. They don't listen only half of the time. And they are half the price of the Saks ones.

Maybe I can pick up a good one on ebay..NWT?

 

[Lintasare]

Maybe I can pick up a good one on ebay..NWT?

I wouldn't do Ebay...you never know what you are going to get. The auction says you are bidding on an 18 year old with a full ride to Harvard but in the mail you get a 6 month old with the runs.

 

[Daxx]

They still make them..you can get them at ......THE DOLLAR TREE!!! I got some at Halloween, but now they are "candy sticks" and they don't have the red end on it...but they taste exactly the same!!

Maybe you're supposed to use the guitar lighters to light them and get the red bit at the end?!?!?!

 

[Mouse House Mama]

I agree with you, many times my kids have gone into the Dollar Tree with a buck clutched in their hands to shop. They can touch things as long as they are careful with it. If they break it, we bought it. Who would expect that lighter wasn't a toy? No one watches their kids that closely, and even if they did..like you said it looked like a toy. It would be best if they were banned, but at least put them up out of reach of any unsuspecting person, child or adult. I don't always read the display when I pick something up, if it were behind the counter I would know why.

I guess some of the people on this thread wouldn't have a problem with the butcher knives with the Mickey Mouse handles sitting out on the counter...(OK, I made that up, but an attractive nuisance is and attractive nuisance.) Making dangerous things attractive to children is just asking for trouble.

I did want to add here that the pizza cutters are at child level. In fact dh and I both remarked to each other that it was an accident waiting to happen.

 

[Daxx]

I did want to add here that the pizza cutters are at child level. In fact dh and I both remarked to each other that it was an accident waiting to happen.

The cheese graters are def. at child level as well. Be careful of those, too.

 

[Mono~rail]

Here's a picture of one. I certainly wouldn't know it was one, unless someone pointed it out.

http://budk.com/product.asp?pn=28%20GD27866&c2p=hp&bhcd2=1202187244

OK, I've read the entire thread, and since no one else has pointed this out, I will - THAT IS A CRACK LIGHTER!

Yeah, a torch lighter for smoking crack rock or other hard drugs. No, I'm not a crackhead, but I do watch Intervention, Weeds, Breaking Bad, Celebrity Rehab, etc.

That is not a regular cigarette lighter that has the child safety mechanism to keep kids from igniting them. That is a torch lighter so drug heads can smoke their whatever easier.

Under no circumstances should something like that be in reach of everyone. Especially since it looks like a toy!

My kids touch stuff in stores. I use logic for what they can and can't touch. Add me to the bad parent roster. How else will they learn how to behave appropriately if they aren't given opportunities to learn?

 

[TinkerbellMama]

Only at the very high-end stores like Saks. The ones you buy at the dollar store don't listen to you worth a darn.

And they shoot fire out of their mouths and singe your arm hairs, without notice!

 

[hrh_disney_queen]

OK, I've read the entire thread, and since no one else has pointed this out, I will - THAT IS A CRACK LIGHTER!

Yeah, a torch lighter for smoking crack rock or other hard drugs. No, I'm not a crackhead, but I do watch Intervention, Weeds, Breaking Bad, Celebrity Rehab, etc.

That is not a regular cigarette lighter that has the child safety mechanism to keep kids from igniting them. That is a torch lighter so drug heads can smoke their whatever easier.

Under no circumstances should something like that be in reach of everyone. Especially since it looks like a toy!

My kids touch stuff in stores. I use logic for what they can and can't touch. Add me to the bad parent roster. How else will they learn how to behave appropriately if they aren't given opportunities to learn?

OMG..makes sense..someone who is needing a fix really fast can't be bothered with a safety lock...

 

[hrh_disney_queen]

I wouldn't do Ebay...you never know what you are going to get. The auction says you are bidding on an 18 year old with a full ride to Harvard but in the mail you get a 6 month old with the runs.

 

[RobInBigKC]

I did want to add here that the pizza cutters are at child level. In fact dh and I both remarked to each other that it was an accident waiting to happen.

