Shirt.Woot

Talk about a ruined childhood.

Let's see Kit-Kat Hershey's bar, Twix, Reese's, Toostie Roll, and Tootsie pop, smarties, peppermint, standard lolipop, apple, candy corn, hmm I just can't figure out the fish hook and the nails ones.

All this time I've been told you'll lose teeth by eating too much candy. I'll need this for my next dentist appointment to prove him wrong.

Wait a minute, it glows in the dark too?!!!

Must buy once my next paycheck hits.

The Hallowoot continues! In for one again. How van I resist, every parent's worst nightmare, right here, on a shirt!

Now I crave a Reese's!

Hallowoot! Glow in the dark! It's my favorite time of year! I should go buy candy for the kids in my neighborhood! And keep my scissors and razor blades far far away from the bucket of candy!

. . . and get off my lawn!

Lol, I love the one staple in the candy corn.

Gotta be honest, this shirt bothers me

Wait, no one else thinks this is messed up? No one remembers the days when this stuff ACTUALLY HAPPENED and hurt kids? No one knows this is the reason parents are warned to only let their kids have sealed candy from recognizable brands?

I know you were trying to be edgy, Shirt Woot, but this is just in bad taste. I think I'm out for good now.

I find this shirt in poor taste. I like Woots humor but this goes a bit overboard.

jellebean wrote:Gotta be honest, this shirt bothers me

Yep, me too. Just a little too close to poison-laced Tylenol for my liking.

oh, shirt.woot!, you and your road maps to disasters *shakes head* *turns page in Anarchist Cookbook*

jadis4742 wrote:Wait, no one else thinks this is messed up? No one remembers the days when this stuff ACTUALLY HAPPENED and hurt kids? No one knows why this is the reason parents are warned to only let their kids have sealed candy from recognizable brands?

I know you were trying to be edgy, Shirt Woot, but this is just in bad taste. I think I'm out for good now.

I think you'd better check your facts there. I don't think there is a single confirmed case of tainted candy being distributed at random to strangers.

Oh look. It's also a tote bag . Just as creepy.

Woot I think this shirt should go the way of your two for Tuesday...outta here!

Incredibly poor taste!

lete wrote:I think you'd better check your facts there. I don't think there is a single confirmed case of tainted candy being distributed at random to strangers.

When I was a kid, I got stuck with something like a sewing pin hidden in a piece of laffy taffy. I confirm it.

Thanks for reminding me of the year I got a tetanus instead of the rest of my candy...

In reference to the post of no documented cases....there have been many. Razor blades in apples, etc.

joetechco wrote:Incredibly poor taste!

I have to agree...I have been buying from Woot for 8 years and have never had an issue with what they've put up for sale until this shirt

lete wrote:I think you'd better check your facts there. I don't think there is a single confirmed case of tainted candy being distributed at random to strangers.

Here you go, a mom just found a needle in her kid's candy just last year.

http://www.newschannel5.com/story/15929511/montgomery-county-mom-says-needle-found-in-candy

And there are many documented cases of posioned candy, but you're right -- the culprits were mostly family members killing their kids for insurance.

In any case, this shirt isn't edgy, it's disturbing, and NOT something any responsible company should be encouraging..

What's the point if you can see the hidden items anyway?

jadis4742 wrote:Here you go, a mom just found a needle in her kid's candy just last year.

http://www.newschannel5.com/story/15929511/montgomery-county-mom-says-needle-found-in-candy

And there are many documented cases of posioned candy, but you're right -- the culprits were mostly family members killing their kids for insurance.

In any case, this shirt isn't edgy, it's disturbing, and NOT something any responsible company should be encouraging..

Perhaps there is new management in at Woot? I sometimes buy Woot shirts for my kids but I don't know anymore with this poor taste in a shirt selection

Nothing like a little morbid humor about killing children to brighten the mood, right?

What...? Count me among the disturbed. Even if many of the stories about "tainted" candy are hoaxes, or if most that are real are pranks done by family members, the fact that it's happened ever (http://www.snopes.com/horrors/mayhem/needles.asp) makes this a disturbing in a bad way subject to put on a t-shirt. :/

This shirt is why I'll be running a metal detector over my kid's Halloween candy before letting them dig in.

emerson42 wrote:Nothing like a little morbid humor about killing children to brighten the mood, right?

Perhaps like a salmonella scare they can pull the product from the shelves to save their reputation

maahes0 wrote:Let's see Kit-Kat Hershey's bar, Twix, Reese's, Toostie Roll, and Tootsie pop, smarties, peppermint, standard lolipop, apple, candy corn, hmm I just can't figure out the fish hook and the nails ones.

Smarties? Did you mean Rockets?

jellebean wrote:Gotta be honest, this shirt bothers me

Me too, this is not a funny, cool, nor clever t-shirt. #woot #shirt #fail.

I believe Woot owes their loyal customers (I have just over 100 purchases but think that is low) an email of apology for poor judgement.

lete wrote:I think you'd better check your facts there. I don't think there is a single confirmed case of tainted candy being distributed at random to strangers.

99% of them turned out to be hoaxes or family members doing it, but in 2000 James Joseph Smith of Minneapolis got charged and went to jail for putting pins in Halloween candy and distributing them.

That tote works way better than the shirt. Why didn't they make the tote glow in the dark too?!

Think of the lawsuit if a child gets candy with something in it and they trace it back to a woot shirt. The attorneys can say their client got the idea from a t shirt he bought off Woot.

Not cool, not funny. You guys crossed the line with this one. I hope some heads role for the decision to put up this shirt.

oh the irony of that tooth in the lollipop.

i have to wonder if this has mild educational value in teaching the horrors of candybinging on halloween.

...of course, there's the question of how an apple can possibly be bad for you. candied-apples...perhaps?

Yeah, this shirt is really terrible. Injuring children is not funny.

See, it's funny because it's not really the serious social scourge that the media once made it out to be. There might be a few examples of this happening, but they are extremely rare, and people who are actually afraid of their kid getting a razor in their candy are worried about all of the wrong things in life. Worry about your kid riding in your car, or eating fatty foods, or crossing the street, or getting hit by lightning... they're all MUCH bigger concerns. I don't find this shirt in poor taste at all, at least not in a mean-spirited way. It's silly and clever. I cannot believe that people still buy into this urban myth that tampered candy from strangers is a serious and real threat. It just goes to show that fantastic stories are far more powerful than facts on the social psyche.

skatimmy737 wrote:What's the point if you can see the hidden items anyway?

I believe the shirt is depicting an X-Ray image of the candy.

I vaguely remember talk of X-Rays being offered for Halloween candy years ago, but I don't remember for sure if that was real or some TV show I heard it mentioned on. Seems like it would be expensive... unless it was like an airport security conveyor.