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Reasons Children of the 1970s Should All Be Dead (1 Viewer)

To Snow, Michelle’s death proved that the regulation didn’t protect kids. It didn't matter that they were sold as an adult game; if Jarts were in a home and children were allowed to play with them or could still get access to them, he thought, accidents would happen. He wanted the ban back in place and began lobbying public officials with phone calls and letters telling his story.
I wonder what other products this may apply to.

 
  • Kill the kid with the ball. 8-10 kids in a field with a football. When you had the ball, the others tried to basically murder you. No winning at this one.
So that's what other people call it.
We called it Fumble Rumble
Fumblitis or Smear the Queer
The correct name of this game is "Kill the Carrier".
This one too. In fact, it was probably more popular than fumble rumble now that I think about it.

 
  • Kill the kid with the ball. 8-10 kids in a field with a football. When you had the ball, the others tried to basically murder you. No winning at this one.
So that's what other people call it.
We called it Fumble Rumble
Fumblitis or Smear the Queer
The correct name of this game is "Kill the Carrier".
This one too. In fact, it was probably more popular than fumble rumble now that I think about it.
Fumble Rumble I can get behind. StQ isn't ideal, but it has to have a name that chants nicely.

 
To Snow, Michelle’s death proved that the regulation didn’t protect kids. It didn't matter that they were sold as an adult game; if Jarts were in a home and children were allowed to play with them or could still get access to them, he thought, accidents would happen. He wanted the ban back in place and began lobbying public officials with phone calls and letters telling his story.
I wonder what other products this may apply to.
Plenty, I imagine. I think the broader point is that the vast majority of us who grew up in those times just got lucky while a small minority did not. I can understand why a parent would take a "If I can spare even one family from suffering the tragedy I suffered then it will be worth it" mentality.

Over a period of eight years, lawn darts had sent 6,100 people to the emergency room. 81% of those cases involved children 15 or younger, and half of those were 10 or younger. The majority of injuries were to the head, face, eyes or ears, and many had led to permanent injury or disability.
 
To Snow, Michelle’s death proved that the regulation didn’t protect kids. It didn't matter that they were sold as an adult game; if Jarts were in a home and children were allowed to play with them or could still get access to them, he thought, accidents would happen. He wanted the ban back in place and began lobbying public officials with phone calls and letters telling his story.
I wonder what other products this may apply to.
Plenty, I imagine. I think the broader point is that the vast majority of us who grew up in those times just got lucky while a small minority did not. I can understand why a parent would take a "If I can spare even one family from suffering the tragedy I suffered then it will be worth it" mentality.

Over a period of eight years, lawn darts had sent 6,100 people to the emergency room. 81% of those cases involved children 15 or younger, and half of those were 10 or younger. The majority of injuries were to the head, face, eyes or ears, and many had led to permanent injury or disability.
I was thinking of a specific deadly product that kills and maims children every day in this country. Much more than Jarts ever did.

 
To Snow, Michelle’s death proved that the regulation didn’t protect kids. It didn't matter that they were sold as an adult game; if Jarts were in a home and children were allowed to play with them or could still get access to them, he thought, accidents would happen. He wanted the ban back in place and began lobbying public officials with phone calls and letters telling his story.
I wonder what other products this may apply to.
Plenty, I imagine. I think the broader point is that the vast majority of us who grew up in those times just got lucky while a small minority did not. I can understand why a parent would take a "If I can spare even one family from suffering the tragedy I suffered then it will be worth it" mentality.

Over a period of eight years, lawn darts had sent 6,100 people to the emergency room. 81% of those cases involved children 15 or younger, and half of those were 10 or younger. The majority of injuries were to the head, face, eyes or ears, and many had led to permanent injury or disability.
I was thinking of a specific deadly product that kills and maims children every day in this country. Much more than Jarts ever did.
The Bag O' Glass?

 
I grew up in the 80's and remember that summer days consisted of riding around town on a bike with friends, no helmets, and our parents having no idea where we were headed.
Me, too.

Of course, I also remember summer days consisting of going back and forth between my own house (Apple II) and my friends (Atari 2600) and playing video games all day. Something tells me that I probably overestimate the amount of time I spent running around the neighborhood, exploring the woods, and the other active stuff.

