13 year old putting lights in mouth

[Munchilluminate]

….unlikely isn’t it?

Yet, Dunelm have put a warning on all their string lights stating ‘not for use by children under 14 due to small parts which may constitute a choking hazard’

I’m totally bemused by this. Can anyone make this make sense?

A typo?

Ha - I feel like this must be a typo!!

Nope. I bought two separate sets of string lights (different designs and packaging) and they both state this.

And the standard line is ‘not for children under 3’

Your 13 year old child is putting fairy lights in their mouth?

That's what your title says.

My brother swallowed two marbles at 17.

The first, he was just absent mindedly playing with and put in his mouth. The second, he was demonstrating how he'd managed to eat the first.

People can be idiots, no matter the age.

That warning comes as a result of a suit somewhere, someone got sued, somewhere.. someone did it... this is the get out of jail free card!

No it doesn't.

The OP is saying that the warning states the lights are not for under 14 year olds, therefore 13 year olds must be putting them in their mouths. The OP did not say that it was their own 13 year old child.

If they are string lights would the choking hazard be from potentially putting them around their necks?

I would not expect this from a child any older than 4 unless they are an absolute idiot or had been dared to do it (by another absolute idiot).

@BalladOfBarryAndFreda

So it does!

Sorry OP - I clearly wasn't concentrating.

Very common in children and adults with pica. Also not unheard of in children/adults with autism, learning disability, prader-wii syndrome, and other conditions that co-occur with pica or trigger self soothing/stimulatory behaviours.

Plenty of adults are uniformed idiots though, as I'm sure you know...

Are the stupid kids who were eating laundry pods for fun old enough to have kids yet?

Sounds daft but some younger Rammstein/Till Lindemann fans (or even older fans) may try and copy Till as one of his acts on stage is having lights in his mouth as he sings.