The 10 Most Dangerous Toys of All Time 404
Ant writes "An article at the Radar lists the ten 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, the editors excluded BB guns, slingshots, throwing stars, and anything else actually intended to inflict harm." My favorite: 'Feed Me!' begged the packaging for 1996's Cabbage Patch Snacktime Kid. And much like the carnivorous Audrey II from Little Shop of Horrors, the adorable lineup of Cabbage Patch snack-dolls appeared at first to be harmless. They merely wanted a nibble--a carrot perhaps, or maybe some yummy pudding. They would stop chewing when snack time was done -- they promised. Then they chomped your child's finger off."
No Invisible Pedestrian Costume? (Score:2, Informative)
I don't see the Bag-O-Glass listed either. Another stimulating, wholesome toy.
Re:ohhhhhhh myyyyy Goddddd! (Score:1, Informative)
Are you completely ignorant about radiation or just retarded?
Needs chemistry lesson (Score:5, Informative)
Re:ohhhhhhh myyyyy Goddddd! (Score:2, Informative)
At close range on bare flesh you can break the top layer of skin, but the damage under such circumstances from, say, a paintball impact is even worse.
When I was a kid my friends and I use to use air-rifles the way kids now use Airsoft "weapons". Not a game went by without one of us having to have pellets extracted from subdermal layers!
By comparison Airsoft is way safer. Unless you point one at a cop. Then all bets are off...
Re:Pratchett's Hogfather (Score:2, Informative)
Sky One will be broadcasting a 2 part adaptation of Hogfather on the 17th and 18th of this month. Too bad I'm stuck in the US. I guess if the reviews are good, I'll buy the DVD.
Re:Cabbage Patch Finger Food (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Pratchett's Hogfather (Score:3, Informative)
Damn split up articles (Score:5, Informative)
1. Lawn Darts
2. Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab
3. Mini-Hammocks from EZ Sales
4. Snacktime Cabbage Patch Dolls
5. Sky Dancers
6. Bat Masterson Derringer Belt Gun
7. Creepy Crawlers
8. Johnny Reb Cannon
9. Battlestar Galactica Missile Launcher
10. Fisher-Price Power Wheels Motorcycle
So it seems they missed the latest threat:
The Nintendo Wii
- http://www.wiihaveaproblem.com/ [wiihaveaproblem.com]
Example injuries from that site:
- Girl Dislocates Knee While Playing with Wii [wiihaveaproblem.com]
- Attack on Girlfriend Proves Fatal to Boyfriend's Wii Privileges [wiihaveaproblem.com]
Re:ohhhhhhh myyyyy Goddddd! (Score:4, Informative)
NO, they couldn't. Even in those cool kits of old you wouldn't be able to come up with enough material to make a dirty bomb that actually mattered - you'd need several kilos of bad stuff (or stuff that was much more refined than anything that would have come in a kit like this).
Most people in this country (like yourself) haven't the slightest clue about radiation. They hear the word and instantly panic, all the while flying back and forth between their brick houses in Denver where and their wooden house in Miami. (One of these houses has three times the background radiation as the other. Which is it?)
As for this particular lab, I haven't been able to find the specs but I'll bet you a mod point that your average american smoke detector has a far greater intensity of ionizing radiation than anything that Gilbert put on the market. There are probably clocks out there with radium painted dials that are far more radioactive, not to mention all of the uranium oxide they used for dinnerware until production of the bomb in WWII dried up the supply. (The product line continues to this day, but they stopped using the radioactive glaze back in the 60s. Google up Fiestaware.)
In other words, back in the day, it was far more likely for somebody to visit Crate and Barrel to obtain enough materials for a dirty bomb than it was Toys R Us.
Re:ohhhhhhh myyyyy Goddddd! (Score:4, Informative)
You're thinking of Denis Leary's Merry F#$%n' Christmas Special [comedycentral.com]. I think it was on last year. They have some clips from the show on the Comedy Central site, but not the segment you're talking about.
Re:ohhhhhhh myyyyy Goddddd! (Score:3, Informative)
I pity the poor kids who don't learn this until too late.
Kids will take chances, me, I did, but by making mistakes is how we learn. Depriving your child from making mistakes is MORE dangerous. Better a BB gun than a 9mm Glock or an ounce of nail polish than 5 gallons of gasoline.
We know this child from being born to 16, his current age. He has never had a chemistry set, has never tossed a lawn dart, has never been scorched by a toy or played with tommy guns -- the parents are overly protective. They will buy him every computer game toy out there though. His friends swap him games, and killing 45 people in 3 minutes is now fun. He gets his violence from computer games without the pain.
He is dysfunctional socially inept dropout. No social skills that don't start and end with with kill, f'ck or a7it. Kicked out of school - had the cops over dozens of times for willful car theft and destruction of property multiple times. Doesn't even have bad friends. Truly a Nintendo/TV product.
Parents need to buy the lawn darts, site down and TEACH the kids to use them safely, TEACH them how to take a ski-doo out on their own... TEACH them the safe use of a firearm... and lock them up until they they are mature enough.
Some kids are mature enough to hunt on their own at 12, while others aren't mature enough at 80.
Re:ohhhhhhh myyyyy Goddddd! (Score:3, Informative)
Fucking sweet. I have to try that. First I need to get a sixpack. If you don't hear from me in 24 hours all I ask for is a moment of silence.