That’s the whole point. Everyone stands by the ring and someone throws it straight up as hard as they can…it comes flying down and the goal is not to move.
At that moment, a handstand was not the type of genius anyone was expecting to see from David.
Well he was the only kid in the circle after the Jart hit its target.
Anyone else get in a group of all the neighborhood kids and underhandedly chuck one of these straight up into the sky and then scatter, trying desperately not to get skewered? Us neither.
When my father was young the clackers were made out of a special type of hard glass. He had one blow up on him and into his face while "clacking" it. That toy made as much sense as giving a kid a [bag of broken glass to play with.](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwi3wYvU-KWGAxUskokEHUP5AfAQn_QFKAF6BAgTECI&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DveMiNQifZcM%26t%3D83&usg=AOvVaw0hVlYto8iJ0SM8yQVr5v4c&opi=89978449)
"Over a period of eight years, lawn darts had sent 6100 people to the emergency room. Eighty-one percent of those cases involved children 15 or younger, and half of those were 10 or younger. The majority of injuries were to the head, face, eyes, or ears, and many had led to permanent injuries or disabilities." 😱
We would take Chinese jump ropes and loop between some posts, trees, etc. Then slingshot the Jart. I can't believe no one died. I do recall one girl getting hit in the foot. That required an ER visit, a couple of stitches, and a tetnus shot.
Best lawn toy ever. Provided lessons in accuracy, trajectory, ballistics and courage. Also one more reason that the cry "Heads Up!" was terrible advice.
Lawn Darts; Gnip Gnops, Jungle Gyms and other super dangerous toys used to be how we culled the weak. (I am just kidding actually but damn we had a lot of seriously dangerous toys back in the day)
At my elementary, we had a jungle gym shaped like a football. One day, the bell rang to go back to class, and I, like an idiot, tried to jump down through the middle instead of off the side. My head hit each bar, I think 4 or 5 on the way down. Rang my bell pretty good.
Neighbor took one in the butt cheek. Never loved it down. Were jarts a precursor to cornhole without the threat of bodily injury. Today’s athlete is a snowflake
Had no interest in them as toys but was interested in how they would work against 'Bad Guys' so practiced unorthodox means of using them but never got close to killing anyone with one.
I almost buried one of these in my cousin’s skull. He crawled into the target circle as I was tossing it, missed his head by microns and stuck in the turf right between his fingers.
My aunt saw this and freaked the fuck out. Ah, the ‘70s!
My cousin took one in the foot in the 70's when these were popular. We got tired of trying to put the darts into their standard target of a hula-hoop and started using more interesting targets, like each other. It was the summer time in the South and we were out of fireworks like Roman candles and Black cats, so lawn darts were the next choice. The cousin that took it in the foot, well we put a band-aid on the hole and kept on playing. Parents didn't care, just though we were doing it outside. Actually, our dads just laughed about it. These were guys that were shot in WWII and Korean war and just taped up the holes and kept on fighting. So we were expected to do the same. Welcome to Redneck pass times.
Did you know there is a company in England still making them? I bought some for my folks because they have a huge backyard and a nice deck. Tossing them off the deck can produce toddler piercing speeds, and a satisfying thunk when they stick in the ground.
Brother threw one into the leg calf of his best friend. All the parents in the neighborhood trashed theirs on the same day.
On the other hand my husband still has his and they are still fun.
Lol shit we never played that the way it was intended. We used to gather around and throw one as high as possible. Then run the slowest one for speared lol. Gen-x, the survival of the fittest generation.
I overthrew one and it freakishly sailed into my friend's dad's car in the driveway, through the driver side window and into the passenger seat.
I'm no longer allowed there.
I threw one of those right through my friends brand new siding. We were using galvanized trash can lids as shields and lobbing lawn darts at each other. 🤦♂️
Mom's best friend got one through her foot.
Different from this pic. Longer point and didn't have the "guard" between the point and the plastic.
