In the largest recall of the industry, the Chicago-based 3D ultrasound studio, First Peek Ultrasound, has declared a nationwide recall of its 3D ultrasounds.
First Peek Ultrasound will recall over a thousand 3D ultrasounds, the company’s largest recall, to address problems with certain 3D ultrasounds that may be too cute to publish.
The owner of First Peek Ultrasound was found leaving the ultrasound studio, crossing Lake Street in Oak Park, IL, wearing dark sunglasses and a stethoscope to get away from the media. When pressed for a comment, he said:
It was never our intention, when we first started this company in 2008, that pregnant moms would be sending their baby’s 3D ultrasound images en masse over the latest gadgets and technology, such as Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, and sites like baby-gaga.com and The Bump. We thought moms would just quietly show their baby’s pictures to other moms at a baby shower. Now, you can’t visit a pregnant woman’s Facebook page without being barraged by her 3D ultrasound pictures.
Experts in the field have stated that these “too-cute-to-publish” 3D ultrasound pictures and 4D ultrasound videos would cause internet accelerators (folks who do nothing but check out blogs and post the articles on other blogs) to get stuck and lead to a crash of the world wide web.
“The cuteness factor of the internet could accelerate out of control, leading to envy, malicious posting, and other bad things,” the AAIAAIA said (American Association of Internet Advisors And Industry Association).
The recall will involve popular ultrasound packages such as the First Peek Package, the top-selling 3D ultrasound package in the Chicago area, and the Gender Check, the best-selling 2D-3D hybrid, and the Premium Package, the “Lexus” of 3D ultrasound packages.
First Peek said it was still working with officials to find a remedy to fix the problem and said customers of First Peek Ultrasound could be notified about the recall as early as next week. First Peek spokesman, Sarah, said that until the company finds a fix, owners should take out the removable 3D ultrasound images from the main profile pictures of their Facebook page and not replace it.
AAAIAAIA (Another American Association of Internet Advisors And Industry Association) said that it had received reports of 103 incidents in which the internet may have become stuck on the Facebook pages involved. It was unclear how many led to crashes, but the inquiry was prompted by a highspeed crash in Chicago of a First Peek Ultrasound’s 3D ultrasound image being forwarded out of control on a personal mommyblog. As the cute baby pictures hit speeds exceeding 8000 kilobytes per second, the pregnant mom made a frantic 404 call and said the internet was stuck and they couldn’t stop the cuteness. The website was immediately pulled off the internet with a grinding halt.
“This is an urgent matter!” First Peek’s safety and recall manager, Josef, said in a statement. “For everyone’s sake, we strongly urge owners of these 3D ultrasound images to remove their cute baby pictures that could lead to unintended internet acceleration.”
3D ultrasound image that caused the first crash in Skokie:
3D ultrasound that led to the high-speed crash in dowtown Chicago:
Another less noteworthy recall that happened to involve Toyota, which was eerily similar to First Peek Ultrasound’s recall.
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