• We’re currently investigating an issue related to the forum theme and styling that is impacting page layout and visual formatting. The problem has been identified, and we are actively working on a resolution. There is no impact to user data or functionality, this is strictly a front-end display issue. We’ll post an update once the fix has been deployed. Thanks for your patience while we get this sorted.

Most dangerous toy you owned as a child

Page 2 - Seeking answers? Join the AnandTech community: where nearly half-a-million members share solutions and discuss the latest tech.
dawp said:
click - clack

user-image-1185440555.jpg


some were made of glass but the ones i had were plastic.

http://www.inthe80s.com/toys/clickclacks0.shtml

looks like you can still buy them, they have vintage one here:
http://www.timewarptoys.com/clackers.htm
Click to expand...
I loved mine, we even brought them to school to drive the teachers nuts. The fun lasted until stories about them causing eye injuries caused my folks to throw them out.

My other dangerous toy was my chemistry set, this was back in the old days when they actually came with fun chemicals & alcohol burners.
 
Most dangerous would probably be that wood burning thing that was little more than a soldering iron. Must have burnt myself half a dozen times.

Jarts: not dangerous unless you have an IQ well under 100 - i.e. you think that jumping on a trampoline while throwing the jart vertically is a great idea.
 
3" lockblade. Seems like bb guns are popular to say they're "dangerous", so I'll add my daisy bb gun. But my bb gun wasn't nearly as dangerous as my crossman air pellet rifle. My 10" fresnel lens probably should rank up there as well.


dawp said:
click - clack

user-image-1185440555.jpg


some were made of glass but the ones i had were plastic.

http://www.inthe80s.com/toys/clickclacks0.shtml

looks like you can still buy them, they have vintage one here:
http://www.timewarptoys.com/clackers.htm
Click to expand...
Leave your anal beads out of this.
 
BB guns and pellet guns. We used to go hunt crawdads in the local streams as kids. Nowadays, if you saw a couple of kids walking down the road with BB guns, you'd probably have a major international incident, suspensions from school, and laws being proposed in Congress.
 
dennilfloss said:
Slingshot.
Click to expand...

Yeah I tried one (a real one made of antler) and the bands were too stiff for me to pull back. Had a sharp piece of slate (yes a flat rock!) in the pouch and pulled it best I could. I guess it was good that I could not pull it back too far as that rock grazed my thumb really nice and I needed seven stitches. 😱

Lawn darts were awesome!

Now we have horse shoes. Those can knock you out but usually don't poke a hole in your head!
 
We had jarts and wrist rockets (sling shots).

Coolest though was giant tinker toys. You could make some cool forts and stuff with them but the heavy plastic posts made for some awesome sword fights. You could do some real damage with those things, think pvc piping but thicker and heavier. Hehe, they probably don't sell them any more because they cracked a few skulls.

And of course, homemade bombs from fireworks and estes rocket motors if those count as toys. I think my brother sent himself to the hospital trying to light one of those off.
 
humm, access to dangerous everyday items.

Add wood to a wood burning boiler
add wood to a wooden stove
lighter fluid
glass 750ml bottles filled with pop or beer
car
Display window

It is truly a miracle I am alive
 
Jarts

Sling shot

Also used to buy a bag of those paper caps for cap guns and hit the entire thing with a hammer. They would all go up and catch the entire thing on fire. Great fun.
 
hmm
jarts (though you had to be a idiot to get hurt or hurt someone else with them)
more knives then i can count. once i earned it in boy scouts i had a knife on me all the time. my dad would get me new knives what seemed like every birthday and christmas
BB gun, .22 rifle (spent a lot of time rabbit and squirrel hunting)
mini bikes (got my first at 6 a 50 cc one)
 
Honestly - a Fluke Multimeter.

Oh and my vacuum tube based ham radio. 600V bias on those. Should have never let a 12 yr old take it apart. I also shouldn't have been allowed to change oil at that age too, but my mom let me do it. Nor should I have had the TV apart to peak the tuner and sharpen the screen a bit more.
 
probably a wooden sword that my grandpa made me.

it was wood, but he filed the edge to be pretty sharp... then one night, I accidentally left it at my cousin's and my uncle sanded down the point 😡
 
Away said:
Pump action pellet rifle.
Click to expand...

Same here. Still have it. I started with a spring-powered BB pistol though. I was always shooting lightbulbs, bottles, boxes, etc in the backyard. And yes there were houses on all sides.

Also I burned stuff (myself) with a 8.5"x11" fresnel lens and ignited mixtures potassium nitrate & sugar for fun and profit.

In high school my friends and I would bring incendiary chemicals to school and set them off out back during breaks. Even crawled inside a large storm-drain pipe and foolishly tossed a molotov cocktail. Oops.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Back
Top