 
To Snow, Michelle’s death proved that the regulation didn’t protect kids. It didn't matter that they were sold as an adult game; if Jarts were in a home and children were allowed to play with them or could still get access to them, he thought, accidents would happen. He wanted the ban back in place and began lobbying public officials with phone calls and letters telling his story.
I wonder what other products this may apply to.
Plenty, I imagine. I think the broader point is that the vast majority of us who grew up in those times just got lucky while a small minority did not. I can understand why a parent would take a "If I can spare even one family from suffering the tragedy I suffered then it will be worth it" mentality.

Over a period of eight years, lawn darts had sent 6,100 people to the emergency room. 81% of those cases involved children 15 or younger, and half of those were 10 or younger. The majority of injuries were to the head, face, eyes or ears, and many had led to permanent injury or disability.
I was thinking of a specific deadly product that kills and maims children every day in this country. Much more than Jarts ever did.
The Bag O' Glass?
I thought it would be the "Lil' Tykes Incinerator Junior kit"

 
To Snow, Michelle’s death proved that the regulation didn’t protect kids. It didn't matter that they were sold as an adult game; if Jarts were in a home and children were allowed to play with them or could still get access to them, he thought, accidents would happen. He wanted the ban back in place and began lobbying public officials with phone calls and letters telling his story.
I wonder what other products this may apply to.
Plenty, I imagine. I think the broader point is that the vast majority of us who grew up in those times just got lucky while a small minority did not. I can understand why a parent would take a "If I can spare even one family from suffering the tragedy I suffered then it will be worth it" mentality.

Over a period of eight years, lawn darts had sent 6,100 people to the emergency room. 81% of those cases involved children 15 or younger, and half of those were 10 or younger. The majority of injuries were to the head, face, eyes or ears, and many had led to permanent injury or disability.
I was thinking of a specific deadly product that kills and maims children every day in this country. Much more than Jarts ever did.
The Bag O' Glass?
I thought it would be the "Lil' Tykes Incinerator Junior kit"
Johnny Human Torch

 
Red Rover (red rover, red rover, send Scotty right over)... can't imagine that game flies any more.
I remember playing this a ton as a kid. One time we did this at a neighbors place during a party and moved the line close to the garage so we could see better in the dark. A kid came charging toward the line and right before he crashed into it the two kids there let go of their hands and just let him pass through. The kid running had put his arms up and couldn't stop in time - he careened right into the back end of the car in the garage, slicing his head open on the license plate.

 
  • Kill the kid with the ball. 8-10 kids in a field with a football. When you had the ball, the others tried to basically murder you. No winning at this one.
So that's what other people call it.
We called it Fumble Rumble
Fumblitis or Smear the Queer
The correct name of this game is "Kill the Carrier".
This one too. In fact, it was probably more popular than fumble rumble now that I think about it.
Fumble Rumble I can get behind. StQ isn't ideal, but it has to have a name that chants nicely.
This game survived well into the 90's as I played this growing up too.

 
To Snow, Michelles death proved that the regulation didnt protect kids. It didn't matter that they were sold as an adult game; if Jarts were in a home and children were allowed to play with them or could still get access to them, he thought, accidents would happen. He wanted the ban back in place and began lobbying public officials with phone calls and letters telling his story.
I wonder what other products this may apply to.
Plenty, I imagine. I think the broader point is that the vast majority of us who grew up in those times just got lucky while a small minority did not. I can understand why a parent would take a "If I can spare even one family from suffering the tragedy I suffered then it will be worth it" mentality.
Over a period of eight years, lawn darts had sent 6,100 people to the emergency room. 81% of those cases involved children 15 or younger, and half of those were 10 or younger. The majority of injuries were to the head, face, eyes or ears, and many had led to permanent injury or disability.
I hit another kid with a Jart when I was about 10 or so. I don't remember exactly how old I was, but I didn't throw it too high. The stupid kid ran across the lawn into the area we were playing and it hit him right in the base of the neck. Dropped him like a ton of bricks. Luckily it only scraped off some skin and made a bruise.

