Kid's walkie-talkie "had a mouth like a trucker"

[KC4RAN]

Sometimes you just can't make this stuff up...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26081076?GT1=43001



A West Virginia mother is seeking a recall of a popular walkie-talkie after her 3-year-old’s toy apparently intercepted a profanity-laced conversation between truckers about drugs and strip clubs



Pancaro, who bought the toy on Aug. 2, said she sent a letter to Fisher-Price, urging it to either fix the toy so it wouldn’t pick up CB chatter or pull the product from the shelves.

[W2JGA]

Sounds like she didn't read the manual. You know, the little FCC part about this device must accept interference from other devices bla bla bla.

[KB3PXR]

It seems that this device was deliberately set up to operate on channel 19 on the chicken band. I see no way that the device could have picked up the conversation otherwise especially at that distance even if the truckers had megawatt liner amps.

[K3ACE]

I don't know how they are designed today, but it the old days they received the entire band. The transmit frequency was channel 14 or something like that.

[N4PRT]

Another truly ignorant party heard from. She buys a "walkie talkie" which by its very name implies operation on the CB spectrum, and then has a mental meltdown when it picks up public CB transmissions. DUH...

What about all of the other children's products that are also CB walkie talkies? And the "horrid" conversation--something that can be heard almost any night on plain old television. Beware baby monitors too--I was once treated to my neighbors whoopee session on one.

She needs to keep junior away from ham radio also. I regularly hear OPs on 75m discussing their visit to the proctologist, several sorts of drunks rambling on about racist subjects, and those pictures on 14.230 can be a little racy.

Truckers smoking weed and going to a strip club. Imagine that...:rolleyes:

[W7WV]

Just think, wait until she finds out what her child finds on the internet in a few years.
I guess they will have recall the computers? :rolleyes:
Get the kid a couple of cans with string. You'll never get your strings crossed there! :eek:

[K0RGR]

I had to make a big stink a number of years ago, because I was taking my then little girl to the skating rink every morning at 5:30 so she could get some free ice time to practice.

One morning, the janitors had left a radio going with the most obscene radio program I have ever heard. I can't say it was 'X' rated, but it was a triple-R rating for sex, sex, and more sex.

I didn't mind if the janitors listened to this, but I didn't think it was appropriate for pre-teen girls, or for my wife for that matter.

That convinced me that FCC was really fast asleep. That stuff was being broadcast.

[WA6MHZ]

Just another story to get people excited and sell newspapers! Yawn. If they want to hear some language and conversations that aren't fit for Sunday church, listen to the 435 repeater in LA!

[K0DXC]

Sometimes you just can't make this stuff up...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26081076?GT1=43001

That's nice. I wonder what that child will turn out to be like.....


MOM: "Son, please go and clean up your room for mommy."



KID: " **** U!"


I can already see it on youtube.

[K2WH]

I remember my first walkie talkie, had a regen receiver with a single plastic package xmit crystal.

K2WH

[WF7A]

"I tell ya, I get no respect, even as a kid: On one birthday, my parents bought me one walkie-talkie." --Rodney Dangerfield.

[ka5s]

I remember my first walkie talkie, had a regen receiver with a single plastic package xmit crystal.

K2WH

I padded such a 3 transistor "CB walkie-talkie" down to 15 meters back in the 1970's and while I never did work anyone with my mighty 100mW I did get great reception of Radio Australia.

Cortland
KA5S

[k9roo]

/me chuckles. Well I Don't know about your walkie talkies when you were growing up, but every one of mine was able to pick up phone conversations off cordless handsets. Imagine the conversations on that! ;)

[ab8ro]

Another truly ignorant party heard from. She buys a "walkie talkie" which by its very name implies operation on the CB spectrum, and then has a mental meltdown when it picks up public CB transmissions. DUH...


No, most are 49Mhz, not that moms know that sort of thing. I'm curious if anyone knows where the toy is in the spectrum? Perhaps Fisher Price is using the 27Mhz part-15 allocation so as to avoid having the toy potentially pick up phone conversations or the baby monitor?

[N5RLR]

That's nice. I wonder what that child will turn out to be like.....

MOM: "Son, please go and clean up your room for mommy."

KID: " **** U!"
Eh, not surprising, really. I knew one kid who was backtalking his parents like this at 4-5 years of age, circa 1970.

By the time I reached junior high school in the mid-1970s, quite a few kids were getting away with it. A lot of it had to do with them being in single-parent homes, "latchkey kids," etc.

...Well, I don't know about your walkie talkies when you were growing up, but every one of mine was able to pick up phone conversations off cordless handsets. Imagine the conversations on that! ;)
Given that 49-MHz cordless phone handsets sometimes shared frequencies with 49-MHz "talkies," this is entirely possible. FCC Part 15 and all that bit.

[kn4ds]

No, most are 49Mhz, not that moms know that sort of thing. I'm curious if anyone knows where the toy is in the spectrum? Perhaps Fisher Price is using the 27Mhz part-15 allocation so as to avoid having the toy potentially pick up phone conversations or the baby monitor?
No info on Wal-Mart's website about the frequency in use... http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=5716962

Also not such great reviews.

[kc9jwa]

Yep, anymore you cant get away from sex convos, or curesing, nuttin, its evrywhere, its over rated, and now kids are watching and listing to it, cartoons to including violence, all i can say is they will learn young and i hope they grow up and take the right path.:)

[kc9mav]

[QUOTE=K0DXC;1311871]That's nice. I wonder what that child will turn out to be like.....


MOM: "Son, please go and clean up your room for mommy."



KID: " **** U!"


I can already see it on youtube.[/QUOTE

LOL!

That would be funny!

Yeah even though I am 13 and don't really care about profanity I think the stuff on CB is awful.

[k9roo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfwOqlnCKQs

note: mods forgive me, the youtube video contains slight profanity, but its really funny. ^_^

other note: If this was my kid, I'd not only wash his mouth out, make his butt so red, I'd take away his video games and store them away until he was 18. Though TBH, I think video games are a complete waste of life. When I've kids, no video games in the house. They want to be entertained, they need to go solve a sudoku puzzle or go make something which will be productive.

That's nice. I wonder what that child will turn out to be like.....


MOM: "Son, please go and clean up your room for mommy."



KID: " **** U!"


I can already see it on youtube.

LOL!

That would be funny!

Yeah even though I am 13 and don't really care about profanity I think the stuff on CB is awful.

[N7RJD]

[URL] If this was my kid, I'd not only wash his mouth out....

Too old school. McIlhenny Tabasco works so much better. Kind of like Brille Cream, little dab'll do you. No need for a red butt either, this stuff will leave the face red enough to stop traffic for miles.

[N7RJD]

Sounds like she didn't read the manual. You know, the little FCC part about this device must accept interference from other devices bla bla bla.

Just another case of someone expecting the world to be a perfect place. When it's not they start whining until somebody gives in.

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If I tried that behavior in the Youtube video, my father would have sledge hammered the game box and dribbled me like a basketball.

[KC2STS]

When I was a kid our walkie-talkies were two tin cans with a wire attached to the bottoms. Short range, no DX. Put the can to your ear to listen, talk into the can to transmit. The wire had to be held taught, otherwise, no signal.