- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
Posted by: Zutara Kazulon
when i was little, i had a Barnie toy that talked when someone was near. it had a little sensor thing in it. i always kept it on the floor of my closet. one night, i was laying in my bed by myself. then all of a sudden, it said hi im Barnie wanna play. it scared the heck out of me. it was so freaky
Ok... My son had one of those.... He loved the thing....
One night he was staying at my moms so I could steaqm clean the carpets and stuff without him being up my crunch the whole time.... I picked up the Barney and put it in his room.
That night I heard the weird moving sound it does when it's on and I hear hear "I can't see you peekaboo", and then the one where it says he is scared of the dark... Then peek a boo again..... I kinda got freaked out.
So I went down the hall and the Barney was laying on the ground on it's side and it said peek a boo I see you.....
I picked it up and threw it in it's box in his closet and pushed the bed up against it...
When my son came home the next day he asked where Barney was....
I was like..uh in the closet....
My son cried and kept saying barney was scared of the dark.
He was hysterical, saying Barney was gonna be mad at him and stuff.
I moved the bed. And he got him out of the closet....
He was shaking him and he wouldn't turn on.
So I turned him over and moved the velcro that covered his butt and used the screwdriver to open it....
No friggin batteries man.....
At first I thought...maybe they fell out, but impossible becuase he was closed up and and screwed in tight...
So then I got to wondering...
Did I ever put batteries in it for him....?
He had it for like 6 months and I don't ever remember putting batteries in it....not once...
And also when I put batteries in the thing he wouldn't work anymore.
I asked my mom about it and she said that he never brought Barney over to her house...
She did say however that Austin talked about him like he was a living thing and that Barney told him special secrets....
Kinda weird but aroud this time my son was acting very bad...
He would go into psychotic rages and throw things and curse(he was 2)...
I would find scissors and sharp stuff in his room and he would have cut up his stuffed animals in bizzarre ways....
So i decided that Barney had to go....
I gave him to a kid that lived down the street.
He was 5 I think and loved Barney.
Like 2 months later he stabbed his sister in the neck while she was sleeping(with safety scissors).
She lived, but the kid got put in red river....
And oddly enoguh my son returned to the normal sweet little boy he had been Pre Barney....
So I dunno what was up with it...
Maybe it was just some freak thing....
But I can say after I got rid of the Barney my son changed....
He also refused to watch Barney or have anything Barney related in his room...
One day he just came to me and whispered in my ear "Glad Barney gone mama, he scared me sometimes..."