Charlie doesn’t know that we call pacifiers “dummies” because insulting your kids is actually how British parents raise their children. It’s like the first step in all the British guides to parenthood
Charlie exclaiming, "That's my buddy, Josh!" is now my text ringtone. Not because of some weird parasocial thing, but because I can't wait for it to go off in a meeting.
As a parent of 11 foster children, 8 of whom I’ve raised since birth, any child under the age of three should NEVER go unsupervised, especially when eating or playing…
This is why "ages 4 and up" is usually provided for most toys that aren't guaranteed super safe, and then "6 and up" is for like anything that involves doing something physical and "10 and up" is for any sort of mental engagement beyond pretend play or tic tac toe.
Okay sure but I also feel like those parents are probably dumb enough to feed their baby bleach if there didn't exist warning labels... Some people just have zero logical thinking skills it seems. If you can't figure out to not let your very small child play with plastic toys unsupervised they are just straight up dumb or they didn't care/lazy. Like Kindereggs are banned in the USA because apparently the adults there can't figure out to not give those toys to kids who wants to chew or taste everything and end up choking and dying. Sometimes I'm just at awe how fucking stupid the general populace of human kind is... Some people push science forward and create medical miracles an then there's dumbasses who let their toddlers suffocate on plastic toys... And because we have almost no dangers facing us humans anymore the dumbasses does not get deleted from the genepool as nature intended. So as a result we are over time gonna get even more stupid. We are "evolving" into degeneracy.
1:07 I imagine that they're called dummies cause dumb used to mean mute, so if you stick one in your mouth you become "dumb" as in mute And they're called pacifiers cause they pacify the child, which still makes sense with modern definitions, unlike the word dumb which is no longer used in that context
I remember the pokeball deaths, and I also remember that we as kids (at least my siblings and I) used to put the red part of the ball over our mouths and suck the air out making the seal air tight. The dip in the red part that would go around the “button” part of the white half would sit just under our noses. I do remember our grandmother seeing us do it and yelling at us to stop because she herd of the deaths on the news. Maybe because we were older?? But there was no way the ball was fitting around our mouths and noses
As a parent of 2 small children (one of them is 11 months old) I never stop getting warned about all the possible dangers to infants especially with small objects. Now I know why they beat that information into new parent's heads. I don't even take a shower if my baby isn't safe asleep in his crib with a monitor in the bedroom. I can't imagine leaving him alone with a small toy that's designed for 3+ years old unsupervised... The 4 month old was the worst!
@TimeToTrollYay why would burguer king be responsable of parents not paying attention to their kids with a toy? Literally ALL toys have that little label that says "dont leave with children unsupervised" If anyone wants to blame BK for this its a Karen for sure.
I'm gonna be honest, I think the 4 month old was a murder. Like, back then they didn't recommend puree until 6 months old, it's only recently been changed to 4 months- so nothing but formula or mothers milk. Sure, they could have had a toddler, but that toy being in the 4 month old's crib doesn't make sense at all. Babies scratch themselves so they usually wear mits when alone at that age. You are telling me a 4 month old had the coordination to put that over their nose and mouth and suck on it to suction it to their face without it slipping out of their clumsy fingers (even if they weren't covered in soft cloth)? I remember suctioning cups and such to my face as a kid- I can see how it'd be dangerous if the half ball were to form a seal around the nose and chin at an angle. I can understand it with any age above 10+ months. 2 years? Absolutely. I CANNOT see it with a 4 month old. Three/four months is the point at which they just stopped being a potato. Also tv was big back then, and ad's ran every 25 minutes. Even if you weren't watching it, it was on in the background. No way after a month of recall ads did they not see it at least ONCE.
I remember that. I had one of those toys, and my sister and I were awe-struck that it was even possible to die from a toy we got from Burger King. We tried replicating the accidents (because we were kids, and kids are fucking stupid), but we were unable to get anything close to an air-tight seal. I guess our faces were too big. Anyway, small children are like the MacGyvers of suicide. NEVER leave them alone with anything, because they will absolutely find a way.
Your final paragraph reminds of that old multiplayer game from 2015 or so game called “Who’s Your Daddy?” where one player controls a father and the other player controls a baby who’s goal is to kill themselves in the most silly cartoonishly ridiculous way possible before the timer runs out.
Charlies hair having a "messy" part is driving me nuts as someone with equally long hair. I HATE when my hair does that, the fact he can get on camera and not fix it is truly something inspirational.
crazy to think that entire pokéball thing could’ve been avoided by just adding a tiny hole in the underside of the toy. i guess that’s why they do that now.
my 3y/o nieces aren’t even unsupervised while eating. The food in a bk kids meal alone is a huge choking hazard, let alone giving them a new plastic toy and then just going to take a shower.
I can picture him on the court after the game. "Aight guys, great game but I don't have time to stick around. I've got a bomb to drop on my audience regarding some weirdo who's been curing his addiction to suckling on teets by hijacking pacifiers straight out of babies' mouths. Catch ya'll later!"