 
Kids don't get the beatings they did in the 70s. Watched my four older brothers get beat with a belt while they had to put their hands up on the wall. Might have been a scene from Roots if we weren't a white family. Could not begin to count the number times I received beatings from my older brothers. He'll older kids on the block felt it was their right and duty to beat all the younger kids. A babysitter let me roll down the stairs in a roll up bed mattress resulting in a nice concussion which of course I immediately went to sleep with.

 
To Snow, Michelle’s death proved that the regulation didn’t protect kids. It didn't matter that they were sold as an adult game; if Jarts were in a home and children were allowed to play with them or could still get access to them, he thought, accidents would happen. He wanted the ban back in place and began lobbying public officials with phone calls and letters telling his story.
I wonder what other products this may apply to.
Plenty, I imagine. I think the broader point is that the vast majority of us who grew up in those times just got lucky while a small minority did not. I can understand why a parent would take a "If I can spare even one family from suffering the tragedy I suffered then it will be worth it" mentality.

Over a period of eight years, lawn darts had sent 6,100 people to the emergency room. 81% of those cases involved children 15 or younger, and half of those were 10 or younger. The majority of injuries were to the head, face, eyes or ears, and many had led to permanent injury or disability.
I was thinking of a specific deadly product that kills and maims children every day in this country. Much more than Jarts ever did.
Guns?

 
To Snow, Michelle’s death proved that the regulation didn’t protect kids. It didn't matter that they were sold as an adult game; if Jarts were in a home and children were allowed to play with them or could still get access to them, he thought, accidents would happen. He wanted the ban back in place and began lobbying public officials with phone calls and letters telling his story.
I wonder what other products this may apply to.
Plenty, I imagine. I think the broader point is that the vast majority of us who grew up in those times just got lucky while a small minority did not. I can understand why a parent would take a "If I can spare even one family from suffering the tragedy I suffered then it will be worth it" mentality.

Over a period of eight years, lawn darts had sent 6,100 people to the emergency room. 81% of those cases involved children 15 or younger, and half of those were 10 or younger. The majority of injuries were to the head, face, eyes or ears, and many had led to permanent injury or disability.
I was thinking of a specific deadly product that kills and maims children every day in this country. Much more than Jarts ever did.
Guns?
Pretty much. Although the Johnny Human Torch was funnier.

 
We played chicken tag. It is what it sounds like. The person that is it chases everyone with a live chicken. Held by the body, trapping the wings to its side, feet away from them. You "tagged" the person by throwing the chicken at them. If the chicken stuck to them they were it.
:lmao:

This is winning the thread so far.

 
NCCommish said:
Chaka said:
To Snow, Michelle’s death proved that the regulation didn’t protect kids. It didn't matter that they were sold as an adult game; if Jarts were in a home and children were allowed to play with them or could still get access to them, he thought, accidents would happen. He wanted the ban back in place and began lobbying public officials with phone calls and letters telling his story.
I wonder what other products this may apply to.
Plenty, I imagine. I think the broader point is that the vast majority of us who grew up in those times just got lucky while a small minority did not. I can understand why a parent would take a "If I can spare even one family from suffering the tragedy I suffered then it will be worth it" mentality.

Over a period of eight years, lawn darts had sent 6,100 people to the emergency room. 81% of those cases involved children 15 or younger, and half of those were 10 or younger. The majority of injuries were to the head, face, eyes or ears, and many had led to permanent injury or disability.
I was thinking of a specific deadly product that kills and maims children every day in this country. Much more than Jarts ever did.
Guns?
Pretty much. Although the Johnny Human Torch was funnier.
Agreed, that is an all time classic bit. I thought you may have been leaning towards bicycles which seems more in line with the topic of the thread.

I would talk about my feelings on guns here but I don't want to derail this thread entirely. Check any of the multitude of other gun threads and I am sure my opinions will be quite clear on that issue.

