World Against Toys Causing Harm (W.A.T.C.H.) a Boston based watchdog group, released a warning this week for fun seekers to avoid 10 specific toys and or means of recreation.
Top on the list is water balloon slingshots. Like this toy set from Bunch O Balloons. Here
Next Up, lawn darts. No Not the steel tipped “Jarts” that most of us remember from out youths. Lawn darts today are blunted like what these two are using Here
Rounding out the top three, low riding wheeled trikes like Big Wheels, which were reintroduced in 2012. Here
The full list Here
what??? … no B-B guns, no archery sets, …. no bag of glass?
https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/irwin-mainway/n8641
Jeeez….the pussification of America.
Just hide in the closet
The handle broke off my battery powered pool vacuum. Now my youngest boy fills his pockets with gravel, takes the vac down and cleans up. Best pool toy ever.
Before our Grandbabies came to live with Mrs. BAMO and me, we had three guidelines for gift buying. 10,000 pieces, Really Noisy, or Potentially Deadly (i.e. Pogo Sticks). This group would have provided a handy Christmas guide in those days!
I noticed there’s no warnings about tide pods.
Looks like Bath Salts are OK too.
Belly Laugh Third Twin!!!
My Brother had a Jonny Quest Rifle and Pistol set…Actual reusable
cartridges that held spring loaded plastic Bullets…That You’d
shoot at the Targets that You cut out of the box it came in…
Lethal at 10′ feet…(We also both had .22’s and .20 ga. Real guns)
Solo Lego pieces are still the most dangerous Toy on the Planet
ask any Dad.
I remember a time when we shot feathered darts at one another from bb guns.
This would usually happen after we went hunting mice with bows& arrows in the fields beside Woodbine Racetrack (horses).
Or if it was a hot day we would wade the Humber river beside the Municipal golf course searching for errant golf balls with our feet and selling them back on the tee.
All in the city of Toronto.
Late 60’s
Surprised their list doesn’t include pencils (sharp points can cause hand or eye injuries), baseballs, footballs, box hockey sticks, all bicycles, popsicles (brain freezes), flags mounted on poles, etc…
Brings to mind this.
https://www.shootingsoftware.com/ftp/survive.txt
Can’t stop looking at the balloons in that ad.
Dang! How’d they miss this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OZjHjJToVo
Where’s the all-black ‘Invisible Pedestrian’ Halloween costume?
I’ll fuck you up with dirt clodz….even Bad_Brad… and don’t get me started with snowballs….you will be humiliated!!!
We used to sharpen knives, whittle sticks, throw rocks, and light fires. In winter, take turns leading a walk down the middle of a somewhat frozen creek until we all fell in.
@Hambone: Roger that. BTW, is it just me, or are the pop ups getting more aggressive lately?
I hope Fur is making big bucks off of these, because they are pissing me off.
Gun powder in all forms.
Kite string soaked in gas with a tight wrapped tube full of powder on the kite, they blow up real good at night.
50 to 100 feet up was best.
Lots of fun when I was 12.
WATCH should avoid making a specific banned list and move to a universal banned recommendation that can keep a head of new toy introduction. Some like – If it looks like fun don’t buy it.
Of course their kind of silly recommendations fails to teach kids self-confidence, and it also fails to teach kids there is a real world with real painful consequences if you do stupid stuff. The failure sends them down the road to Snowflakeland.
http://www.ambermaybe.com/2016/06/02/eight-reasons-you-should-let-your-kids-play-with-knives/ .