Voodoogochimon
New Toy Report
VoodoogochimonTM 3000 (patent pending)
The world of Voodoo in a small easy to use electronic form, hex and burn your enemies, friends, family and even select domesticated animals (see instruction booklet for full list of compatible animals) with the new VoodoogochimonTM 3000......
Frank put the report back on the desk.
“You’ve got to be kidding me, anyway why the hell do we have a Voodoogochimon trademark already? It hasn’t been approved yet and I haven’t heard of it.”
Frank’s Co-worker Sue, took a long deliberate sip of water.
“Well…… we released the VoodoogochimonTM about 5 years ago.”
“Hang on there Sue, what do you mean ‘We’? And you’ve only been on my team for just under 4 years.”
Sue took another, incredibly long sip of water.
“Well…..”
Frank suddenly interrupted her.
“I’m not going to like this am I?”
“No, not at all. You see my toy development team was falling way behind was those cute little electronic pets that flooded the market oh so many years ago and we we’re just about to get fired when one of the guys came up with this electronic voodoo idea, we released it in Japan first - they love all sorts of weird toys and we began raking in the cash.”
“So why haven’t I heard of it before Sue? What went wrong?”
“Our toy was too good Frank.”
“How good.”
“It worked.”
Frank almost fainted.
“You mean you made a little electronic voodoo toy that kids could actually use to harm people.”
“More than just harm Frank, they killed people.”
Frank was leaning on his elbows, running his fingers roughly through his hair.
“You gave toys to kids that could kill people”
“No, I mean yes, NO! Well kind of.”
Sue began rushing,
“We didn’t have time to build a toy prototype from scratch so we stole existing electronic pets and converted them till we got one to work and then sent it down the production line. But they weren’t able to kill people just do things like make their feet hot or fingers cold, give them the shivers or pin pricks on their limbs, just little things.”
Frank was looking paler by the second.
“So….so how did these kids kill people.”
“Well…like any fad it wore off and the kids stopped using them but there was a glitch, you see in the normal electronic pets you had to feed your pet or it would die, we kind of forgot about that.”
“You’re a monster, a real monster.”
Frank began to pound his chest.
“Call an ambulance I think I’m having a heart attack”
Sue slid the toy proposal and a pen in front of Frank.
“Just sign the forms Frank and we can both be rich.”
“I need an ambulance Sue please.”
Sue pulled a small oval device from her purse and showed it to Frank
“Sign it and I’ll make it stop”
Frank could only stare at his cartoon self clutching at its chest, he sighed and slumped forward.
“Shit”
Sue turned the device over and hit the reset button.