I remember the Pokeball thing... I still have a few of them. The ball's halves are totally solid, so yeah, if your face is small enough to fit in and you breathe out and then try to breathe in with it on your face... vacuum seal. It wasn't the last time they did Pokeballs like that, but subsequent runs had little holes in the bottom so you couldn't get a seal
It might seem as if the parents were being reckless, but if they have never experienced how careful you need to be with babies: terrible mistakes can happen. In my country, midwives visit new parents houses and educate them on childproofing the premises. My friend does that job, and a lot of new parents are shocked at how many dangers there are.
@@DaisyAjayI'm sure there are lots of things people wouldn't realise are threats to babies (myself included), but I honestly CANNOT imagine leaving a baby unsupervised for 20 minutes. It feels like common sense to always watch your baby? It's like the ads about watching your kids around water bc they can drown so quickly. Like, idk why they have to make ads for something that seems like it'd be common sense
same with the woman who let their kid get burnt by a chicken nugget, I can bet to sue mc donalds and I hope these parents didnt do this to sue but the fact they sued may answer that since my grandmother when I was a baby died because of shit staff in her old folks home, my mother and grandfather didn't bother to sue since the pain of losing her was so much, they didn't care for any money they would get and also my Mum didn't want my grandfather to go through that moment more than he had too with a lawsuit
I totally remember when the Burger King Pokéball recall happened. We just kept ours anyway, and the pokéballs did come in different sizes. I don't blame them for freaking out, as kids also had a habit of sucking plastic cups to their faces, but those Pokémon toys (aside from the pokéballs) were small and should have been nowhere near children under 3 years old to begin with.
My suspicion is that kids that young don't have a good understanding on how to get out of situations. They might just be thinking about playing with the plastic covering their mouths when they suddenly think "need air, breathe" which ends up obstructing. Because they don't know about relaxing / exhaling to releive the pressure, they just try and brute-force by sucking harder and harder.
I also remember it. My friends and I had a discussion in school about the recall - none of us got rid our ours, either. We were pretty miffed at the time, as IIRC the toys were pretty clearly marked for at least ages 3+ if not older. Some of us had been really excited to see them released, and we were pretty mad about them being snatched off the market because someone didn't pay attention to age ratings. It doesn't change the fact that some innocent infants/toddlers suffered or died, though. That's still terrible. Went through a similar situation a few years earlier, when Wonder Balls were recalled for technically containing a non-edible item completely encased in the edible chocolate shell (the middle had a plastic sphere with a surprise toy). I think there are still Wonderballs in the USA now, but they have candy pieces inside instead.
In terms of the Pokémon incident: I still have some of those pokeballs and toys from getting them myself as a kid (I’m 29). Those deaths were 100% the parents fault. They were negligent and stupid, as evidenced from the fact that I never came close to having that happen to me
Six months old is when babies start getting introduced to solids. But it even said on the package of those kids meal toys to not give them to kids below 2-3 years of age. Basically. The parents didn't bother with safety checking. Maybe its because my hormones hit different when my daughter was born but I wouldn't have dared give her a hard plastic pokeball or toy. She's got a plushie bulbasaur, charmander and squirtle instead.
Dude the pokeball thing makes zero sense to me why it was burger King or the toy's fault. These awful parents are leaving babies that still are at the age of using pacifiers and bottles, that they suck on vigorously, an object that had hard plastic edges (I had one as a kid, I remember) and can be stuck to their faces. Like?????? Just watch your kids. It's not that hard.
I actually remember the Pokeball one. I was 8 years old during the time that those toys were out and yeah when they started handing out the Pokemon in these little bags instead of the pokeballs I asked my mom why and she flat-out explained that the pokeballs were dangerous for some kids. Then later I learned it killed a couple 😢
Wealthy people in this era can stay much healthier much longer if they want to. Athletes commonly travel to Mexico for new stemcell procedures and treatments.
Something like this happened to my kid. She was playing with some stacking cups. She had one on her face. I just casually walked up and took it off her face and she made a huge gasp. Yeah, to my horror I suddenly realized she couldn't breathe.
It's cause unlike adults kids don't know that to get something vacuumed to their face off they have to EXHALE or crush it to deform the seal. Instead they'll panic as they run out of oxygen and try to breathe in. Which just increases the vacuum seal. And repeat till they passed and die.
OH MY GOD that's scary, good on you for being there & alert with her, regardless of whether it looked like an emergency at the time - something that would have saved many young lives
The thing about the photo of his back while he's wearing a hoodie- it isn't impossible that someone recognized him from that. The FBI actually has a catalog of random photos of items that are taken from illegal imagery and these random images of items are posted online in hopes that someone can recognize the item in the picture and report it to the FBI to try and apprehend the person for the heinous shit they're doing, and it's actually successfully worked a handful of times!
Same innit. What are the chances the one time Charlie talks about Essex, it's to talk about a probable nonce. Probably quite high, considering it's essex lol
Turns out the pacifier bandit got caught when a baby hunted him down to tell him that he's not a kid, he's a dwarf. And thats not a pacifier. Its a butt plug.
From what I've seen, nothing is wrong with the Pokeball toy. It's probably parental neglect, and also that probably could've happened with any other spherical object. Edit: I totally misunderstood it, I didn't realize the ball was open and they were suffocating like that. Either way, my point still stands, I don't think that's a problem with the toy. That's a problem with the parent or guardian that let it happen.