 
Just think of all the stories our kids will be telling years from now about how they survived playing with Buckyballs.

 
making Chinese stars in metal shop class and throwing them at each other.. every once in a while one 'stuck'.. ouch

 
NCCommish said:
Chaka said:
To Snow, Michelle’s death proved that the regulation didn’t protect kids. It didn't matter that they were sold as an adult game; if Jarts were in a home and children were allowed to play with them or could still get access to them, he thought, accidents would happen. He wanted the ban back in place and began lobbying public officials with phone calls and letters telling his story.
I wonder what other products this may apply to.
Plenty, I imagine. I think the broader point is that the vast majority of us who grew up in those times just got lucky while a small minority did not. I can understand why a parent would take a "If I can spare even one family from suffering the tragedy I suffered then it will be worth it" mentality.

Over a period of eight years, lawn darts had sent 6,100 people to the emergency room. 81% of those cases involved children 15 or younger, and half of those were 10 or younger. The majority of injuries were to the head, face, eyes or ears, and many had led to permanent injury or disability.
I was thinking of a specific deadly product that kills and maims children every day in this country. Much more than Jarts ever did.
Guns?
Pretty much. Although the Johnny Human Torch was funnier.
Agreed, that is an all time classic bit. I thought you may have been leaning towards bicycles which seems more in line with the topic of the thread.

I would talk about my feelings on guns here but I don't want to derail this thread entirely. Check any of the multitude of other gun threads and I am sure my opinions will be quite clear on that issue.
Bikes is a good one the numbers are older but you are looking at about 300 kids a year killed on their bikes. Most of those accidents due to the bicyclists behavior.. And yeah I am good without the other tangent.

 
We played chicken tag. It is what it sounds like. The person that is it chases everyone with a live chicken. Held by the body, trapping the wings to its side, feet away from them. You "tagged" the person by throwing the chicken at them. If the chicken stuck to them they were it.
We played this all the time. Some times we used cats or squirels though because pa did not like us using his chickens.


 
Gr00vus said:
We played chicken tag. It is what it sounds like. The person that is it chases everyone with a live chicken. Held by the body, trapping the wings to its side, feet away from them. You "tagged" the person by throwing the chicken at them. If the chicken stuck to them they were it.
:lmao:

This is winning the thread so far.
:lmao:

completely missed that.

 
Dad was a sheet metal mechanic and our late 70's Nova was one of the first cars to have the "ding" that wouldn't go off until you clicked the seat belts. He made dummy buckles to snap in the receivers so the car would stop dinging without having to put on your seat belts. :thumbup:

Shortly after learning to ride a bike I was zipping down the middle of the steep road by our house with my dad following behind. Helmet? Hell no, not even a shirt, looking back dad was yelling that I was missing the turn so I turned too fast and too sharp and got the worst road rash ever.

Another vote for:

tennis ball cannons

sling shots

bb guns

fireworks and home made explosives

water wienies

model rockets

homemade bike ramps

go garts

 
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Dad was a sheet metal mechanic and our late 70's Nova was one of the first cars to have the "ding" that wouldn't go off until you clicked the seat belts. He made dummy buckles to snap in the receivers so the car would stop dinging without having to put on your seat belts. :thumbup:
:thumbup: My dad did this too.

Although he wasn't a sheet metal mechanic, he just cut the seat belt out and just stuck the buckle in the receiver, problem solved. :drive:

 
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Dad was a sheet metal mechanic and our late 70's Nova was one of the first cars to have the "ding" that wouldn't go off until you clicked the seat belts. He made dummy buckles to snap in the receivers so the car would stop dinging without having to put on your seat belts. :thumbup:
:thumbup: My dad did this too.

Although he wasn't a sheet metal mechanic, he just cut the seat belt out and just stuck the buckle in the receiver, problem solved. :drive:
:lol:

Pitfall!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 
There were few if any safety police in the 70s to send us weekly safety notices to get our cars repaired to safely fix excess corrosion or fatigue on some safety part. We should all be dead. Luckily we have millions of safety police now to constantly watch our safety on all matters unsafe so we're all safe now.

 
To Snow, Michelle’s death proved that the regulation didn’t protect kids. It didn't matter that they were sold as an adult game; if Jarts were in a home and children were allowed to play with them or could still get access to them, he thought, accidents would happen. He wanted the ban back in place and began lobbying public officials with phone calls and letters telling his story.
I wonder what other products this may apply to.
Plenty, I imagine. I think the broader point is that the vast majority of us who grew up in those times just got lucky while a small minority did not. I can understand why a parent would take a "If I can spare even one family from suffering the tragedy I suffered then it will be worth it" mentality.

