Pinata stuffed with US soldiers now gone

Xeni Jardin 12:48 pm Wed Dec 20, 2006

UPDATE:

The profoundly tasteless US-soldier-stuffed-piñata blogged yesterday on BoingBoing is no longer offered for sale at the Oriental Trading Company website.

Sorry, you'll just have to go find supplies for your jihadi slumber party somewhere else.

Link (Thanks, Breitbart!)

Reader comments:

Appalled anonymous reader says,

So it's tasteless to beat the piñata if it's soldiers, but totally ok if it's a donkey, or a butterfly?

Outraged blogger bbum screams,

Why no horror at the reindeer pinata, the (not nearly as realistic) fighter jet pinata, the Dora pinata, or the space shuttle pinata?

BB reader Dave K. demands equal rights for piñatas:

How about this video I found on YouTube about a guy trying to extract revenge on the piñata who killed his father? Kind of… Lynchian. Or something. Link.

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