taking a break from cleaning and being a loser in Welsh to bring you this

[cornerofmadness]

well as a few of my friends can tell you (Looking at you wildrider) that cracked.com is comic crack.

I was poking around (because who wants to clean house?) and found the 5 least surprising toy recalls and naturally #1 is lawn darts (jarts) after they killed several kids including one in INdiana that got it in the head.

so just for evil_little_dog here's one of the comments to that. I live in Indiana, and a Jart to the cranium wouldn't make much difference around here.

but seriously you all must go to unintentionally perverted toys (and be sure that you look at the second page where the best stuff is hanging out)

and while you're at it... have a little of this products to traumatize infants and to be rounded out by disturbing toys (L and I totally bought the screaming monkey for the classroom to demonstrate potential vs kinetic energy)

Comments

[bob_fish.livejournal.com]

Those are superb. The vibrating wand made me snort.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

the vibrating broom is one i remember i was dying over it at the time

[wildrider.livejournal.com]

hee hee hee.

I have one of those screaming monkeys. One of the gals at work brought one in and it's a joy to see (and hear) them screaming over the tops of cubicles (of course, considering I've mostly seen them marketed to adults via places like ThinkGeek and Books Across America...)

But some of those toys don't even look real (although I remember "Hugo, the Man of a Thousand Faces").

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

i wondered how real some of them are b ut yes i definitely remember Hugo.

[evil-little-dog.livejournal.com]

Oh, Hugo! He was great. My cousin had one.

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

My brother ended up with stitches on his face from a lawn dart incident in Indiana -- I wonder if it was the same one?

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

oh geez

the kid in the incident had his skull pierced

[ozma914.livejournal.com]

I'd say that counts as more serious.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

just a bit. One imagines he was trying to catch it... or was just oblvious to game in play but since it's a boy

[ishte.livejournal.com]

I couldn't believe when I heard that real jarts had been recalled because of accidental deaths. People have way more accidental deaths because of cars. And I can pretty much guarantee that every death was because they were being played with by people who were not using common sense, or by kids who were not supervised and hadn't been taught basic safety. What's next? Croquet? I mean.... logically, yes, I could kill someone if I beaned them with either a heavy croquet ball or whacked them upside the skull a few times with a croquet mallet. I hate living in a nanny state where the government feels the need to protect me from irresponsible behavior.

We had a set of jarts and nobody EVER got hurt because a) we weren't allowed to play with them without adult supervision until at least one of us was old enough to be responsible for everyone else and b) we knew that the rule saying everyone should be on the same side of the field when a jart was being thrown was just good sense because it was a heavy pointed metal object. and c) if we were playing in a park (which we never did because our four yards strung together without a fence was the best park around) people in the PARK had the sense to steer clear and not walk through our throwing field. IMAGINE THAT. Common sense.

On the bright side, I did find a website where I can buy the parts for real Jarts, to assemble my own Jarts, including a box to put them in and a carrying bag for them as well.

I wonder why they were called 'Jarts' instead of "Yarts" since they're Yard Darts... thus Y'arts would make more sense. hahaha.

[cornerofmadness.livejournal.com]

oh i have absolutely no doubt every jart injury was the result of utter stupidity and/or alcohol in the case of the adults.

i wondered the same thing about the name