Fr. I can't imagine leaving a baby alone with a new random toy, especially not for 20 minutes! I know her sisters were with her, but its still a long time with no adult supervision. My mum used to take me into the bathroom with her when I was that young, and I'd do the same if I had a baby, otherwise I'd be so stressed the whole time.
"All I did was leave my literal infant alone in his crib with plastic bags, small plastic toys, shards of glass, and rat poison while I took a 45-minute shower. HOW COULD THIS HAVE HAPPENED?!?!"
@@CallumsArmyMy nephew has one, brand new, and it doesn't have any breathing holes in it. These toys aren't meant for infants, so they don't need to be designed for infants. Parents just need to not be neglectful morons. It would have happened with the food or some other toy sooner or later with that kind of parenting.
the toy _did_ have a serious design flaw, to be fair; that’s why similar products have a little hole poked in the bottom (to prevent proper suction from forming). i’ve also always just assumed that the babies got their hands on the pokéballs from an older sibling or something, in which case i don’t think it’s fair to put it all on the parents. but, obviously, no one can really know for sure how all this happened. babies are strange little creatures who i do not claim to understand ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I imagine the guy who steals pacifiers from babies is feeding them to a pacifier eating monster, but claims he uses it for himself to hide the monster from the world. That would be interesting
The pokeball thing feels… ominous af. Like why were all these parents just conveniently gone for so long? Lemme get my tinfoil hat on and ask do y’all think some of those parents might’ve just wanted to kill their baby and throw the blame at Burger King? I know we’ve all heard of parents doing worse.
I remember the pokeball thing. Sometime during/after the promotion, I guess they had extra pokemon toys because they were giving away the toys that would go inside the pokeballs. There was a raffle where you could put your name on a form and put it into a box, and then they'd draw the winning names. My mom entered me, my older brother, my younger brother, and possibly my younger sister. My younger brother ended up winning twice, so he got two sets of pokemon toys (minus the pokeballs). My mom said that he had to share them. She also knew it would be impossible to keep me away from the toys, because I was the one who brought the Pokemon craze into our house a few years earlier after a friend told me about it. I was obsessed and I'm still a little obsessed even in my 30s.
@@lightninggreninja4676there are so many synonyms for thief beginning with p and yet you went for a word that doesn’t even work. I’m very disappointed in you lightninggreninja4676
@@lightninggreninja4676 yes, but that’s not how the word is used. If someone’s a jewel thief they aren’t a “jewel perpetrator” they’re just a perpetrator or a perpetrator of a jewel theft
On the pokeball incident mentioned later in the video: Imagine the mother’s despair when she found her daughter dead…..the father’s panic before he managed to pry it off of his daughter’s face just in time….jesus Christ man
petition: from now on if you’re gonna crime, make it one of these crimes that forces courts to double check the legal code like a fuckin rule book to tell what crime it even is
i just remembered about a poke ball toy that i had around 8 years ago, i always wondered why there were tiny holes on each part of the ball but i guess that was a direct result of the burger king situation
You would have a lot more than that. The porygon episode. And the pokemon go thing where people were walking into oncoming traffic, and other injuries as a result of not paying attention while walking around
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Since you mentioned it several times you can start babies on solids sometime between 4 and 6 months, but it's really only supposed to be for fun, so they should have a normal milk meal first, I genuinely don't understand the parents I've seen feeding their baby, that can barely even keep its head up, fast food let alone a damn kids meal
My best guess as to why they call pacifiers “dummies” is because “dummy” can be a term for something fake, or a decoy, so crash test dummies for example. Pacifiers are meant to be like nipples for babies, so it could be a dummy nipple. That’s my best guess
I’m a linguist and this is one of the weird, useless facts I know. But the reason Brits call them dummies is because they make the baby stop making noise. Another word for “mute” is “dumb”. The original meaning of “dumb” is someone unable to speak. And the dummy renders the baby dumb. Hence the current word “dumbfounded” still has a similar meaning. But what you say above could well also be the case, there are many words that have multiple reasons for being what they are.
That seems to be it. Only info I could find was referencing an article in a nursing publication from 19foreverago says a doctor referred to pacifiers as "dummy teats".
the pokemon toys are mostly the parents fault. those toys weren't designed with babies in mind. babies aren't even supposed to be eating fast food, when they make their transition to real food it should be stuff like cheerios and yogurt
Charlie doesn’t know that we call pacifiers “dummies” because insulting your kids is actually how British parents raise their children. It’s like the first step in all the British guides to parenthood
they caall them pacifiers in the US because they're obsessed with war
@@AeroskliceI’m American and that was a banger 💯
@@Aerosklicestops the babies from committing war crimes lmao
To be fair 'pacifier' is also a horrifying name. Why would you need to pacify your children?
