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Dangerous Toys

HungryJoeHungryJoe
edited August 2007 in Everything Else
When I was a kid, we didn't have to import our dangerous toys from China. We had lawn darts, cap guns, bow and arrow sets, clackers, pen knives, BB guns and this:

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What dangerous toys did you have?

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  • JukeBoxJoshJukeBoxJosh
    Does a bow and suction-cup arrow count?
  • AprecheApreche
    I remember we had an old Battletech toy. It was a 8"-12" tall summoner mech with the barrel of missles on its shoulder. Those missiles fired with a deadly amount of power. More power than they allow in kids toys these days.
  • HungryJoeHungryJoe
    edited August 2007
    Does a bow and suction-cup arrow count?
    We had those too. We immediately removed the suction cups and sharpened the business ends with our pen knives.
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  • JukeBoxJoshJukeBoxJosh
    We had those too. We immediately removed the suction cups and sharpened the business ends with our pen knives.
    Holy awesomeness!
    Well, I'm kinda glad I didn't do that... I always shot it at my sister. I think I still have it somewhere...
  • HungryJoeHungryJoe
    edited August 2007
    This was dangerous:



    These weren't dangerous, they're just 70s Star Trek awesomeness:




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  • cosmicenemacosmicenema
    We had lawn darts
    These things were awesome . . . so deadly.
  • HungryJoeHungryJoe
    When we really wanted to be dangerous, we'd break a thermometer. The mercury would make our nickels nice and shiny.

    Have you ever been slapped by a piece of Hot Wheels track? Ouch!
  • cosmicenemacosmicenema

    Have you ever been slapped by a piece of Hot Wheels track? Ouch!
    . . . by ouch you mean hot right?

    Seriously though . . . we used to have "sword" fights with hot wheel tracks . . . the old orange ones . . . sweetness.
  • sK0pesK0pe
    I'd say that currently, the Wii is the most dangerous toy, especially for  the uncoordinated, my cousin's wife regularly smacks her self with the controls playing Wii sports, plus she also accidentally punched her husband in the face (with wedding and engagement rings on).
    She's also given herself elbow and shoulder strains.  She hasn't worked out that acceleration doesn't mean you have to move your arms and jump around like a crazy person, granted she hits more aces on tennis that way but whatever. 
  • cosmicenemacosmicenema
    my cousin's wife regularly smacks her self with the controls playing Wii sports, plus she also accidentally punched her husband in the face (with wedding and engagement rings on).
    YouTube please.
  • BlattusBlattus
    Dangerous toys? When I grew up and played with toys they actually used lead paint.....wait a minute...
  • Jain7thJain7th
    Lead paint... yummy!
  • taraxgoattaraxgoat
    I used to be into model rocketry around age 10.

    They become dangerous when you go from launching vertically to launching horizontally.
  • OmnutiaOmnutia
    Ive always wanted crockery set painted with an unstable isotope from united nuclear just so I can say off hand "oh, I wouldn't touch those. Radioactive, you know."
  • HungryJoeHungryJoe
    I had this. The Power Shop, not the dolls. I swear.

  • HungryJoeHungryJoe
    Hey - maybe they could use Super Elastic Bubble Plastic to fix the gouge on the Space Shuttle.
  • JasonJason
    When I heard John Stossel speak earlier this year, he was talking about his career in consumer economics coverage. I was particularly interested when he explored common products that, if they were introduced as new inventions today, would be outlawed by the government's regulations: Cars, bicycles, swimming pools, LEGOs....

    Of course, there's also the famous SNL skit "Consumer Probe" to mention:
    Toy maker Irwin Mainway (Dan Aykroyd) would appear on this talk show and hopelessly defend his company's extremely dangerous products such as "Bag O' Glass", "Bag O' Vipers", "Bag O' Sulfuric Acid", "Mr. Skin Grafter", "Pretty Peggy's Ear Piercing Kit", "Doggy Dentist", "Chancellor Tron's Secret Police Confession Kit", "Johnny Switchblade Adventure Punk", and "Chainsaw Teddybear". A sketch frequently aired by SNL on their Halloween retrospective special had Mainway defending Halloween costumes such as a military outfit that included an actual working rifle, an entirely black and non-reflective uniform called "Invisible Pedestrian" (which had a warning on the package that read "NOT FOR BLIND KIDS"), an airtight plastic bag that was to be affixed over the head with a rubber band called "Johnny Space Commander Mask," and an oil-soaked costume called "Johnny Human Torch", which came complete with an oversized lighter. Each sketch would end with the host (Jane Curtin) condemning Mainway's products, while Mainway would make pathetic attempts to show how more commonplace toys/clothing were equally harmful.
  • cosmicenemacosmicenema
    I had this. The Power Shop, not the dolls. I swear.
    Holy crap that's awesome. How come we can't have power tools in our toy boxes?
  • LusankyaLusankya
    My brothers and I were always into ripping apart remote control cars, and one day we strapped some model rocket engines to the roof with a remote firing system that we bastardized out of the innards of another car. It wasn't pretty, but damn, that thing could move. One day one of the engines fired too late, the whole thing went into an insane flat spin, and the PCB tethered to the roof turned to dust when the pavement gave it a kiss. The other engine broke free and shot clear of the car, leaving a scar on my brother's leg.

    Toys aren't dangerous, it's what you do to the toys that's dangerous.
  • BromleyBromley
    So what you're saying is...toys aren't dangerous...those damn kids are.
  • LusankyaLusankya
    edited August 2007
    So what you're saying is...toys aren't dangerous...those damn kids are.
    Exactly!

    Well, at least I was pretty dangerous...
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  • OmnutiaOmnutia
    edited August 2007
    Do you think that being overly cautious about children's safety makes them not think about safety for themselves? If you start them with something mildly dangerous like the safety saw (or the dolls with bendable legs) then work them up to fireworks and onwards to chainsaws and firearms in their late teens then they would probably be proficient at looking after themselves.
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  • BlattusBlattus
    If you start them with something mildly dangerous like the safety saw (or the dolls with bendable legs) then work them up to fireworks and onwards to chainsaws and firearms in their late teens then they would probably be proficient at looking after themselves.
    I definitely agree...the same thing applies to what I call "government parenting" which is where the government thinks that it has the responsibility to teach kids how to be smart about their lives and such. Let kids scrape themselves a few times, I know I did, and they'll toughen themselves up a bit
  • HungryJoeHungryJoe
    We also made a lot of dangerous toys for ourselves. On a farm, there are many dangerous things to play with. We would use tobacco sticks to play swords and we would throw corn cobs at each other. If we were feeling mean, we would smear mud on the corn cobs. If we were feeling really mean, we would smear manure on the corn cobs.
  • HMTKSteveHMTKSteve
    We also made a lot of dangerous toys for ourselves. On a farm, there are many dangerous things to play with. We would use tobacco sticks to play swords and we would throw corn cobs at each other. If we were feeling mean, we would smear mud on the corn cobs. If we were feeling really mean, we would smear manure on the corn cobs.
    Your talk of corn, farms and play reminds me of some silent 8mm films a friend of mine once owned...

    Before we had the vigi games we had to make do with scraps we found around the yard. I remember pine cone wars when I was a kid. If you got them early enough they were hard, bright green and very sappy. Get one of them in your hair and you might as well shave your head.

    Dirt clod wars were also common though the occasional "hey, that was rock," was heard. This activity only took place in areas where a development was being built as they had the best clay to dig through.
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