The Yetonamr Pull String Teething Toy promised sensory bliss for babies. Instead, it delivered six silicone tentacles long enough to reach the back of a child’s throat—because apparently someone skipped the chapter on “basic toy safety.” After 32 choking incidents, regulators have pulled the plug on about 6,800 of the toys sold on Amazon by Longyanguiheng.
The design looks innocent: an off‑white disc, a bright red or blue center ball, colorful strings, spinning rings, push buttons. But those strings violate mandatory toy‑safety standards and can lodge deep enough to cause respiratory distress, choking, or worse. Not exactly the soothing experience parents were going for.
Consumers are being told to remove the toy immediately, cut off every last tentacle, scrawl “DESTROYED” across the body, and send photographic proof to the seller for a refund. It’s less “baby enrichment” and more “crime‑scene documentation,” but here we are.
Sold between June and October 2025 for $10–$16, the toy is now a reminder that even the simplest baby gear can go wildly off‑script when safety testing is treated like a suggestion.
So farewell, tentacled teether. You were supposed to calm infants, not audition for a horror franchise!
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