@@milward4563because babies are loud and mean
Charlie is like your weird older brother who's always showing you stuff he found online
Roderick from Diary of a wimpy kid 🤣
I didn't think someone could encapsulate the vibe I get from him heh
@@JohnnyTurnerMusiche likes metal music too 😭😭🤣😂
wait your completely right this is the perfect way to explain charlie
Bro that's kinda crazy he doesn't have a brother or sibling. As a middle child I can only imagine being an Only Child
Charlie exclaiming, "That's my buddy, Josh!" is now my text ringtone. Not because of some weird parasocial thing, but because I can't wait for it to go off in a meeting.
lol
How'd that go Josh? Didja get to use it?
Charlie talking about his old age despite being just slightly younger than me is always a sobering experience
Idk how old he is but I'm 24 and never felt better, don't trust the propaganda
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When you hit _actual_ old age, even 40 year olds can seem like kids.
@@neo-didact9285when you hit actual real old age 50 year Olds can seem like kids
@@RustyNipswhen your dead living seems like kids
The Pokémon toy deaths were 99% the fault of the parents. You should never let children that young play with anything unsupervised.
Yeah I feel like they can’t be held liable for that 4 month old especially. That was pure negligence.
Yep. Those toys weren't designed for anybody under 4 anyway.
Many parents have such baffling thought processes
The only toys your X month old child should have are actual baby toys not kids meal toys!!
@@Shift_Salt And sometimes if not all times, even then they should be supervised.
As a parent of 11 foster children, 8 of whom I’ve raised since birth, any child under the age of three should NEVER go unsupervised, especially when eating or playing…
This is why "ages 4 and up" is usually provided for most toys that aren't guaranteed super safe, and then "6 and up" is for like anything that involves doing something physical and "10 and up" is for any sort of mental engagement beyond pretend play or tic tac toe.
THIS!!!!
Okay sure but I also feel like those parents are probably dumb enough to feed their baby bleach if there didn't exist warning labels... Some people just have zero logical thinking skills it seems. If you can't figure out to not let your very small child play with plastic toys unsupervised they are just straight up dumb or they didn't care/lazy. Like Kindereggs are banned in the USA because apparently the adults there can't figure out to not give those toys to kids who wants to chew or taste everything and end up choking and dying. Sometimes I'm just at awe how fucking stupid the general populace of human kind is... Some people push science forward and create medical miracles an then there's dumbasses who let their toddlers suffocate on plastic toys... And because we have almost no dangers facing us humans anymore the dumbasses does not get deleted from the genepool as nature intended. So as a result we are over time gonna get even more stupid. We are "evolving" into degeneracy.
And yet Kinder Surprise Eggs are still banned in the U.S.A.
@@issabeganovic8822it’s because half the parents here lack the required braincell count to raise a child lmao
@@yunny_double2190 Also, because it's hard to get rid of a law once it's on the books.
1:07 I imagine that they're called dummies cause dumb used to mean mute, so if you stick one in your mouth you become "dumb" as in mute
And they're called pacifiers cause they pacify the child, which still makes sense with modern definitions, unlike the word dumb which is no longer used in that context
Lmao so it's like a "shut up"-y
I remember the pokeball deaths, and I also remember that we as kids (at least my siblings and I) used to put the red part of the ball over our mouths and suck the air out making the seal air tight. The dip in the red part that would go around the “button” part of the white half would sit just under our noses. I do remember our grandmother seeing us do it and yelling at us to stop because she herd of the deaths on the news. Maybe because we were older?? But there was no way the ball was fitting around our mouths and noses
As a parent of 2 small children (one of them is 11 months old) I never stop getting warned about all the possible dangers to infants especially with small objects. Now I know why they beat that information into new parent's heads.
I don't even take a shower if my baby isn't safe asleep in his crib with a monitor in the bedroom. I can't imagine leaving him alone with a small toy that's designed for 3+ years old unsupervised... The 4 month old was the worst!
So I'm not crazy for thinking that this was purely the parents' fault and not Burger King? ( Setting aside their bland and distasteful food ).
@@TimeToTrollYayyeah it’s really just the parents fault
@TimeToTrollYay why would burguer king be responsable of parents not paying attention to their kids with a toy?
Literally ALL toys have that little label that says "dont leave with children unsupervised"
If anyone wants to blame BK for this its a Karen for sure.
Sadly there are still dumb parents out there.
I'm gonna be honest, I think the 4 month old was a murder. Like, back then they didn't recommend puree until 6 months old, it's only recently been changed to 4 months- so nothing but formula or mothers milk. Sure, they could have had a toddler, but that toy being in the 4 month old's crib doesn't make sense at all. Babies scratch themselves so they usually wear mits when alone at that age. You are telling me a 4 month old had the coordination to put that over their nose and mouth and suck on it to suction it to their face without it slipping out of their clumsy fingers (even if they weren't covered in soft cloth)?
I remember suctioning cups and such to my face as a kid- I can see how it'd be dangerous if the half ball were to form a seal around the nose and chin at an angle. I can understand it with any age above 10+ months. 2 years? Absolutely. I CANNOT see it with a 4 month old. Three/four months is the point at which they just stopped being a potato.
Also tv was big back then, and ad's ran every 25 minutes. Even if you weren't watching it, it was on in the background. No way after a month of recall ads did they not see it at least ONCE.
