Can your mind comprehend a more deadly toy than a weighted spear that kids hurl through the air like a missile? No one ever obeyed the actual manufacturer's rules, we just flung these damn things everywhere. As Radar puts it: "You threw them. They stuck where they landed. If they happened to land in your skull, well, then you should have moved."
I guess it's a good thing that kids are so much more protected these days. No one seemed to give a shit in the 70s. For example, I don't remember ever using a seat belt for the first twelve years of my life. Regarding Jarts, we can arrive at only one of two conclusions:
1) our parents were so naive that they actually thought a Javelin Dart would be safe
2) our parents wanted us dead
After roughly 6,700 emergency-room visits and the deaths of three children between 1978 and 1988, they finally outlawed Jarts on December 19, 1988. It needed to be banned, but a part of me is sad that kids today won't have the battle scars and Jart survival stories we had. Goodbye Jart - you were an impaling arrow of death, but I loved you anyway.
I guess it's a good thing that kids are so much more protected these days. No one seemed to give a shit in the 70s. For example, I don't remember ever using a seat belt for the first twelve years of my life. Regarding Jarts, we can arrive at only one of two conclusions:
1) our parents were so naive that they actually thought a Javelin Dart would be safe
2) our parents wanted us dead
After roughly 6,700 emergency-room visits and the deaths of three children between 1978 and 1988, they finally outlawed Jarts on December 19, 1988. It needed to be banned, but a part of me is sad that kids today won't have the battle scars and Jart survival stories we had. Goodbye Jart - you were an impaling arrow of death, but I loved you anyway.