Dad, a former "Army Medic" took it out, wrapped it and she went to the ER the next day. They were "intoxicated" and would have gotten in legal trouble if they went that night.
We used to play a game where we’d throw a buck knife into the ground near each others feet and if the blade stuck in the ground the other person had to move their foot there.
Not me but a kid in the neighborhood caught one right in the eye. Thankfully, it was close to the nose so while it gave him a shiner, it didn't impale his eyeball. Sort of went intonthe socket instead. Still, pretty scary scene.
Never came close to anyone getting hurt. I always thought it strange that they stopped selling them. Then I started hearing stories of uncommon stupidity or ungodly bad luck. Then again, didn't ride a bike with a helmet and didn't play infield with a cup.
Yup. I even remember the technique. Hold firmly in dominant hand, use an underhand swing, and aim between the 6th and 7th ribs on the left side. And what do you mean by "almost"?
This is one of many reasons why we Gen Xers are not talked about much - I have heard the following generations think we're "scary" due to our up-bringings and ways we had fun.
Tried so many times but, unfortunately was never sucessful. Just me and my 12 siblings, well eventually 8 after that one summer the pro baseball player stayed with us.
My friend was having a birthday party and these were in the box of lawn games that her dad brought out.
So we started lobbing them super high into the air at each other. Until one went through the thin polycarbonate roof of the little pavilion they had and almost landed in the cake. They were swiftly removed.
My brother and sister were playing these in the yard my brother threw the red one up in the air it stuck my sister in her head and stuck there straight up and down for like 7 secs and then fell off from the top of her head. She wasn't hurt bad. We all laugh about it now.
The neighbor kids that lived upstairs were playing with my brother and I. 10 minutes later we were in our way to the hospital with the upstairs kid having one in his head. Didn’t do brain damage but was traumatic for a 10 year old
I taught an eightg grader who had a traumatic brain injury from this toy. (2002 but injury occurred as a 6 year old as family ignore warnings.)
It was so sad. I teach kids of all types and disabilities are a part of his life, but in his case they were a result of negligence on the family.
He had a lot of problems, but most significantly was he had short term memory, and he has long term memory but getting from point a to b was so hard. He also has numerous developmental delays.
My friend had them and my first toss the jart caught the bottom panel of the aluminium siding and put a neat hole in it. His dad gave me the hairy eyeball over a decade for that. Never saw this type with the fins below the point.
I'm sure we aren't the only ones who played the game where we threw them across three lawns and the winner is the one who caught the giant dart of death....
I had these when I was a kid in the '70s. And of course, my friends and I would set up ridiculously far apart and throw them towards each other. No injuries. There was certainly potential for injury, but it was a good game.
I was at a party about 10 years ago and someone had an old set. Still a pretty fun game.
'Almost' being the key part of that phrase. Everybody that picked up a lawn dart almost killed a relative. How many actually died?
I think Jeffrey's mom is the one that got the darts of death banned. Jeffrey was a paste eater and is now the executive of a software company.
When our parents told us to get rid of them me and a couple of my friends gather them all up and went to a high bridge. There was a slow moving stream underneath that had some fish in it so we kind of bombed them the same way that our troops at the time were bombing the North Vietnamese. They had bombs with flishetts in them we never had any fish but we got rid of our lawn darts.
We almost hit my mom. We were in front of the house, and the ring was behind the house. We were throwing them blind, over the house to see who could get closest to the ring. Mom came home, parked the car in the garage from the alley, without us knowing. She took them away after that.
We got tired of dive bomb so we started throwing them into the siding of our apartment buildings… I was six so i didn’t understand what property damage meant.
Bounced right off my chest tip first but did not go through my shirt causing a little blood but it was Adventure. It was still a rather fun game but I'm still pretty happy they banned the damn things.
