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Never heard about Lawn Darts. > In the previous eight years, 6,100 people had been sent to the emergency room due to lawn darts in the U.S. Out of that total,
by slezyr 7y ago
Never heard about Lawn Darts.
> In the previous eight years, 6,100 people had been sent to the emergency room due to lawn darts in the U.S. Out of that total, 81% were 15 or younger, and half of them were 10 or younger. On the week the commission voted to ban the product, an 11-year-old girl in Tennessee was hit by a lawn dart and sent into a coma.
From wikipedia. It's a bad example.
- femto113 7y agoIt once was the canonical X in "we banned X why haven't we banned Y" (where Y is something like "assault rifles" or "peanuts") but perhaps only for people of a certain age. A more recent example: the Boeing 737 MAX was grounded after two accidents out of a few hundred thousand flights.