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Now that the mall's all decorated for Christmas, little kids will be storming the toy stores looking for that perfect pal.

Last year, Furby was the hot ticket.

A few yules ago, it was the Cabbage Patch Snacktime Kid. Everybody wanted one. But there was just one little problem:

No kidding. The little Cabbage carnivores chowed down on children's hair, chewing all the way to the scalp!

The battery-operated dolls with moving mouths were supposed to "eat" stuff like plastic french fries and other fake food.

But sometimes, they started munchin' on hair.

One mom heard her 3-year-old start to cry while playing with a Cabbage snacker.

"I thought maybe she had stuck her finger in the doll's mouth," said the mom. "When I picked her up, the doll was attached to the back of her head."

Yikes!

The only way some kids could escape the gnashing of the tiny teeth was by cutting their hair … which was swallowed by the little munching machines.

That musta been some huge hairball! Bleccchhhh!

True story: Police in Pennsylvania once questioned a suspect by putting a metal colander on his head and connecting it with wires to a copy machine. The message "He's lying" was put in the copier, and police pressed the copy button each time they thought the guy wasn't telling the truth.

Believing the "lie detector" was working, the suspect confessed to the crime.

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