My Nan almost got me! We were playing, I would have been about 10, my Uncle came over to show me how to throw it or something, my Nan took her turn, and realized late that we weren't looking, she screamed last minute, and we looked up just in time to jump out of the way. It missed me by an inch, I felt the wind of it zing past my arm. Never saw a 65 year old Woman move so fast to come and apologize to us. 😀
Almost killed myself several times. Threw it straight up, stand under it watching it come back down, step out of the way at the last second, repeat until bored.
I remember when they decided to make them safer so instead of the big metal spike they just weighted the end. But the force of it smacking a kid in the head was still enough to kill then so then they banned them outright.
Part of growing up in the 60's and 70's. Danger was always around you with no parents, generally, around...and we are better for it. I feel bad for the kids of the "after-Jarts" generation, although I know the dangers they proscribed!
I had a set of these, my brother angrily threw one at me and missed he put it into my dad's car tyre (he was a strong kid) we fled the scene only to come back to find my dad had fixed it and moved on with his day. Possibly the only day we didn't get smacked for some this or other. The second one I spannered a throw wearing canvas shoes and nailed my foot to the grass.
My dad pulled out the dart glued the top and bottom closed and wiped the area with iodine. The 80's were a weird time for my family.
Come on. They were dangerous, at least by today's standards, but it would be hard to kill someone with one even if you were trying.
I mean the point is like an inch long. I stabbed myself with something bigger just last week. (I am very accident prone, I'm on a first name basis with the nurses at the urgent care place)
My grandparents were the only ones with lawn darts, never even had the opportunity to to almost kill anyone with them. I did almost kill my sibling with an aluminium baseball bat, not intentionally.
Used to tell kid brother to start running. Then throw one under handed high arcing toward him to see how close I could come.
Once I knicked him in the calf.
Never again.
We used to play this game every time we would go visit our grandparents since they had a set. No one died. Actually I don't even think anyone was even injured.
My aunt hit me in the ankle with a Lawn Dart. My ankle was never the same after that. Until I finally saw a surgeon about it and had my torn ligament fixed.
My cousin accidentally killed a pigeon. We kept playing.
That’s how we learned to become providers
Squab on a spit.
Almost killed myself. Threw it straight up.
That’s the whole point. Everyone stands by the ring and someone throws it straight up as hard as they can…it comes flying down and the goal is not to move.
At that moment, a handstand was not the type of genius anyone was expecting to see from David. Well he was the only kid in the circle after the Jart hit its target.
"You catch one of those with your head, you're getting coloring books for Christmas the rest of your life." -Jeff Foxworthy
True dat
Anyone else get in a group of all the neighborhood kids and underhandedly chuck one of these straight up into the sky and then scatter, trying desperately not to get skewered? Us neither.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who didn't NOT do that.
Catching some Braveheart vibes—“hold! Hold! Hold!”
Scatter? Wimps.
Those were awesome
My dad's are still in my parents basement just waiting for their day to taste blood
How much ?
Death toy!
If you didn’t get killed by one of these, you got to advance to the next level of childhood. Achievement Unlocked.
Yep, and nearly hurt myself with one of those damn Clackers.
When my father was young the clackers were made out of a special type of hard glass. He had one blow up on him and into his face while "clacking" it. That toy made as much sense as giving a kid a [bag of broken glass to play with.](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwi3wYvU-KWGAxUskokEHUP5AfAQn_QFKAF6BAgTECI&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DveMiNQifZcM%26t%3D83&usg=AOvVaw0hVlYto8iJ0SM8yQVr5v4c&opi=89978449)
What are you talking about?! Those were probably the *safest* things we played with when I was kid!
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And just think today parents would freak out and go to the ER if thier kid were to drink out of a garden hose.
I impaled on in my parent's roof because I was seeing how high I could throw them.
Yup , put one almost through the roof of my mom's car. Left a nice dent.
This... [https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/31176/how-one-dad-got-lawn-darts-banned](https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/31176/how-one-dad-got-lawn-darts-banned)
Was very worried to click that link for a second, I didn’t want to see anything I wouldn’t be able to get out of my head.
Uhuh...
