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80s lawn darts seemed pretty bad looking back with sharp metal tips.
by SG- 3y ago
80s lawn darts seemed pretty bad looking back with sharp metal tips.
- kcmastrpc 3y agoI was going to chime in with the lawn darts as well, we had them when I was growing up but luckily no one was impaled.
- rolph 3y agothat would be in line with my crossbow [7th bday]
- Aeolun 3y agoNormal darts have sharp metal tips. Why are the lawn darts considered especially unsafe?
- Philadelphia 3y agoThey’re substantially larger and heavier
- Forge36 3y agoSize and weight. Combined with "thrown haphazardly into the air". With a normal dart you poke an eye out. With lawn darts you poke a heart out. Also many darts for kids these days are plastic.
- blacksmith_tb 3y agoI would expect most of the injuries from the forbidden sharp lawn darts to have been to the head and/or shoulders? To 'poke a heart out' you'd need the victim to be laying down on the ground, which kids do obviously do, but presumably a little less when they see things raining down from the sky.
- aerostable_slug 3y agoIt all depends on how you throw them — they can come in at a pretty shallow angle.
- ghaff 3y agoI'm not sure traditional metal-tipped pub darts are a particularly great example of an ideal kid's toy either. Safety concerns can sometimes seem over the top but, if you look at "dangerous toys" lists with a modern eye, they mostly do seem like things it makes sense to pass on.
- ElongatedMusket 3y agoThey're a foot long, and the metal tip is 1/4 inch thick. Also, I think you're supposed to play with everyone standing on the same side and throw the darts at a circle on the ground. However when I was a kid, everyone I knew played by standing on opposite sides of each other and dodged the darts as they fell from the sky...
- ghaff 3y agoThey're a toy that my parents somehow managed, probably quite deliberately, to not buy us as kids. It's a textbook example of something that is perfectly safe if used as directed but which practically calls out for kids (and drunk adults) to not use safely.
- buildsjets 3y agoIt’s difficult for a child to throw a normal dart through a friend’s skull. But this has happened with lawn darts.
- Ekaros 3y agoWith normal darts you kinda need to try to intentionally harm someone. Not that kids won't do that. But still the sector of risk is smaller. Big much less controllable darts on other hand might land in general area near someone.
- the_third_wave 3y agoTo give normal darts the damage potential lawn darts have you have to: 1: cut off part of the plastic tail so that the whole dart fits in a ~1m piece of PVC electrical conduit 2: wrap electricians tape around the brass front so it fits snugly but not too tight in the same piece of pipe 3: put the dart, point forward, into the pipe 4: connect the back (or "breach") part of the pipe to a large foot-operated bellows as used to blow up dinghies. 5: aim the pipe at a brick wall 6: jump, or have you accomplice jump on the bellows 7: walk towards the wall and extract the dart from a brick into which it has embedded itself about 1.5 cm. Source: personal experience. We did not have lawn darts. We did not need them. Even at that age we were smart enough not to aim the pipe upwards to see how high the dart would go in the knowledge that it would eventually come back to ground level.
- pizzafeelsright 3y agoOne drunk family member throwing blindly and we lost such a great toy. Thankfully I just made my own.
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