Sure, it seemed like after the years of hard drinking, petty crime, and run-ins with the law, Elmo had cleaned up his act -- but a shocking report out of Tampa Bay, Florida, says otherwise.
A two-year-old"s life has been turned upside down by vicious talk coming from his favorite toy, Elmo Knows Your Name. It seems that after a recent battery change, the PC-interfacing doll began spouting death threats of "kill James" at the toddler, with seemingly no explanation as to how the new phrase entered his vocabulary.
The situation came to a head when the boy"s mother heard her son repeating the twisted suggestion. Of course, what she didn"t hear was Elmo"s other threat: that he would "cut anyone who crossed [him] end-to-end with a Bowie knife," and, "dine on their internal organs."
Fisher Price says it has a team of experts working on the case, and enough tranquilizer darts to put Elmo down, "For good."