To think that toys that don't have an off switch should be banned?

[gingerpickles]

I've just been woken up by one of ds's toys going off. A Bob the builder truck thing that is randomly singing away.
Now it was very loud, loud enough to wake me in the next room (thankfully it didn't wake DS). I got up and firstly thought that it would be quite easy to find and then simply turn off.
How wrong I was, I eventually found it in the bottom of a large toy box and then found there wasn't an off switch! Even worse the battery cover needs a screwdriver.
I was then stuck thinking where I could possibly put it so it doesn't wake me again, it was easier to put it outside in the car than find the right screwdriver and listen to it in the meantime.

Because of this I will never accept another loud toy that doesn't have a simple off switch, and for parents everywhere I firmly believe they should be banned. AIBU?

You are totally not being unreasonable.
I help out at a playgroup type thing and there are a few there. Nothing worse than putting all the toys into their containers and into the cupboard and then having something start making a noise all by itself!

We had premature twins that were on two hour feeds. As they got a little older one of us would take the early hours feeds for both and let the other sleep longer. One night I got up went to the loo and found a small ELC plastic mirror toy spluttering in a full hand basin of water. It seemed really sinister as it hadn't been there before I went to bed. My DH said he got up to feed and change the babies and he could hear the toy singing in the living room ( we lived in a flat). He couldn't find the off button, so he buried it in the bin but claimed he could still hear it. He fished it out of the bin and in his zombie like lack of sleep state he decided to drown it. Bloody thing was still trying to pump out nursery rhymes under water.

My dts got a toy for xmas, we didn't think it turned off and its so fucking loud i was tempted to bin it. Found the instructions yesterday, indeed it does have an off button

YANBU
DD has a singing giraffe which switches off when it damn well pleases, there is definitely no off button.
Why?!
I think these things are designed by people who hate parents and want to punish them.

We’ve also got a singing giraffe! So easy to set it off too.