Amazon Was Peddling “Enjoy Cocaine” Baby Clothes

Dent7 years ago

There’s a reason Jeff Bezos is the richest man in the world. That bald headed, Dr. Evil looking mofo will do anything to make a buck. Think about it. What can’t you get on Amazon? The range of products offered is astounding. You can pick up a copy of the Bible AND a fleshlight in the same purchase. Name one other store where that’s possible. You can’t.

The world’s largest online retailer has hundreds of millions of products in their catalog. With those numbers, some stuff is bound to slip through the cracks. But that didn’t stop people from getting outraged when a line of unsavory clothing was found in their UK site’s baby section.

From Daily Mail:

Children’s clothes emblazoned with the words ‘enjoy cocaine’ were removed from Amazon following a customer backlash.

The offensive range of bibs, t-shirts and babygrows was being sold by an independent retailer, believed to be based in Estonia.

The design of the garments imitates the distinctive ‘Enjoy Coke’ logo used by Coca-Cola, replicating the colour and font.

However the solid white curved line below the text has been replaced with a white ‘powder’ version.

Customer Stefanie Smith was left outraged when she discovered the clothes while browsing the website yesterday.

She shared a screenshot of one baby bib design on the Amazon UK Facebook page with the caption: ‘Admittedly, yes I was looking for a Libertines T-shirt but what the actual hell is this? WTF.’

Dammit. Now what am I supposed to get my nephew for his christening? Hilarious graphic t-shirts are a concept as old as the printing press itself. You can’t tell me that Ben Franklin wasn’t romping around in an “I’m with stupid” shirt whenever he graced Thomas Jefferson with his presence.

The question here isn’t why Amazon would let one of their merchants sell these things. Obviously, it was just an oversight. The real question is what kind of maniac is buying these shirts for children and how can I meet them? Are they just all grandmothers with bad eyesight? Or are there actual people who read the shirt, thought it was funny, and then decided it would be great for their kid? I never really did get British humor. Ever try to watch one of their TV shows? What is that?

Amazon may want to start paying a little more attention. At this very second, this same seller has tons of other inappropriate baby shirts listed like this one that just says hooker (some double entendre about rugby, I think? Damn British humor). If someone was able to sneak these on the shelves, who knows what will be next. Perhaps our own “Legalize Cocaine” tank tops will make the cut one day. Until then you’ll just have to buy those suckers here..

[via Daily Mail]

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