A toy company has been fined more than £5,000 after a nine-year-old boy was nearly blinded by an exploding joke pen.

Police were called to Mattel Inc.’s corporate headquarters in El Segundo on Tuesday after a plastic bottle exploded. A security guard at the toy company’s design studio at 2031 East Mariposa ...

Cops say the teen used info from the internet to create the exploding pen. Oct. 21, 2010— -- A North Carolina teenager, his brother and his mother have been charged with several felony counts ...