I remember that. I had one of those toys, and my sister and I were awe-struck that it was even possible to die from a toy we got from Burger King. We tried replicating the accidents (because we were kids, and kids are fucking stupid), but we were unable to get anything close to an air-tight seal. I guess our faces were too big.
Anyway, small children are like the MacGyvers of suicide. NEVER leave them alone with anything, because they will absolutely find a way.
Bro you really said “oh they died from this? I can do better”
I mean, given that I'm still here, I guess I made my point.
@@JcoleotThey lost against thr babies.
An airtight seal around your nose AND mouth with only half a Pokeball? NASA couldn't recreate that.
Your final paragraph reminds of that old multiplayer game from 2015 or so game called “Who’s Your Daddy?” where one player controls a father and the other player controls a baby who’s goal is to kill themselves in the most silly cartoonishly ridiculous way possible before the timer runs out.
Charlies hair having a "messy" part is driving me nuts as someone with equally long hair. I HATE when my hair does that, the fact he can get on camera and not fix it is truly something inspirational.
It's spiking my ocd!
@@ANYHOO0ok
on god, it makes me feel way better about myself tbh, as someone who also has long hair that does that
crazy to think that entire pokéball thing could’ve been avoided by just adding a tiny hole in the underside of the toy. i guess that’s why they do that now.
That's why Legos have always had the holes. Most toys include it now aswell
Hot take: There is literally no reason for a baby to have a toy like that and eat Burger King at that age. It's the parents fault imo.
Probably that's why most toys come with an appropriate age of 3 and above.
my 3y/o nieces aren’t even unsupervised while eating. The food in a bk kids meal alone is a huge choking hazard, let alone giving them a new plastic toy and then just going to take a shower.
The 4 month old one is the worst. Who would give a four month old a plastic toy and Burger King alone? That poor child
agreed... bad parenting is the reason..not the toys
That’s not a hot take😂
Charlie showing up drenched in sweat to tell us about this is hilarious to me for some reason.
@Susnation532 seize this guy
It's like when the Skyrim courier shows up during a dragon attack and informs you, while completely on fire, that he has a letter for you
Umm okay?
I can picture him on the court after the game. "Aight guys, great game but I don't have time to stick around. I've got a bomb to drop on my audience regarding some weirdo who's been curing his addiction to suckling on teets by hijacking pacifiers straight out of babies' mouths. Catch ya'll later!"
Plot twist, Charlie was the one to steal the pacifiers and had to quickly catch a plane from Essex back to the US
sometimes watching your videos feels like I walked into my weed-smoking guitar-playing older brother’s room and he’s showing me some shit he found
I remember the Pokeball thing... I still have a few of them. The ball's halves are totally solid, so yeah, if your face is small enough to fit in and you breathe out and then try to breathe in with it on your face... vacuum seal. It wasn't the last time they did Pokeballs like that, but subsequent runs had little holes in the bottom so you couldn't get a seal
parents giving their infants fastfood toys they shouldn't have been given to their infants is so bad not to mentioned they're left unsupervised
It might seem as if the parents were being reckless, but if they have never experienced how careful you need to be with babies: terrible mistakes can happen. In my country, midwives visit new parents houses and educate them on childproofing the premises. My friend does that job, and a lot of new parents are shocked at how many dangers there are.
@@DaisyAjayI'm sure there are lots of things people wouldn't realise are threats to babies (myself included), but I honestly CANNOT imagine leaving a baby unsupervised for 20 minutes. It feels like common sense to always watch your baby?
It's like the ads about watching your kids around water bc they can drown so quickly. Like, idk why they have to make ads for something that seems like it'd be common sense
same with the woman who let their kid get burnt by a chicken nugget, I can bet to sue mc donalds and I hope these parents didnt do this to sue but the fact they sued may answer that since my grandmother when I was a baby died because of shit staff in her old folks home, my mother and grandfather didn't bother to sue since the pain of losing her was so much, they didn't care for any money they would get and also my Mum didn't want my grandfather to go through that moment more than he had too with a lawsuit
I totally remember when the Burger King Pokéball recall happened. We just kept ours anyway, and the pokéballs did come in different sizes. I don't blame them for freaking out, as kids also had a habit of sucking plastic cups to their faces, but those Pokémon toys (aside from the pokéballs) were small and should have been nowhere near children under 3 years old to begin with.
I missed old kids meal toys.
1 time McDonald's had reversible evolution plushie i wanted but couldnt ask my parent to buy for me....
Yea, true.
My suspicion is that kids that young don't have a good understanding on how to get out of situations. They might just be thinking about playing with the plastic covering their mouths when they suddenly think "need air, breathe" which ends up obstructing. Because they don't know about relaxing / exhaling to releive the pressure, they just try and brute-force by sucking harder and harder.
@@Fay7666 Yeah the problem-solving just isn't in that young noggin sadly.
I also remember it. My friends and I had a discussion in school about the recall - none of us got rid our ours, either. We were pretty miffed at the time, as IIRC the toys were pretty clearly marked for at least ages 3+ if not older. Some of us had been really excited to see them released, and we were pretty mad about them being snatched off the market because someone didn't pay attention to age ratings. It doesn't change the fact that some innocent infants/toddlers suffered or died, though. That's still terrible.
