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Federal Governmet makes it illegal to sell used baby cribs!
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[quote:Deej:MV8xNTQ5OTMyXzI1NTk2NTUwX0FBMjdBOEIy] Yea... the good ol' Federal Government. Jus' keepin' us safe! :chuckle: :hiding: [/quote]
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Starting Tuesday, it became illegal in the U.S. to sell or even donate a crib that fails to meet the toughest crib safety rules in the world.
Newly required safety tests are so stringent that few cribs in American homes — even those that have escaped recall after recall — are sturdy enough to pass them.
As a result, federal regulators recommend that families that can afford to do so should buy new cribs and destroy their old ones.
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The law effectively eliminates the secondhand market for cribs — at least for the near future — because on Tuesday it became illegal to sell a crib that fails to meet the new standards. It will likely take more than a year for the new cribs to find their way to garage sales and auction sites as hand-me-downs.
In addition to checking stores that sell new cribs, Scott Wolfson, a spokesman for the
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, says his agency will be monitoring eBay, craigslist and other sites to make sure older cribs don't get resold
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Now the federal government dictates private transactions between private citizens?
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