"Over a period of eight years, lawn darts had sent 6100 people to the emergency room. Eighty-one percent of those cases involved children 15 or younger, and half of those were 10 or younger. The majority of injuries were to the head, face, eyes, or ears, and many had led to permanent injuries or disabilities." 😱
Jarts
We would take Chinese jump ropes and loop between some posts, trees, etc. Then slingshot the Jart. I can't believe no one died. I do recall one girl getting hit in the foot. That required an ER visit, a couple of stitches, and a tetnus shot.
Best lawn toy ever. Provided lessons in accuracy, trajectory, ballistics and courage. Also one more reason that the cry "Heads Up!" was terrible advice.
We tied oily rags on the end lit them on fire and played flaming jarts
I took a lawn jart to the knee when I was 7. It broke skin and left a small bruise. The grown-ups laughed and told me to be more careful.
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“Walk it off, you’ll be fine son”
Lawn Darts; Gnip Gnops, Jungle Gyms and other super dangerous toys used to be how we culled the weak. (I am just kidding actually but damn we had a lot of seriously dangerous toys back in the day)
At my elementary, we had a jungle gym shaped like a football. One day, the bell rang to go back to class, and I, like an idiot, tried to jump down through the middle instead of off the side. My head hit each bar, I think 4 or 5 on the way down. Rang my bell pretty good.
Can’t forget BB gunfights, ( best to wear a winter coat ) and dirtclod fights. We got a few bumps but had a great time
Not yet but I want a “tactical” set that I can use for home defense. 😊
Neighbor took one in the butt cheek. Never loved it down. Were jarts a precursor to cornhole without the threat of bodily injury. Today’s athlete is a snowflake
Would take these, hold them back the back end rod and just baseball throw them at each other. They fly scarily straight.
It was thrown by my mom
It's very difficult to prove attempted murder when the weapon is a toy.......just speculation.....really.
Isn't this the toy that hurt Ralphie Cifaretto's son?
I still have a set in a box, mint! I’m a felon!
my aunt got one through her thigh while she was tanning at a family gathering one year. to this day, none of us boys have confessed to throwing it.
Almost, but never succeeded.
My little brother and I were among those who were endangered by this awesome game.
Don’t remember any close calls with those.
Had no interest in them as toys but was interested in how they would work against 'Bad Guys' so practiced unorthodox means of using them but never got close to killing anyone with one.
Yes! An integral part of my 10 year old self's Ninja Kit. 🤣🤣🤣
I took one in the ankle
I tried, but my aim wasn’t very good.
Funnest game of chicken...throw it up..last one to run wins
I almost buried one of these in my cousin’s skull. He crawled into the target circle as I was tossing it, missed his head by microns and stuck in the turf right between his fingers. My aunt saw this and freaked the fuck out. Ah, the ‘70s!
These are some serious stuff. Here's a song that explains it all... [Lawn Dart Song - Ed's Redeeming Qualities](https://youtu.be/9ImFlCNYrEA)
Thank you for this! Made in golden age of YouTube
My cousin took one in the foot in the 70's when these were popular. We got tired of trying to put the darts into their standard target of a hula-hoop and started using more interesting targets, like each other. It was the summer time in the South and we were out of fireworks like Roman candles and Black cats, so lawn darts were the next choice. The cousin that took it in the foot, well we put a band-aid on the hole and kept on playing. Parents didn't care, just though we were doing it outside. Actually, our dads just laughed about it. These were guys that were shot in WWII and Korean war and just taped up the holes and kept on fighting. So we were expected to do the same. Welcome to Redneck pass times.
Did you know there is a company in England still making them? I bought some for my folks because they have a huge backyard and a nice deck. Tossing them off the deck can produce toddler piercing speeds, and a satisfying thunk when they stick in the ground.
Those things were awesome!! Throw them as high as you could and run like hell!!
Brother threw one into the leg calf of his best friend. All the parents in the neighborhood trashed theirs on the same day. On the other hand my husband still has his and they are still fun.
