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Subscribe to RSSPopular metal water bottles are posing a surprising danger as kids are getting their tongues stuck inside and undergoing serious procedures to be freed. NBC's Jeff Rossen reports.
A lot of us buy metal water bottles for our kids. But Today National Investigative Correspondent Jeff Rossen found these metal bottles are causing a new problem: kids getting their tongues stuck inside.
It may sound like a joke, but doctors say it's serious -- so serious, one company has stopped selling many of them.
Watch the Rossen Report above or click here to read about the problem.
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The tongue is a flexible muscle. If it can be worked into the bottle, it can be worked out of the bottle. The material of the bottle should not matter.
If kids are really getting their tongues stuck, then let it be a lesson to them, and a way to weed out subpar human genetics.
All the metal water bottles that I have seen have very large openings. The openings are usually about 1 1/2" ID.
The 'parents' want to sue the company. I'd sue the parents for raising stupid kids.
Take some responsibility. Its called parenting.
I'm very proud of my own genes. At 72 yrs old, it never once occurred to me to stick my tongue
in a water bottle. The tongue should only be used for french kissing!
That's right, let's sue the company, rather than instructing our children NOT to stick their tongues into a freaking water bottle. Maybe we should ban warehouse food stores because our children might get their heads caught in gallon size food jars. Perhaps my child might decide to see if his tongue (or God forbid),some other body part in the nozzle of the gas tank of my car! I think the founding fathers of our country would have torn up the Declaration of Independence if they would have gotten a glimpse of the future and said these people are too freaking stupid to rule themselves. There is no place for common sense in today's narcissistic, self-absorbed society. We have failed as parents to instill the ideas of moral and ethical treatment of our fellow human beings. I'm not quite sure what we should be putting down for RACE on forms because HUMAN was what we should have been given instead of an ethnicity, but I don't think that human would be the proper answer anymore. It's really a shame.
Next they will want to ban metal flagpoles in States that have freezing weather occationally. Would not want any dumb kids to put their tongue against them when it if below freezing outside.
How about banning stoves that can burn you when you put your hand on the glowing red metal or into the flame.