You’ll Poke Your Eye Out With That, and other toy fears…
For those of you searching for toys for the wee ones this Christmas, check out Radaronline for a list of items that will bring tears back memories of dangers days gone by. Maybe your perusal of this list will make you happier with your choices this year.
In the spirit of the holidays, Radar presents the 10 most dangerous toys of all time, those treasured playthings that drew blood, chewed digits, took out eyes, and, in one case, actually irradiated. To keep things interesting, we excluded BB guns, slingshots, throwing stars, and anything else actually intended to inflict harm. Below, our toy box from hell.
The whole discussion about lawn darts - don’t miss it. 
Hat tip: Lucianne
Posted by Kathy
December 18th, 2006 at 11:41 am
I don’t know, Kathy…
I say Starbucks Coffee is more dangerous than that “Johnny Reb Cannon”…
Even when they ‘double-cup’ it…it still burns yours hands…
BTW…why is it that McDonnalds coffee cups say, “Be careful–this Hot Coffee may be Hot”…and Starbucks cups don’t ???…
Anyway…I sure miss the Good Ole’ Days…you know…
Eaten’ Creepy Crawlers and Nukin’ Cabbage Patch Dolls with my Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Set…
And…FYI…You can shoot those Lawn Darts out of that Johnny Reb Cannon…but don’t tell Momma…
December 18th, 2006 at 11:48 am
Having been the smaller sibling on the other side of the house judging my brother’s accuracy with projectiles, I have some sympathy for the victims of play…
Of course the author is correct, I should have moved…
Yes, but Sir Randall, did you have one of those cap gun belt buckles? If so, I’ll have to imagine you with a much higher voice.
December 18th, 2006 at 11:50 am
Remember when we used to have fun, before the blood-sucking lawyers took over?
December 18th, 2006 at 11:53 am
Kathy…
I did…
But, I was really–Reeeaaally Careful…
And I sang Bass…(well, at least until that time I slid off the seat of my Christmas Bike !!)…
But, I got better…
December 18th, 2006 at 11:55 am
RP…
I remember Toy Doctor Sets…
I remember Toy Nurse Sets…
But, I don’t remember Toy Lawyer Sets…
Funny…isn’t it…
December 18th, 2006 at 11:56 am
RP, SR - there were Lawyers Sets, they were kareoke machines with no music and a six pack of Charmin.
December 18th, 2006 at 12:11 pm
KATHY !!!
December 18th, 2006 at 12:58 pm
Sir R, Kathy. Don’t you remember the lawyer sets?
They sucked the life out of every party.
December 18th, 2006 at 2:05 pm
Interesting Reading December 18, 2006
Remember “Jarts?” Or you may have known them as “Lawn Darts.” Well, Lawn Darts is number 10 on Radar Online’s ten most dangerous playthings of all time. (Hat Tip Kathy at Hang Right Politics.)
December 18th, 2006 at 5:56 pm
Hi friends-my wife is doing well. They removed the melanoma without damaging the eye. Back to the topic (and ignoring the lawyer jokes), once again we were warned we cannot put our new toaster oven in the bathtub and we can’t put our head in the plastic bag, either. Another example of the lawyers sucking the fun out of Christmas? Probably.
December 18th, 2006 at 5:58 pm
Davidm.
That is great news. Prayers do work.
December 18th, 2006 at 6:00 pm
I once moved into a new house that still had the stickers on the bathtub. One said, “do not eat this sticker”. I suppose that somewhere, sometime that some idiot did, however, 99.9999% of people do not need a law causing that sticker to say that.
December 18th, 2006 at 6:15 pm
Don’t tell anyone, but I have removed the tags on the mattress that say “do not remove.” Don’t know what the penalty is. OT-major snowstorm hitting us now. Snow Day tomorrow!!?
December 18th, 2006 at 6:18 pm
Davidm,
Great news! I know you are greatly relieved. How soon will you and your wife get to go home? And will there be follow up meds and/or treatments?
Please tell her we continue to pray for her quick recovery.
Don’t take the lawyer jokes too seriously - if you go to the link you’ll see we chemists take a hit on one of the ‘worst toys in history’ -
I thought it was very funny and I actually know someone who got this.
A friend of mine got this kit and went on to make his own particle accelerator in a seventh grade science project. Some of those nerd jokes about chemists are just true.
December 18th, 2006 at 6:21 pm
Even more uncertain is the longterm impact of being raised by the kind of nerds who would give their kid an Atomic Energy Lab. ~radar
Yep.
December 18th, 2006 at 6:36 pm
I have six brothers. I remember we used to shoot at each other with BB Guns and other assorted things.
When it was time to learn how to swim, they threw me and my twin brother in the creek.
There was no trick that we were denied.
But, I will tell you all something that Sir Randall already knows. I would not trade my childhood with anyone. It is a pity that joy and fun have been taken out of childhood.
December 18th, 2006 at 6:56 pm
RP, last year I was horseback riding in the Andes. I was on a trail on a rented horse, and expected some rules and a disappointing safe ride… plodding along - I even brought my camera thinking it would be easy to photograph..
Ha ha - the litigation here that has discouraged freedoms hasn’t happened there. So when we approached a swollen river our guide said “just hang on to the horse - he’ll get to the other side” My husband said “you’ve got to be kidding!”
I was laughing so hard I almost fell off my horse. When we arrived at a glacial meadow swathed in lupine, I told the guide I wanted to take my horse at a gallop across the meadow - he said go ahead. I had the time of my life that day.
That would never happen here. Everyone is too afraid of lawsuits.
December 18th, 2006 at 7:14 pm
Kathy
The courts have sucked all the oxygen out of fun!!!
December 18th, 2006 at 7:31 pm
We get out revenge, RP, we make fun of the courts!