Went through a similar situation a few years earlier, when Wonder Balls were recalled for technically containing a non-edible item completely encased in the edible chocolate shell (the middle had a plastic sphere with a surprise toy). I think there are still Wonderballs in the USA now, but they have candy pieces inside instead.
This man had a horrible day and still made content for us.. much love
Huh ?
@@Steephhnnn he meant the basketball shit he's talking about in the beginning
BRO PLAYED LIKE SHIT@@Steephhnnn
@@Steephhnnn it's okay to be confused
@@jankruger5136 thx
In terms of the Pokémon incident: I still have some of those pokeballs and toys from getting them myself as a kid (I’m 29). Those deaths were 100% the parents fault. They were negligent and stupid, as evidenced from the fact that I never came close to having that happen to me
i think the mother who took a 20 minute shower while her 1 year old played with a small toy with no supervision was the biggest red flag of this
Netflix should make a 12 episode documentary of catching the serial manikin pisser. I’d watch it for sure.
10:00 You can literally do that with a plastic cup. You don't need a special design.
The way he tells these goofy stories everyday is why everyone tunes in.
Six months old is when babies start getting introduced to solids. But it even said on the package of those kids meal toys to not give them to kids below 2-3 years of age. Basically. The parents didn't bother with safety checking. Maybe its because my hormones hit different when my daughter was born but I wouldn't have dared give her a hard plastic pokeball or toy. She's got a plushie bulbasaur, charmander and squirtle instead.
Dude the pokeball thing makes zero sense to me why it was burger King or the toy's fault. These awful parents are leaving babies that still are at the age of using pacifiers and bottles, that they suck on vigorously, an object that had hard plastic edges (I had one as a kid, I remember) and can be stuck to their faces. Like?????? Just watch your kids. It's not that hard.
Charlie's misunderstanding of young toddlers eating Burger King is somehow the funniest part of this.
I actually remember the Pokeball one. I was 8 years old during the time that those toys were out and yeah when they started handing out the Pokemon in these little bags instead of the pokeballs I asked my mom why and she flat-out explained that the pokeballs were dangerous for some kids. Then later I learned it killed a couple 😢
Charlie never fails to notify me on something I didn’t know I wanted to see
same
NO WAY, I JUST MET CHARLIE ON MY UA-cam! 100% REAL! (OMG HE JUST CAME TO MY HOUSE AT 3 AM!)😱💯
@Susnation532u a fan
Exactly
@Susnation532no
It never fails to be amusing to me when Charlie acts like he’s old asf like being almost 30 means you’re bordering senile
Always hurts to know you’ll never get your early 20's back
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Wealthy people in this era can stay much healthier much longer if they want to. Athletes commonly travel to Mexico for new stemcell procedures and treatments.
@@thavrisco1632aging is okay there is nothing wrong with aging
@@tfkdandsvkcno but it’s somewhat annoying as it progresses. I’m 41 in decent shape but it still slows you down a bit
Someone going around stealing pacifiers from babies sounds like Joker's holiday when Batman is on vacation.
And thats why most toys say theyre not suitable for children under 3yrs.
Something like this happened to my kid. She was playing with some stacking cups. She had one on her face. I just casually walked up and took it off her face and she made a huge gasp. Yeah, to my horror I suddenly realized she couldn't breathe.
I'm assuming you needed a clean pair of pants after that. I know I would have.
It's cause unlike adults kids don't know that to get something vacuumed to their face off they have to EXHALE or crush it to deform the seal. Instead they'll panic as they run out of oxygen and try to breathe in. Which just increases the vacuum seal. And repeat till they passed and die.
OH MY GOD that's scary, good on you for being there & alert with her, regardless of whether it looked like an emergency at the time - something that would have saved many young lives
Glad I was able to share this with you Charlie. Now you have truly gotten a glimpse at British culture.
mate, if you thought chasing Cheese down a hill was wacky, you have seen nothing yet
Essex culture.
The thing about the photo of his back while he's wearing a hoodie- it isn't impossible that someone recognized him from that. The FBI actually has a catalog of random photos of items that are taken from illegal imagery and these random images of items are posted online in hopes that someone can recognize the item in the picture and report it to the FBI to try and apprehend the person for the heinous shit they're doing, and it's actually successfully worked a handful of times!
This LEGIT sounds like a comedy film’s story 😂
I've been following Charlie for a decade, and I didn't once think he'd cover a story from my hometown. Truly a momentous occasion.
Same innit. What are the chances the one time Charlie talks about Essex, it's to talk about a probable nonce. Probably quite high, considering it's essex lol
It is weird seeing him talking about a story that not only is from the town I grew up, but actually involved my family...
Let's take a moment to appreciate Charlie making content for us after suffering such a deadly injury.
these bots are insane
insano style to be exact
That fly coulda killed him you know!
Wait what happened to Charlie?
@@JAB6322pretty sure it’s some kind of inside joke
@@JAB6322OP is making a joke about Charlie pulling his shoulder being a life threatening injury.
As someone who lives in the UK I am not surprised this happened in Essex.
