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Alarms sounded that a magnetic toy was dangerous. The federal agency charged with toy safety didn't act. Neither did the toy's manufacturer. Not until a boy died.

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TechnologyExpert
May 5, 2007, 9:36 p.m.
When the plastic building sets broke, she told the operator, they shed powerful magnets inside her northern Indiana preschool. Grigsby didn't see the loose magnets, not much bigger than baby aspirin.
But one of her 5-year-old students did. He found some and swallowed them. The extraordinarily strong magnets connected in the boy's digestive tract, squeezed the folds of his intestines and tore holes through his bowels. Only emergency surgery saved his life.
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But not the life of Kenny Sweet Jr.
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monte-g
May 5, 2007, 10:10 p.m.
Wow....How horrible