Comments on: Epic Win: Lawn Jarts

By: llc

llc — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:35:17 +0000

hazardous toy, for sure.

By: Xero

Xero — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:34:50 +0000

I have a small portion of my forehead missing from those awesome toys

By: Ai Nan

Ai Nan — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:53:11 +0000

I still have the old, illegal ones, and no, they’re not for sale.

By: Darwin

Darwin — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 01:01:12 +0000

Wow, your brother is the epic fail, Jarts are FTW

By: susi

susi — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 17:53:47 +0000

they have friggin plastic ones now waaaaaaaaaaaaay lerss fun but the same basic consept

By: Destinii Haruya

Destinii Haruya — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 14:58:49 +0000

Agreed.

By: Destinii Haruya

Destinii Haruya — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 14:58:14 +0000

They aren’t banned in my country! Anyone want a set? Black market lawn darts, anyone?

By: Stup1dG33kz

Stup1dG33kz — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:30:55 +0000

DarWIN!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:22:12 +0000

Thank Youhttp://www.outdoor-games.us

By: csm

csm — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:20:06 +0000

My cousin and I played catch with them a couple of times, but that was after we were adults (well maybe not mentally.)

By: Carpe_Mofo

Carpe_Mofo — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 16:24:13 +0000

I actually know a little girl that has a glass eye because of lawn darts. When I was a kid though I thought they were awesome. Nothing wrong with Lawn darts really, it should just be more a game for adults.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 20:40:53 +0000

yoo sucks

By: sarah

sarah — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:55:09 +0000

this actually an epic fail necasue my brother had a serious head injury because of one so no lawn darts are increduably serious and fatal and not a toy

By: cannibalkiid

cannibalkiid — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:30:59 +0000

hahahah you’re so right.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 19:12:52 +0000

I’m astonished at all the people reporting injuries here. Either you were stupid kids, or you had stupid parents!

By: hope

hope — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 07:57:37 +0000

my grandmother still has these.. me and my sister played with them when we were like 10 and 8… cept we were frickin smart and both stood on the same flippin side so we wouldnt hit eachother…

By: mc

mc — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 08:13:08 +0000

NICE ;D

By: someToast

someToast — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:00:51 +0000

But as a bonus, you can levitate spaceships out of swamps.

By: tweek9980

tweek9980 — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 09:07:55 +0000

Yard Darts were so damn fun. I would bu these now if i could find them. Still better than throwing iron or steel horse shoes at a pole.

By: Kittah!

Kittah! — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:52:00 +0000

NORTH AMERICA FAIL

Screw a country that bans lawn darts but has guns. Maybe A. people simply be more careful and B. USA STOPS FREAKING SUCKING.

COUNTRY FAIL

By: Taubin

Taubin — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 08:55:43 +0000

Who says he *missed*

By: Beki

Beki — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 14:29:11 +0000

I got hit in the head with one of these when I was like 4!!! My brother who was like 6 was messing with them! lol! No serious damage was cause, well depends on what you consider serious, lol!

By: Ouch

Ouch — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:52:08 +0000

Smart enough to have everyone at one end? Too funny. My family used to play while drinking and a bunch of kids running around. Who would have thought to move. Well maybe they thought about it for a second while I was on my way to the hospital to have stitches put in my ankle. But, I’m sure they forgot about it pretty quickly and continued the game and the drinking.

By: Claire

Claire — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 18:27:35 +0000

That would be awesome, except these Jarts are (intentionally!) described as “fantabulous.” Therefore, whomever wrote that should be led to a field and pelted with original jarts until dead or at least apologetic.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 21:50:18 +0000

Pretty sure there’s still a box of these in my parents’ garage. Good times.

By: wikked

wikked — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 14:43:47 +0000

I played with these as a kid a lot and we never had any injuries from it. And let me tell you, my uncles were IDIOTS!! I’m talking shoot each other with BBguns repeatedly to see which one gives up first.

These were not that dangerous to use if you had at least a minimum of common sense.

By: Sirpeppy

Sirpeppy — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 04:43:17 +0000

Ha Ha! My family still has some of these! (Yes, I realize they’re illegal to SELL, but we’re not selling them are we?)

I love playing with them and have never been hurt, I don’t know what all of the fuss is about. JK JK!! Sheesh! I realize they’re dangerous and we never play with little’uns. I still think they’re fun though, and sometimes things are worth the risk, ya know?

I mean seriously people, how many more people have DIED doing something like hang-gliding or bungee-jumping???

Anywhoo, they’re still alive and kickin’ at my house!

By: JPFR

JPFR — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 04:12:11 +0000

I knew I saw the redesign in a catalog.

http://www.youngexplorers.com/itemdy00.asp?T1=Y810084

Check out this link. And NO they are not Nerf Jarts.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:13:17 +0000

How did that happen? Were you not smart enough to have everybody come to the same end of the field before you started throwing?