"it's like stealing dummies from a baby, what could go wrong"
You know the video is gonna be a banger when Charlie drops in greasy and sweaty
NO WAY, I JUST MET CHARLIE ON MY UA-cam! 100% REAL! (OMG HE JUST CAME TO MY HOUSE AT 3 AM!)😱💯
@Susnation532I tried to report your channel
These are the most goofiest crimes of all time
He's going to get made fun of in prison if he's told what he's arrested for.
I like this new style where Charlie acts like I'm talking to him and it's not just him talking to me.
Charlie is the global ranked No. 1 on reporting Silliness. Especially court cases and crimes.
Daily dose of goofiness
@@JoaquinCyberpunkSometimes more than once a day if we’re lucky
Where is the rank?
Turns out the pacifier bandit got caught when a baby hunted him down to tell him that he's not a kid, he's a dwarf. And thats not a pacifier. Its a butt plug.
Charlie is the kind of guy that's "mad" and he's so chill about it
Ngl this crime sounds like a Yakuza sidequest
Charlie: “at my age”
Meanwhile one of my neighbors is 78 and he’s still doing hard farm work. Thankfully he’s never gotten injured nor sick. Nice guy
From what I've seen, nothing is wrong with the Pokeball toy. It's probably parental neglect, and also that probably could've happened with any other spherical object.
Edit: I totally misunderstood it, I didn't realize the ball was open and they were suffocating like that. Either way, my point still stands, I don't think that's a problem with the toy. That's a problem with the parent or guardian that let it happen.
Especially with that 4-month old.
Fr. I can't imagine leaving a baby alone with a new random toy, especially not for 20 minutes!
I know her sisters were with her, but its still a long time with no adult supervision.
My mum used to take me into the bathroom with her when I was that young, and I'd do the same if I had a baby, otherwise I'd be so stressed the whole time.
its both actually
toys like that these days like pokeballs have breathing holes on them so this doesn't happen
"All I did was leave my literal infant alone in his crib with plastic bags, small plastic toys, shards of glass, and rat poison while I took a 45-minute shower. HOW COULD THIS HAVE HAPPENED?!?!"
@@CallumsArmyMy nephew has one, brand new, and it doesn't have any breathing holes in it. These toys aren't meant for infants, so they don't need to be designed for infants. Parents just need to not be neglectful morons.
It would have happened with the food or some other toy sooner or later with that kind of parenting.
You're not supposed to put anything in a babies crib when you are away or they are sleeping. They teach you this before you leave the hospital.
i saw “man charged, babies, sex” in the thumbnail at first and was concerned
it’s obvious the toy wasn’t the problem, it’s always the parents fault.
the toy _did_ have a serious design flaw, to be fair; that’s why similar products have a little hole poked in the bottom (to prevent proper suction from forming). i’ve also always just assumed that the babies got their hands on the pokéballs from an older sibling or something, in which case i don’t think it’s fair to put it all on the parents.
but, obviously, no one can really know for sure how all this happened. babies are strange little creatures who i do not claim to understand ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Man wanted to put the rumour “like stealing candy from a baby” to the test
Stealing pacifiers is freaking goblin behaviour.
4:14 that comment “The guys not yet been caught” was so ominous 😂
Listening to Charlie break down a very goofy crime after demolishing his friends on the court is a top tear experience
Sorry to be that guys but
Tier**
tier
Sorry to be that guy but
guy*
@@shredder5749 He meant his tears from the experience were top
@@i_omor.sorry to be that guy but
I just wanted to be included
Loving these multiple goofy story vids. Keep em up
As a British person, I can confirm that Essex people are a whole 'nother breed.
I imagine the guy who steals pacifiers from babies is feeding them to a pacifier eating monster, but claims he uses it for himself to hide the monster from the world. That would be interesting
The definition of “cartoonishly evil”
The pokeball thing feels… ominous af. Like why were all these parents just conveniently gone for so long? Lemme get my tinfoil hat on and ask do y’all think some of those parents might’ve just wanted to kill their baby and throw the blame at Burger King? I know we’ve all heard of parents doing worse.
Thanks for keeping me up to date on my local news! Harlow,Essex uk. 😅
I remember the pokeball thing. Sometime during/after the promotion, I guess they had extra pokemon toys because they were giving away the toys that would go inside the pokeballs. There was a raffle where you could put your name on a form and put it into a box, and then they'd draw the winning names. My mom entered me, my older brother, my younger brother, and possibly my younger sister. My younger brother ended up winning twice, so he got two sets of pokemon toys (minus the pokeballs). My mom said that he had to share them. She also knew it would be impossible to keep me away from the toys, because I was the one who brought the Pokemon craze into our house a few years earlier after a friend told me about it. I was obsessed and I'm still a little obsessed even in my 30s.
I have never heard anyone call them dummies, either a chew or a pacifier. But this was indeed a weird crime
lets go someone that didn't say ''Charlie never fails''
@@fdrez I did not know that, well thank you for the info
@@fdrezwait the uk i that that was a australian thing bc they use the -ie suffix somuch
@@mightyx5441Australians are just british prisoners
@@mightyx5441where do most australians originate from
Paying literal pocket change for a pacifier: ❌
Stealing from babies: ✅
As someone who lives in Essex I can confirm this is a very normal crime here
As a father myself I’m scared to go outside in fear of the binky burglar
Or the pacifier perpetrator
@@lightninggreninja4676there are so many synonyms for thief beginning with p and yet you went for a word that doesn’t even work. I’m very disappointed in you lightninggreninja4676
@@cerdic6305Hold up how does Perpetrator not work? I mean, the man was stealing and from babies no less and stealing is illegal, right?
