'Tanning Mom' Action Figure: Funny or Sad?
SodaHead Living
2012/05/09 21:00:00
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If the now-infamous "tanning mom" really took her 6-year-old daughter into a tanning booth, causing skin burns, it's not really that funny. But it's hard not to laugh at this action figure. HeroBuilders.com, the custom doll retailer that created the Michaele Salahi and Anthony Weiner dolls, is selling a "tanorexic" action figure based on "tanning mom" Patricia Krentcil. "We thought it was a funny thing to do," said the novelty company's president, Emil Vicale, according to The Associated Press. The orange-faced doll costs $29.95.
Krentcil, who faces a second-degree child endangerment charge, pleaded not guilty in Newark Municipal Court last week; she's now free on a $2,500 cash bond. Police told The Nutley Sun newspaper they were called to the child's school April 24 because the kindergartner was in pain from a "pretty severe sunburn," and that she was complaining of itching, saying she had been to a tanning salon with her mom. Krentcil says her little girl got a sunburn from being outside on a warm day. She also says she's innocent and her critics are "jealous."
"I'm innocent and it's proven... I would never -- never -- put my daughter in a tanning booth..." Krentcil told TMZ. "Any mother that makes an accusation about me is not a mother, because I'm a great mother and I would never do that to my child." When asked by TMZ if she's the target of a witch hunt, Krentcil replied: "Yes. Yes. There's somebody out there on my whole life that doesn't like me because they're jealous, they're fat and they're ugly."
The owner of City Tropics Salon in Nutley said employees who were there that day told him the girl remained outside with her father and brother and didn't go into the tanning booth while Krentcil was inside, CBS and The Associated Press reported. New Jersey state law prohibits anyone under 14 from using a tanning salon.
"I'm innocent and it's proven... I would never -- never -- put my daughter in a tanning booth..." Krentcil told TMZ. "Any mother that makes an accusation about me is not a mother, because I'm a great mother and I would never do that to my child." When asked by TMZ if she's the target of a witch hunt, Krentcil replied: "Yes. Yes. There's somebody out there on my whole life that doesn't like me because they're jealous, they're fat and they're ugly."
The owner of City Tropics Salon in Nutley said employees who were there that day told him the girl remained outside with her father and brother and didn't go into the tanning booth while Krentcil was inside, CBS and The Associated Press reported. New Jersey state law prohibits anyone under 14 from using a tanning salon.
Top Opinion
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Jimbo 2012/05/10 00:05:36
She could have a trailer and it would open and inside you would see her tanning bed and whatever else, like in Malibu Barbi's house. A working shower.
And then you could have a little medical playhouse and there would be little xrays with a lite up think to clip them to and chemo machines...No, this doll is fabulous.
They could have a classroom playhouse that opens up and insdie are several children and this woman's daughter and they are all making fun of her for having, "Leatherface," for a mother.
How can anyone not find this doll funny!
She is as funny as the near sighted snake that raped a rope!
As Ralph Kramden (Jackie Gleason) would say to Alice (Audrey Meadows): "Oh, you're a riot Alice, a real riot!"
Thanku.
I'll sleep with visions of sugar plums 2nite.
Look, he thinks he's people.
I know people, some very young, who got cancer and died, doing there jobs, that is sad. When someone is, purposely sucking in cancer like they are starving to death for it, and it finds a home in them, I do not see how that is sad.
But for the grace of God, there go I.
I feel sorry for her daughter.