By: power puff

power puff — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:01:47 +0000

that’s actually false, I took a history course and within 30 years of confederation as a country, Americans were commonly suing each other, over petty things and big things, but from what I understand it was as common or more than it is today, except we have more people so the problem appears exacerbated

By: Mickey Blue Eyes

Mickey Blue Eyes — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 15:58:04 +0000

Child coddling: FAIL
Parental supervision: FAIL

Darwin: WIN!

By: Shalindria

Shalindria — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:58:18 +0000

Where can I go to be willfully ignorant and stupid then?

By: Steaming Pile

Steaming Pile — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:47:02 +0000

Seriously, people. I hope all you backyard Darwinists meet a grisly death at the hands of a motorized open-reel lawnmower. It doesn’t require much effort or negligence to send one of those missiles off-course where it could hurt or maim someone. I find it a bit chilling that so many people at what is supposed to be a fun website can be so callous, willfully ignorant, and stupid. Shame on you all.

By: Steaming Pile

Steaming Pile — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:39:26 +0000

Uh, no. I was about ten at the time, and I was well out of the field of play, or at least I thought I was. I caught one on the ankle, and it friggin’ hurt. I might have sustained a hairline fracture or bone chip from the impact because it hurt for a couple of weeks. If you’re going to play with these things, you need to get ALL non-participants completely out of the back yard. Somebody, even if taking a wide berth around the playing area as I did, could end up a casualty, and that’s not exactly conducive to an enjoyable family weekend.

Horseshoes are at least heavy, and it would have required some effort to heave one as far off course as the lawn dart did that hit my ankle.

By: lolc

lolc — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:26:35 +0000

These were always marketed as an adult game. It said so on the box.

By: mojojojo

mojojojo — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:02:22 +0000

LOL. Those things were awsome. I’m going to ask my father if they’re still around the garage somewhere. My parents let me play with them. I never thought about them being “dangerous.” Of course, I usually played them by myself in the backyard and never had anyone to stab.

By: mojojojo

mojojojo — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:55:09 +0000

because people didn’t sue the heck out of each other until about then anyways.

By: sandylee

sandylee — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:28:17 +0000

Have you seen the scar on my cousin Mike’s foot? He still won’t let me live it down, 35 years later he’s showing it off at a family reunion. Love you Mike Miller.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:10:14 +0000

LMAO!

By: Leah

Leah — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:26:15 +0000

My brother hit me right below the eye with one in the late 80s. I have sinus problems because of all the scar tissue beneath my cheekbone. Kids have an easy enough time hurting themselves without hurling heavy, pointed projectiles at one another.

By: Groo

Groo — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:37:45 +0000

LOL, you’re absolutely right but I have a 40 year old scar in my right knee from where MY FATHER missed the target

By: Alexis

Alexis — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:19:03 +0000

When my husband, Eric, was around 10 years old, he was walking out of his door and onto the front porch. What he did NOT know was that his older brother, Mike, and his friend were directly across the street, throwing Jarts at the porch Eric was on to see if they could get them to stick. Yikes! Of course you know what happened. . . .
“My husband still has a small scar under his eye where the Jart entered his face. As his mother tells it, she took him to the ER, where they tested him/X-rayed/ you-name-it 10 ways from Sunday. Finally, like eight hours later (let’s remember, this is a TEN YEAR OLD WITH A GIANT DART STICKING OUT OF HIS FACE; his mother should be canonized) a doctor simply walked in, and, when neither Eric or mom were paying attention, POP! popped that sucker right out. It missed (I believe) his optic nerve by like a millimeter or two, and there are still bone fragments floating about in his head.

By: AKZombie

AKZombie — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:14:05 +0000

That’s all I could think of when I saw this post. The song will now be running through my head for the next week.

By: Nate

Nate — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:03:55 +0000

THAT’S HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!

By: Anon

Anon — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:46:54 +0000

Where can you get some new ones?

That way I can tell the sheriff they are not ‘weapons’, but ‘toys’

By: Anon

Anon — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:45:11 +0000

Darwin

By: Tamayo

Tamayo — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:46:56 +0000

Having been hit in the face with one of these at a 4th of July party (after they were banned, coincidentally) I really can’t speak to how they definitely shouldn’t get brought back…

And no, I did NOT throw it myself. Someone ELSE did, and I happened to be looking up. It hit me right on the edge my eyebrow… a few more millimeters and I’d be blinded in one eye.

By: Brenda

Brenda — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:43:14 +0000

Bring ‘em back.. survival of the fittest baby…

I wish we still had ours…

By: TigerEyes

TigerEyes — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:38:51 +0000

My brother got one of these in his leg when he was like five. He wasn’t even playing with them, but it was in 1999 or so. So just because they’re recalled doesn’t mean they’re gone. It TOTALLY ruined his vacation.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:28:50 +0000

My sister took one to the face as a kid. Almost caused her one eye to go blind.