Costco Recalls Dirty Underwear Punching Bag

The Consumerist ^ | May 24, 2007

[gondramB]

Costco is not cool with underpants-filled punching bags. From their website (emphasis ours):

We are issuing this voluntary recall notice for the TKO Sports Heavy Punching Bag with Speed Bag Combination, manufactured by TKO Sports, of Houston, TX. We have learned that the fill material in the heavy punching bag does not meet our high quality standards.

[gondramB]

I thought this was bad idea when I thought you had to fill the punching bag with your own dirty underwear. Then I realized it came prefilled with dirty women's uderwear.

This raises several questions.... Where did they get tons of dirty women's underwear? How on earth did they decide to use it like this? and finally...

Wouldn't it be worth a lot more on EBay?

[Always Right]

Wouldn't it be worth a lot more on EBay?

Yep, could be a real gold mine.

[pointsal]

Check the DNA.... SOLVE A CRIME

[SpaceBar]

Where did they get tons of dirty women's underwear?

A Chinese prison?

[MrEdd]

So the consumers got all pissy about it? That stinks.

[jdm]

uderwear.

Now, *that* would be some crazy fashion there.

[Alouette]

Looks like the underpants gnomes have finally found Phase 2

[Duke Nukum]

A Chinese prison?

Or the sex slave trade.

I wonder who actually owns this company?

[Army Air Corps]

This man is being sought for questioning


as are these men

[festus]

Are we sure the consumer didn’t do this as a prank, to get publicity, or to sue about ?

[jdm]

You sure had that slide all cued up and ready for this post! :O)

[stboz]

A Chinese prison?

All our dirty underwear are belong to you!

[Always Right]

Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Punching bag filled with underwear

Joe Heckel of Cincinnati, Ohio peeked inside a TKO brand heavy punching bag he had purchased and was surprised to find it stuffed with underwear, some of it “used.” From WLWT Cincinnati:

“(There were) bras, thongs and bathing suits. We could not believe there were clothes inside instead of sand,” he said.

Heckel said the smell was “bad, real bad...”

Heckel said Thursday that the representative (from TKO) told him that the underwear in the bag was a “quality problem” that they were dealing with, and that the people who had made the decision to put underwear in the bags had been fired.

[FReepaholic]

...Then I realized it came prefilled with dirty women's uderwear....

Dirty women's underwear or women's dirty underwear?

[jdm]

Heckel said Thursday that the representative (from TKO) told him that the underwear in the bag was a “quality problem” that they were dealing with, and that the people who had made the decision to put underwear in the bags had been fired.

Is the quality problem related to lack of sand, or that the clothes should have been washed first?

[gondramB]

>>Looks like the underpants gnomes have finally found Phase 2<<

That, my friend is the post of the day.

[gondramB]

>>uderwear.<

Hey, when I make a typo I don’t mess around. :)

[jdm]

Dirty women's underwear or women's dirty underwear?

Probably a bit of both, I would wager.

[gondramB]

Oh no, the thread has been exiled to Bloggers and personal... I promise I don’t own the Consumerist. :)

[jdm]

I wonder who actually owns this company?

Not Britney Spears, for sure.