Executing Marv
from the fun-for-the-whole-family dept
This one is just scary. Apparently, there's a new toy that is just a doll in an electric chair that you can fry (and which will make fun of you afterward). That's right, it's Death Row Marv and it's apparently very popular. There's a waiting list at many stores to buy him, and people come in to stores all the time just to fry Marv. Seems a bit on the extreme side. Actually, it seems like the type of thing that some politician is going to use to demonstrate how evil a society his opposition's political party has created. At first it would seem like a good thing for Bush to use as a typical "family values" thing, but somehow I don't think Bush has any place to be trashing anything to do with the electric chair.
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