The thick eyes glaze over and it chews, it chews

Fragment in hostile commodity history:   



"GRIFFITH, Ind., Dec. 27— A battery-operated Cabbage Patch doll that can chew had to be taken apart piece by piece this week when it munched a 7-year-old girl's hair up to her scalp and would not let go."


They had no off-switch, no way to go in reverse.  The pure drive to eat beyond nourishment, gnawing blankly at her owner's head.