Over a period of eight years, lawn darts had sent 6,100 people to the emergency room. 81% of those cases involved children 15 or younger, and half of those were 10 or younger. The majority of injuries were to the head, face, eyes or ears, and many had led to permanent injury or disability.
I was thinking of a specific deadly product that kills and maims children every day in this country. Much more than Jarts ever did.
The Bag O' Glass?
https://screen.yahoo.com/bag-glass-000000237.html

 
During the height of mosquito season the county would send fogger trucks out. Tthey sprayed a DDT fog which was reminiscent of the smoke tanks one would see in war movies. Naturally we rode our bikes, helmetless, through the toxic fog using it to disguise our whereabouts from our friends and the occasional motorist.

 
During the height of mosquito season the county would send fogger trucks out. Tthey sprayed a DDT fog which was reminiscent of the smoke tanks one would see in war movies. Naturally we rode our bikes, helmetless, through the toxic fog using it to disguise our whereabouts from our friends and the occasional motorist.
I remember these. But even as a kid I was smarter than that.

 
During the height of mosquito season the county would send fogger trucks out. Tthey sprayed a DDT fog which was reminiscent of the smoke tanks one would see in war movies. Naturally we rode our bikes, helmetless, through the toxic fog using it to disguise our whereabouts from our friends and the occasional motorist.
I remember these. But even as a kid I was smarter than that.
Pretty much everybody in the universe is smarter than I was, and am.

 
During the height of mosquito season the county would send fogger trucks out. Tthey sprayed a DDT fog which was reminiscent of the smoke tanks one would see in war movies. Naturally we rode our bikes, helmetless, through the toxic fog using it to disguise our whereabouts from our friends and the occasional motorist.
I remember these. But even as a kid I was smarter than that.
Pretty much everybody in the universe is smarter than I was, and am.
It wasn't just you. I saw kids do it all the time.

 
During the height of mosquito season the county would send fogger trucks out. Tthey sprayed a DDT fog which was reminiscent of the smoke tanks one would see in war movies. Naturally we rode our bikes, helmetless, through the toxic fog using it to disguise our whereabouts from our friends and the occasional motorist.
I remember these. But even as a kid I was smarter than that.
Pretty much everybody in the universe is smarter than I was, and am.
It wasn't just you. I saw kids do it all the time.
You knew better and didn't stop them? ####### monster.
 
During the height of mosquito season the county would send fogger trucks out. Tthey sprayed a DDT fog which was reminiscent of the smoke tanks one would see in war movies. Naturally we rode our bikes, helmetless, through the toxic fog using it to disguise our whereabouts from our friends and the occasional motorist.
I lived in the country. We had planes fly over and spray everything for Gypsy Moths. Everything.

 
During the height of mosquito season the county would send fogger trucks out. Tthey sprayed a DDT fog which was reminiscent of the smoke tanks one would see in war movies. Naturally we rode our bikes, helmetless, through the toxic fog using it to disguise our whereabouts from our friends and the occasional motorist.
I remember these. But even as a kid I was smarter than that.
Pretty much everybody in the universe is smarter than I was, and am.
It wasn't just you. I saw kids do it all the time.
You knew better and didn't stop them? ####### monster.
I prefer to think of it as macro-evolution in process. Removing the propensity to breath poison is good for the overall gene pool.

 
During the height of mosquito season the county would send fogger trucks out. Tthey sprayed a DDT fog which was reminiscent of the smoke tanks one would see in war movies. Naturally we rode our bikes, helmetless, through the toxic fog using it to disguise our whereabouts from our friends and the occasional motorist.
I remember these. But even as a kid I was smarter than that.
Pretty much everybody in the universe is smarter than I was, and am.
It wasn't just you. I saw kids do it all the time.
You knew better and didn't stop them? ####### monster.
I prefer to think of it as macro-evolution in process. Removing the propensity to breath poison is good for the overall gene pool.
Well in that case...
 

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