The cheese graters are def. at child level as well. Be careful of those, too.

Completely different. Apples to oranges. Pizza cutters and cheese graters do not look like toys. Novelty lighters do.

-- Rob

 

[LaraK]

Totally OT, but god, I miss those things!!!!!! I loved that minty, chalky taste!!!!

We've got the old fashioned ones that come in a pack that look like Marboros in the ice cream store near me...red tip and everything.

All of you people buying new kids must be made of money...I can only afford hand me downs...a girl with my personality and a boy with my husband's....damn our mothers and that mother curse!!!!!

 

[wishspirit]

You guys crack me up!

But honestly, i am glad your daughter wasn't hurt, and IT WASNT YOUR FAULT! It was the store and the goverment to blame. There is no need for lighters to look like toys. Just buy functional lighters! I do pick things up in stores, in fact i have picked up things i thought were mere trinkets as a souvieneer, then realised it had a place for flames to shoot out!

In England you can't sell lighters to under 16's (soon to be changed to 18 with the smoking law changing i think), and HAVE to be out of a childs reach. Heck some of these should be out of an adults reach! I could of scorched myself on those things!

Plus this whole 'shouldn't touch' thing. Maybe she was thinking about buying something that looked like a keychain in a cool design? I wouldn't deny a kid the chance to look at it! Does the whole 'no touch' rule apply to adults too? Cause i sure as heck don't follow it! I pick up two boxes of cereal to read the nutritonal guidelines on the back, but without the intention of buying both of them. Does that make me a bad person? Should a child look at a toy to see what it can do before deciding to purchase it with their money? A seven year old is not an idiot, they can make some of this decison themselves.

I would also like to add to all those 'Perfect Mothers' out there that if that had happened to your kid. Say a toy you bought for them had burst into flames, would you go 'well thats my fault for not watching???' Heck no! You would be suing that company in a second! That is what these things look like... TOYS!!!!

 

[Mkrop]

Is there a return policy on these kids you can purchase at Saks, I think mine our defective J/K kids!

I am one of those parents that say 'dont touch from the time we walk in to the time we walk out." yet they still manage to touch things go figure.

 

[Lintasare]

We've got the old fashioned ones that come in a pack that look like Marboros in the ice cream store near me...red tip and everything.

All of you people buying new kids must be made of money...I can only afford hand me downs...a girl with my personality and a boy with my husband's....damn our mothers and that mother curse!!!!!

I hear you can now trade them in for a new model. Did you keep your receipt?

 

[Lintasare]

Is there a return policy on these kids you can purchase at Saks, I think mine our defective J/K kids!

I am one of those parents that say 'dont touch from the time we walk in to the time we walk out." yet they still manage to touch things go figure.

Look at the back of your receipt...it says there what the return policy is.

 

[maxiesmom]

All of you people buying new kids must be made of money...I can only afford hand me downs...a girl with my personality and a boy with my husband's....damn our mothers and that mother curse!!!!!

Heck, I can't even afford a kid with my personality. I had to settle for a dog. But she gets more and more like me every day, I swear! She's a demanding princess who likes to get her own way! At least I don't have to worry about her picking stuff up at the dollar store!

 

[RitaZ.]

Is there a return policy on these kids you can purchase at Saks, I think mine our defective J/K kids!

I am one of those parents that say 'dont touch from the time we walk in to the time we walk out." yet they still manage to touch things go figure.

Well, I've got you beat! I used to tell my children before leaving the house, en route and once we got to our destination. I don't think I was too effective because they still touched stuff.

 

[disneyfav4ever]

I agree with the OP, the store should have taken some precautions, and not of put lighters anywhere near where a child could reach them.

 

[Eviie]

Posting again! Very glad your daughter didn't get hurt... but was i the only one who saw one of the lighters in that video that was a red lipstick! Can you imagine some lady buying it, and putting on the lipstick and finding out that it shoots flames and burns her lips! That could've easily happened with an adult, so the chances are even higher with a kid!