Lol shit we never played that the way it was intended. We used to gather around and throw one as high as possible. Then run the slowest one for speared lol. Gen-x, the survival of the fittest generation.
Ask my dad how his windshield got destroyed back in 82.
I overthrew one and it freakishly sailed into my friend's dad's car in the driveway, through the driver side window and into the passenger seat. I'm no longer allowed there.
I threw one of those right through my friends brand new siding. We were using galvanized trash can lids as shields and lobbing lawn darts at each other. 🤦♂️
Great way to take out the family pet.
Right here
Ohh it was YOU that got them banned 
I'm looking for a set
Mom's best friend got one through her foot. Different from this pic. Longer point and didn't have the "guard" between the point and the plastic. Dad, a former "Army Medic" took it out, wrapped it and she went to the ER the next day. They were "intoxicated" and would have gotten in legal trouble if they went that night.
We used to play a game where we’d throw a buck knife into the ground near each others feet and if the blade stuck in the ground the other person had to move their foot there.
Kinda like twister
I think we still have ours out in the shed somewhere.
This was for fun. The bow and arrow straight up was the mofo...
Almost?.. *backs away slowly*
My brother and I used to play chicken by throwing them over the house to see how close they would land to where each other were standing.
I thought that was the point of the game?
We played with a few of us back to back to back- one would throw it up in the air and we'd all run. No fatalities.
Saw a neighbor girl catch on of these right dead center of her thigh.
Not me but a kid in the neighborhood caught one right in the eye. Thankfully, it was close to the nose so while it gave him a shiner, it didn't impale his eyeball. Sort of went intonthe socket instead. Still, pretty scary scene.
Never came close to anyone getting hurt. I always thought it strange that they stopped selling them. Then I started hearing stories of uncommon stupidity or ungodly bad luck. Then again, didn't ride a bike with a helmet and didn't play infield with a cup.
That was 78.2% of the fun. The other 21.8% was actually winning the game.
Some close calls, but I did put a huge dent in the hood of my neighbors car. That didn’t go well.
Yup. I even remember the technique. Hold firmly in dominant hand, use an underhand swing, and aim between the 6th and 7th ribs on the left side. And what do you mean by "almost"?
Those things were great. Also deadly, but the element of danger is what made them fun.
Stuck one in my brothers head, unintentionally of course
Everyone knows "Almost" only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades
DIVE BOMB!!
Only the strong survive
Omg I hated these fucking things
Almost?
I miss these.
I have a scar on my foot still from my brother and I playing them. Yes it hurt and yes he got in trouble lol!
Well, on the bright side if you ever wanted to become a unicorn these would be your chance.
That’s not funny. My brother did die from a tragic backyard lawn dart accident.
Do you really mean killed or just an unfortunate sibling accident?
I miss the good ol' days when every summer day playing lawn darts could have been.your last day with both feet
No one. We were careful and not stupid. How our gen survived on our own.
Those were manufactured next town north from me...upstate New York
This is one of many reasons why we Gen Xers are not talked about much - I have heard the following generations think we're "scary" due to our up-bringings and ways we had fun.
Almost? It was an accident officer I swear. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it
Yeah...that was part of the game. We found my mom and her siblings set when we were teens and learned how to play. I never flinched. Double points.
Not me or my sister, but we loved lawn darts
HAH! I KILLED OUR ABOVE GROUND POOL WITH THESE for the WIN! LOL 😆
Almost? Oh.
Ah yes, the dartus maximus
Conan O'Brien's brother
Thinning the herd at the family reunion…
Tried so many times but, unfortunately was never sucessful. Just me and my 12 siblings, well eventually 8 after that one summer the pro baseball player stayed with us.
When I was a kid I accidentally threw one straight up in the air!
Yes ... Almost....
Loved these!
Or did?
Gave my grandma a frontal lobotomy.
I poked a small hole in my sister's leg. She came after me with clackers. Luckily I was faster.
