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> Why can't you [play lawn darts] in your country? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawn_darts#Safety_and_bans_in_the_U.S._and_Canada https://en.wikipedia.org/wik

• grawprog 5y ago
  To be fair, you can still play lawn darts if you have a set. I remember playing with a set of lawn darts, like the real ones with the spikes, with my cousins back in like 2004-2005, nobody came to arrest us.
  • WorldMaker 5y ago
    Also Nerf has multiple options for lawn darts on sale that don't have spikes. And no one ever banned horseshoes or bocci which are also the exact same game/sport. They just stopped selling the one particular variant, and not really because they were "banned", but because of the market realities of the low margins for selling only a somewhat fun toy versus the litigation costs and settlement costs from its injuries. If they thought there was big enough demand they'd slap a ton of warnings on it, include an arbitration clause in a jurisdiction friendly to them, and put it back in stores in a heartbeat.
    • HWR_14 5y ago
      You're mostly true. However, they slapped the warnings on the box in 1970. In 1989 they were banned, because kids (like, under 11) kept killing themselves with them.
• munk-a 5y ago
  I imagine it'd be easier to build an indoor simulated lawn then trying to do that on a ship. And, well before the point where a gigantic ocean liner becomes economical - you could always get a custom set of lawn darts crafted for you by any sort of metal working shop or factory. Heck, you can probably get them on Etsy from China.