Kmart walkie-talkies: Mum shocked after hearing a man moaning and talking about ‘sausages’ through the popular children’s toy
A mother-of-two has raised the alarm about seemingly harmless children’s toys after she heard a man moaning and making sexual innuendos on her children’s Kmart walkie-talkies.
The mother, from Christchurch, New Zealand, bought the popular toy as a Christmas present for her sons.
One night while preparing dinner, she heard strange noises coming from the radios in her sons’ bedroom on the other side of the house.
When she entered the room, she heard a man moaning and cintense comments that got worse the longer she listened.
‘Things like: “Do you like sausages? I’ll come over, you’ll cook my sausage and I’ll let you eat it. Mmmm, I’ll come and get you. I’ll come to you now”. It took a few minutes,” she told the newspaper NZ Herald.
The distressed mother tried to turn off the walkie-talkies, but the toy’s power button remained permanently in the ‘on’ position.
“I was just running around the house looking for a screwdriver so I could take the batteries out, and of course the kids heard,” she said.
The concerned mother rushed to lock her doors because the packaging of the walkie-talkies states that they can only pick up voices within a range of 300 meters.
A New Zealand mother has heard moaning and sexual innuendos on her sons’ Kmart walkie-talkies
The mother bought the toy at Kmart (pictured) and quickly contacted customer service
She reported the incident to the police, who assured her that a strong radio frequency from much further away was able to communicate with the toy.
Police added that her children would not be able to answer the stranger if he was broadcasting from far away and suggested she change the frequency.
However, the mother noted that the walkie-talkies are set to one radio channel and cannot be changed.
She alerted Kmart to the incident and was referred to a second level of complaints services, where she spoke to a man who was ‘shocked and shaken’.
An official complaint was filed against the toy.
She shared her experiences online and warned parents to be aware that a stranger could talk directly to their children through the radio toys.
“As a toy marketed to children, there should be some sort of warning on it. Especially when there is a possibility of something like this happening,” she wrote.
Daily Mail Australia has contacted Kmart’s parent company Wesfarmers for comment.