Did you have a set of Jarts?

[Dukkha]

I did. They were so fun to play with. They also doubled as spaceships for your action figures. Jarts were like an urban legend in that everyone knew someone who got hit in the eye or stabbed in the head with one. They were probably the last of the great dangerous yard toys.

[flamingyouth]

1. Yes, we did.

I remember playing with them with my dad when I was about three or so. Great toy for pre-schoolers, there! :D

[LSparkle]

2. My grandparents did -- we couldn't wait to visit them to play

Now THOSE were the days: grandparents would buy lawn darts for their grandchildren to play with!

[Toby109]

3. Not only that

I'm pretty sure my parents still have it. I wonder how much they would fetch on ebay.

[trof]

4. I put my eye out with one.

Since it was a self inflicted wound, we couldn't sue.
;-)

[Enraged_Ape]

5. Greatest Picnic Game Ever

I remember when they were taken off the market in 1988. Supposedly something like 6,700 people had been injured by lawn darts, and three people had been killed. Yet at the same time, MILLIONS of lawn dart sets had been sold in the U.S., and sales of alcohol, cigarettes, and handguns continued unimpeded.

To this day I can't even imagine the stupidity needed to injure and/or kill somebody with a lawn dart.

[RetroLounge]

7. Read my post below for imagined stupidity

:D

RL

[RetroLounge]

6. I have actually seen 3 Jart-Induced wounds

1) Parents and their friends playing. Husband puts jart in wife's foot. Punture Wound in top of foot. Trip to hospital ensues.

2) All of us idiot little kids playing Jart Chicken in my back yard. Tossing jart high in air and seeing who would be last to get the hell out of the way. Friend of my older brother got jart in back, but since it was coming straight down, it didn't do much harm. Puncture under skin, like a 3" long sliver, as wide as a Jart head. Trip running home ensues.

3) I threw jart up in air and it came down and punctured hole in brand new aluminum gutters my dad had just purchased and installed days before. Wound involved a smack bottom...

RL

[Enraged_Ape]

8. I stand corrected

Those things ARE dangerous.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

9. awesome! I love those things!!!

LONG LIVE JARTS!!!

[ucmike]

10. sweet jarts. never saw an injury but......

i remember a house on my friends street that had a whole set stuck in the roof. they were there every time i went to visit so i guess they didn't cause leaks.

seemed reasonble at the time, but i can't imagine that a homeowner would ignore 6 jarts sticking through the roof.

[usedtobesick]

11. just telling my kids...

that Warcraft 3 and Doom 3 and all their on-line games are for wooses. We had a game where we actually threw metal darts at each other in the yard. Anyone ever play stretch? You should across from one another and threw a knife into the ground to see who could make the other person do a split fastest? If I caught my kids doing that today I would go nuts... :freak:

[Redstone]

12. We used to play "Timber:"

half a dozen of us could climb up a tree, and one or two kids with axes would chop the tree down, with us riding it to the ground.

That was a fill-in activity when we weren't jumping off cliffs, hosing down the snow in the sandpit across the street (had to swipe every garden hose in the neighborhood) to make an ice-encrusted "bobsled run" for our sleds, or shooting each other with BB rifles (first to say "ow" lost).

Ah, the good old days.

Redstone

[Left Is Write]

13. My parents still have our old set.