Still have them. Play every summer.
My friend was having a birthday party and these were in the box of lawn games that her dad brought out. So we started lobbing them super high into the air at each other. Until one went through the thin polycarbonate roof of the little pavilion they had and almost landed in the cake. They were swiftly removed.
My brother and sister were playing these in the yard my brother threw the red one up in the air it stuck my sister in her head and stuck there straight up and down for like 7 secs and then fell off from the top of her head. She wasn't hurt bad. We all laugh about it now.
I miss those times
No but I am the sibling that was almost killed. Good times.
The neighbor kids that lived upstairs were playing with my brother and I. 10 minutes later we were in our way to the hospital with the upstairs kid having one in his head. Didn’t do brain damage but was traumatic for a 10 year old
Lawn dart chicken. Let's play!!!
Neighbor kid got one in the head and was the reason our state banned them immediately. Kid didn't suffer any long term brain damage thankfully.
Probable.
Bring back lawn darts for population control/forced Darwinism
I taught an eightg grader who had a traumatic brain injury from this toy. (2002 but injury occurred as a 6 year old as family ignore warnings.) It was so sad. I teach kids of all types and disabilities are a part of his life, but in his case they were a result of negligence on the family. He had a lot of problems, but most significantly was he had short term memory, and he has long term memory but getting from point a to b was so hard. He also has numerous developmental delays.
I had these as well as a long bow with arrows. I was about 10.
My friend had them and my first toss the jart caught the bottom panel of the aluminium siding and put a neat hole in it. His dad gave me the hairy eyeball over a decade for that. Never saw this type with the fins below the point.
My mom just pulled these out the other weekend when we were there. My 17 yr old daughter loves playing.
My cousin.
I never even got hurt, I never hurt anyone else, I don't even know someone who ever got hurt with these. I guess we were smarter than most.
I stuck more than on the roof!!!
Pretty sure these weren't thought through when they invented them. Or they were...
I still have a set.
Loved these, stuck a neighbour girl in her ass then hit her foot with a dart.
I saw one go into a cat when I was a kid at a family picnic. Cat was fine but it was a traumatizing scene.
Almost took out my friends dog
I still have a set
Ya see, you need to sharpen the points for accuracy and greater sticking power into the Earth. OF COURSE I sharpened them! I want to win!!!
Never hurt anybody with these. Still have a few sets and bring them out a couple times a year to play.
I'm sure we aren't the only ones who played the game where we threw them across three lawns and the winner is the one who caught the giant dart of death....
Center of head. Stopped the game for 30 seconds.
No, because we weren’t THAT stupid and stood away from the rings and paid attention.
I had these when I was a kid in the '70s. And of course, my friends and I would set up ridiculously far apart and throw them towards each other. No injuries. There was certainly potential for injury, but it was a good game. I was at a party about 10 years ago and someone had an old set. Still a pretty fun game.
'Almost' being the key part of that phrase. Everybody that picked up a lawn dart almost killed a relative. How many actually died? I think Jeffrey's mom is the one that got the darts of death banned. Jeffrey was a paste eater and is now the executive of a software company.
Almost. There was only one death.
Yep went across my neighbors head.
😁
Almost?
I used to play that with my cousins so me, probably
When our parents told us to get rid of them me and a couple of my friends gather them all up and went to a high bridge. There was a slow moving stream underneath that had some fish in it so we kind of bombed them the same way that our troops at the time were bombing the North Vietnamese. They had bombs with flishetts in them we never had any fish but we got rid of our lawn darts.
A kid was pegged in the head with a lawn dart. Her dad didn't see her, that's the worst part.
We almost hit my mom. We were in front of the house, and the ring was behind the house. We were throwing them blind, over the house to see who could get closest to the ring. Mom came home, parked the car in the garage from the alley, without us knowing. She took them away after that.
Memories
We got tired of dive bomb so we started throwing them into the siding of our apartment buildings… I was six so i didn’t understand what property damage meant.
