Saturday morning yard sale haul

[PSXer]

hilarious hockey bloopers: 25 cents

http://i.imgur.com/pQmbDtQ.jpg?1




dangerous lawn darts: $3

http://i.imgur.com/6SYiQ6U.jpg?1


can't wait to injure myself or a friend playing this game

[Glazer]

Don't you need a friend for that?

[PSXer]

now that I have a fun toy, people will want to be my friend

[Jaglavak]

It says outdoor game on the box, but really you can play it indoors too. You just have to use a more direct throw.

[Flying Saucerian]

And really understanding downstairs neighbors...

[pickle berry]

You wouldn't happen to have any Jurassic Park, DVDs, VHS or laserdiscs would you? I have a friend who collects those.

[JimNightshade]

I have an old home video tape - its a one of a kind and really rather rare.

It's yours for just 250 squids plus postage.

[Borborygmi]

Nice find on the lawn darts. I am not going to go through the trouble of looking around for a consensus price on a set but I bet they are worth a lot more than $3.00 and I bet that finding a set that includes the original box is a rarity.

The set I had as a kid is probably still in my parents' garage somewhere. Some of the plastic fins were broken from heavy use and taped up with varying degrees of success. Hope yours are in better shape, Xer. Great toy, and to my mind reasonably safe if you don't throw them at people or over houses.

[Jaglavak]

Originally Posted by Borborygmi

...if you don't throw them at people or over houses.

Huh? What else are you supposed to do with them?

[pickle berry]

Surprise buttsecks?

[-FX-]

David Snow, an aerospace engineer from Riverside, California, wasn’t even looking for lawn darts when he went shopping for party games in April 1987. He wanted a volleyball set, but all the department store had was volleyball in a combo pack with two other games. Whatever, he decided. He’d buy it, set up the volleyball net and leave the rest in the box in the garage.

His plan didn’t bear out. One Sunday afternoon soon after, his nine-year-old son and some of his neighborhood friends found the Jarts and began tossing them around in Snow’s backyard. One kid tossed his Jart too far and too high, sailing it over the backyard fence and into the front yard, where Snow’s daughter, seven-year-old Michelle, was playing with her dolls. The Jart came down right on her and, with what researchers estimate as 23,000 pounds of pressure per square inch, penetrated her skull. She collapsed, was rushed to the hospital, and was pronounced clinically dead three days later.

For weeks after, the Snows were overcome with grief. When David returned to work at Hughes Aircraft, he had a hard time adjusting. He sat in meetings listening to his co-workers talk about work things. Parts shortages. Budgets. Personnel issues. None of it seemed the least bit important anymore. His sadness gave way to anger, and he began a crusade. "I want to get these damned darts," he told The Los Angeles Times at the time. "These things killed my child. If I don't do anything, it's just a matter of time before someone else gets killed. I'm going to get them off the market. Whatever it takes."

[-FX-]

And he did.

Fuck the idiots of the world who would sell a kid a thermonuclear device if they could make a buck doing it.

[Jaglavak]

Hey kid! Wanna buy a boomerang?

[Roo]

From FX's article:

If you try to list Jarts on eBay, they’ll pull your auction, but it’s still possible to buy and sell them at flea markets and yard sales, out from under the eye of the CPSC. It’s also okay to buy and sell replacement parts to repair damaged lawn darts purchased before the ban.

That's amazing, PSXer. How do you keep doing this, taking a topic that looks so innocuous but that has a latent issue in it? Impressive.

[PSXer]

I didn't. I said in the op they are dangerous and could injure people

[Roo]

That they're dangerous seemed obvious to me. That they're banned except for resale in yard sales was surprising, and just happened to be the exception you fell under.

[PSXer]

I knew they were banned that's why I got them because I thought it might be a cool collector item.

and it's not like "they're banned except for resale in yard sales" it's more like "it's impossible to regulate what gets sold at yard sales"

[TBG]

Other than the $3 tag, that looks just like the set in my garage. You can have them when you pry them from my cold dead hands.

[Musicat]

Originally Posted by Jaglavak

Hey kid! Wanna buy a boomerang?

Those things are hard to get rid of.

[Glazer]

Just throw it away.

[pickle berry]

Boomerangs are more fun if you tape razor blades to them.