@@lightninggreninja4676 yes, but that’s not how the word is used. If someone’s a jewel thief they aren’t a “jewel perpetrator” they’re just a perpetrator or a perpetrator of a jewel theft
out of all the ways to ruin your life, stealing a pacifier from a baby and sucking on it is probably the weirdest way to go
Bro took taking candy from a baby seriously 💀☠️
Now you can accuse anyone who wears a hoodie of doing this crime
It always amazes me, the quality and uniqueness of the stories Charlie comes accross. He truly gives the best, informative coverage avaliable
It always amazes me how hard people dick ride him in the comments section by commenting the same braindead shit like this over and over again.
Literally a story from over 20 years ago
He really took the pacifiers for pleasure lol
On the pokeball incident mentioned later in the video: Imagine the mother’s despair when she found her daughter dead…..the father’s panic before he managed to pry it off of his daughter’s face just in time….jesus Christ man
petition: from now on if you’re gonna crime, make it one of these crimes that forces courts to double check the legal code like a fuckin rule book to tell what crime it even is
i just remembered about a poke ball toy that i had around 8 years ago, i always wondered why there were tiny holes on each part of the ball but i guess that was a direct result of the burger king situation
if I had a nickel for every time Pokémon hospitalized children, I’d have two. Which doesn’t sound like a lot but it’s weird it happened twice
You would have a lot more than that.
The porygon episode. And the pokemon go thing where people were walking into oncoming traffic, and other injuries as a result of not paying attention while walking around
7:40 thats a serious case of natural selection chief
Yeah I agree, 4 months is basically still a newborn and I think some of it is poor parenting, not the pokeball's fault.
The weirdest crime I've seen was Charlie having a actual thumbnail for a video
I Watch youto get my mind off my pain. I have cancer and my pain level is through the roof. I am also a single mom of six year old twin boys. I have zero family. It’s just us. I can’t scream and cry in agony! So I try to focus on videos and go back to my life! So thak you! Your videos and h3 h3 are the only things keeping me going lol
I hope things get better for you
I hope Charlie notice this.
Gyad daym
Hang in there fupa trooper 💜
Wishing you the best.
I love that actually stealing things from a baby is a punishable offense.
Someone who calls a dummy a pacifier making fun of the way people say things is the most hypocritical thing I've heard
can you guys please stop saying '''Charlie never fails'' I think he gets it
Charlie never fails to keep me updated about some of the goofiest goofs to ever be goofed.
“Stealing from a baby is pretty low.” Couldn’t agree more😂
I absolutely loved the quick day update before you got started.
So glad to hear about your amazing basketball game, Charlie
This guy heard how easy it was to steal candy from a baby and decided to kick it up a notch.
Every day, Darwin stares down at us and weeps.
The Burger King situation is just natural selection. How does something like that even happen.
Since you mentioned it several times you can start babies on solids sometime between 4 and 6 months, but it's really only supposed to be for fun, so they should have a normal milk meal first, I genuinely don't understand the parents I've seen feeding their baby, that can barely even keep its head up, fast food let alone a damn kids meal
The silliness just keeps coming
I remember this well. It’s why for the last half of the promotion you couldn’t get a pokeball with a toy.
"The Pacifier Burglar" sounds like a villian on Rugrats or Kids Next Door.
"The Autistic Dummy robber" could cut it close
For context, he tried to claim he was autistic in court and used it as an excuse
My best guess as to why they call pacifiers “dummies” is because “dummy” can be a term for something fake, or a decoy, so crash test dummies for example. Pacifiers are meant to be like nipples for babies, so it could be a dummy nipple. That’s my best guess
I’m a linguist and this is one of the weird, useless facts I know. But the reason Brits call them dummies is because they make the baby stop making noise. Another word for “mute” is “dumb”. The original meaning of “dumb” is someone unable to speak. And the dummy renders the baby dumb. Hence the current word “dumbfounded” still has a similar meaning. But what you say above could well also be the case, there are many words that have multiple reasons for being what they are.
That seems to be it. Only info I could find was referencing an article in a nursing publication from 19foreverago says a doctor referred to pacifiers as "dummy teats".
@@risheeeesh512that's what I assumed
@@risheeeesh512no, it's just a dummy tit
@@risheeeesh512 as a brit, i simply never know that, well the more you know!
Bro really took "easy as taking candy from a baby" to a literal place.
It's wild that hurting a pigs feelings can get you arrested.
Nice to see Charlie covering an event in my area
the pokemon toys are mostly the parents fault. those toys weren't designed with babies in mind. babies aren't even supposed to be eating fast food, when they make their transition to real food it should be stuff like cheerios and yogurt
Charlie is like that cool uncle you see in family parties and tells the most batshit stories
So casually as well
That is a 60s batman villain