Hello Freedomphiles!  Remember those days when we all loved OJ Simpson?  He was the goofy-grinned teddy bear hurdling luggage at the airport or rolling out of control down stairs in a wheelchair, and then suddenly he was the man who made human Pez dispensers out of his ex-wife and her boyfriend.

Why do our heroes fall?  Why must we live with this crushing disappointment?  Why must our most precious assumptions constantly be challenged and shattered?

Add one more fallen idol to the list.  FoxNews reports:

The Bowman family, of Lithia, Fla., said an Elmo doll belonging to their 2-year-old son, James, began to spout death threats towards him after they changed its batteries, TBO.com reports.

The Elmo Knows Your Name Doll started saying "Kill James!" in a sing-song voice, the site reports.

"It's not something that really you would think would ever come out of a toy," James' mother, Melissa, told the site. "But once I heard, I was just kind of distraught."

Yeah?  Wait till you find Elmo in your son's room in the middle of the night, laughing in high-pitched homicidal glee with a butcher knife at James' throat - imagine how distraught you'll be then, lady.

Take a gander for youself: