A toy-saftey video that’s actually amusing

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Here’s an animated, musical product-safety video from Consumers Union, the nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports, and it’s pretty darn funny. It centers around overworked government inspectors who are losing their noble fight to stop dangerous toys from being imported into the U.S. Some lyrics: “Now, so many products are streaming through the door/Our scientific method is to drop them on the floor.” Especially cute are the names of the testers (“Axel” checks cars, “Elmer” tests glue—by sniffing it!—and a

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