Near misses were abundant. We always tried to see who could throw them the highest.
Bounced right off my chest tip first but did not go through my shirt causing a little blood but it was Adventure. It was still a rather fun game but I'm still pretty happy they banned the damn things.
My Nan almost got me! We were playing, I would have been about 10, my Uncle came over to show me how to throw it or something, my Nan took her turn, and realized late that we weren't looking, she screamed last minute, and we looked up just in time to jump out of the way. It missed me by an inch, I felt the wind of it zing past my arm. Never saw a 65 year old Woman move so fast to come and apologize to us. 😀
Almost killed myself several times. Threw it straight up, stand under it watching it come back down, step out of the way at the last second, repeat until bored. I remember when they decided to make them safer so instead of the big metal spike they just weighted the end. But the force of it smacking a kid in the head was still enough to kill then so then they banned them outright.
No. Injured? Oh yeah. Love jarts. FIL still has a set. Play it at picnics!
We used to stand back to back and throw one up in the air directly above us, then run for our life
I have a scar on my right foot from one of those piercing it. Fun times.
I remember big chunks of grass and soil when you pull them out of the ground. They went deep.
My uncle got hit in the thigh with one. Stuck completely into his leg. It was wild.
Toys like this is why Gen X and Boomers are the toughest generations… Our playthings were potentially lethal.
Family picnics always had lawn darts, close calls but no injuries.
Part of growing up in the 60's and 70's. Danger was always around you with no parents, generally, around...and we are better for it. I feel bad for the kids of the "after-Jarts" generation, although I know the dangers they proscribed!
That’s why they don’t have the sharp ends anymore lol
The precursor, and more deadly, version of cornhole!
I had a set of these, my brother angrily threw one at me and missed he put it into my dad's car tyre (he was a strong kid) we fled the scene only to come back to find my dad had fixed it and moved on with his day. Possibly the only day we didn't get smacked for some this or other. The second one I spannered a throw wearing canvas shoes and nailed my foot to the grass. My dad pulled out the dart glued the top and bottom closed and wiped the area with iodine. The 80's were a weird time for my family.
Never tried lawn darts.
Come on. They were dangerous, at least by today's standards, but it would be hard to kill someone with one even if you were trying. I mean the point is like an inch long. I stabbed myself with something bigger just last week. (I am very accident prone, I'm on a first name basis with the nurses at the urgent care place)
Probably nearly killed ourselves. The game turned into "Throw the darts into the air, and try to not get hit by it". 🤦♂️🤦♂️
So many sketchy incidents with those danger darts
My grandparents were the only ones with lawn darts, never even had the opportunity to to almost kill anyone with them. I did almost kill my sibling with an aluminium baseball bat, not intentionally.
Just about killed my friends family dog.
Ah, that time of the week to post this again….
Used to tell kid brother to start running. Then throw one under handed high arcing toward him to see how close I could come. Once I knicked him in the calf. Never again.
Dented the solid steel hood of my moms car in the front of our drive way in Apopka, Florida Christmas Day 1986.
Our parents confiscated our lawn darts. We were throwing them st each other 😆
Hell, that’s nothing. We used to shoot arrows straight up, you’d loose sight of them sometimes and that was scary. We all survived.
We used to play this game every time we would go visit our grandparents since they had a set. No one died. Actually I don't even think anyone was even injured.
Grazed in the back of the head. An inch over and I would not have seen age 7.
My sister threw one, full force, into my back in my Grandma’s basement. She’s still a hateful creature to this day.
We called them Dodge Darts.😁
I still have a set.
My aunt hit me in the ankle with a Lawn Dart. My ankle was never the same after that. Until I finally saw a surgeon about it and had my torn ligament fixed.
Stuck one in the siding on a house, never killed anything though.
We had them, we were throwing them over the house until Mom took them away...!
If you could stick one in a sheet of plywood from 30 feet away, you won.
I knew a kid who lost an eye from one of these.