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Most dangerous toy you owned as a child

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Back when I was a kid, we had Ninja mail order magazines (no really!)...

We purchases some things from the magazine. Back then they had this thing called COD... As 8 years old, we'd get our christmas money and order. Must have been funny taking our calls. We purchased a few Ninja Stars (thats what we called them), and we had throwing spikes.

I remember when we got the throwing spikes (they were basically iron pencils made to be sharp and fly straight) we found a this piece of styrofoam about 6 inchs thick or so, and about 4x4 feet. We didn't have anybody to hold it up, so I'd sit behind it while the other kid would throw at it. Long story short, I had a throwing spike stuck about an inch into my thigh...

Oh, and we'd have a blow gun. We found out if you had a certain plastic tube, one from a tent I believe. A certain thing product called a thumb tack, it would fit perfectly. We could blow the thing about 100 feet with our blow gun. That made for interesting times.
 
oh I just remembered. We used to pull out the core of Bic ball pens, melt the plastic end where the tip used to be and attach a pin to it. Then launch these things using rubber band.


All done in school :biggrin:
 
ussfletcher said:
dixy said:
When I was 10 or less....

DMG & D20
cat
bbgun
horse
tree
legs
cinder blocks
hammer
flash light
marijuana
pool
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My parents where stoners, it was all like:

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The second hand pot smoke made me a very serious kid as I was getting anti-stoned (paradoxical effect in kids); combined with my dad's 150 military measured IQ and you have a lot of the reason I say crazy shit on forums today.

ZOOYUKA said:
Bag O Glass
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lalwz:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/115713/saturday-night-live-irwin-mainway

first thing I thought of when I read the thread title.

My condolences on your childhood but that last was way inappropriate.
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Not really a toy, but I remember a really stupid game I played with a friend of mine (think we were about 12-13 at the time).

Essentially what you would do is wear jeans, pour lighter fluid on your jeans while you're siting down, and then set it on fire. What happens if you just use a relatively small amount is that you get cool flames, and nothing else.
If you use a larger amount, which we obviously did after a while, it gets fairly hot, and I remember one time having to strip off my pants in a hurry (for obvious reasons).

Luckily I didn't get much of a burn (1st degree only), and the pants weren't visibly damaged, but it was still the last time I ever played that game.
 
I didn't have dangerous toys.
I had access to a slingshot with steel bullets and arm support, but I couldn't shoot it and the elastic just broke after a while.
I used to set stuff on fire with a magnyfing lens.
Also the garden was a steep mountain, it was one of those places where you grow raisin for wine (I don't remember the word), but it was crumbling.
 
By todays standards pretty much every toy I had as a kid would be considered dangerous. Big steel Tonka trucks, Daisy BB rifle, air rifles, cap guns and caps, Vac-U-Forms, and even a Jensen steam engine and of course Jarts just to name a few.
 
I remember once I broke my wrist, when I was like 13, after busting the sickest 180 flip off a tall 4 stair. I wasn't paying attention and went off the curb awkward, fell and broke it. Anyways, my mom refused to believe it was broken and it was like 1 1/2 - 2 weeks before I went to the doctors to have them confirm it. That was like the 3rd time I broke one of my wrists.
 
Linflas said:
By todays standards pretty much every toy I had as a kid would be considered dangerous. Big steel Tonka trucks, Daisy BB rifle, air rifles, cap guns and caps, Vac-U-Forms, and even a Jensen steam engine and of course Jarts just to name a few.
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those big tonka trucks were insane. me and my cousin would sit on them and ride them down the driveway. they were great. until he threw one of the tires at me (you could "change" the tires) and cut my forehead open heh.

those cap guns with the caps were great. we would put a bunch together and blow stuff up. hmm come to think of it i havent seen those in the stores for years.
 
waggy said:
those big tonka trucks were insane. me and my cousin would sit on them and ride them down the driveway. they were great. until he threw one of the tires at me (you could "change" the tires) and cut my forehead open heh.

those cap guns with the caps were great. we would put a bunch together and blow stuff up. hmm come to think of it i havent seen those in the stores for years.
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we would try to use them as skates or at least convince others to so we could watch them eat crap.
 
Reading the posts and having had/done most of them, excluding the pot and the .50 cal, I'm surprised there are people left at all.

Thank you gubment for protecting me.:wub:

Now kids are just fat, lazy tards, ftl.
 
my bmx bike.

i broke more bones, shattered more joints, and ruined more than anything on that damn bike.

but then again, i didn't ride like most people did, i was generally the one who had no problem attempting things that would result is sheer pain.
 
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