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A package of lawn darts with metal tips. Lawn darts (also known as Javelin darts, jarts, lawn jarts, or yard darts) is a lawn game for two players or teams. A lawn dart set usually includes four large darts and two targets. The gameplay and objective are similar to those of both horseshoes and darts. The darts are typically 12 inches (30 cm) in ...
Lawn Darts. Lawn darts, or "jarts," proved so dangerous that they were ultimately banned. ... Burger King recalled 25 million of the balls and was later sued in at least one of the deaths ...
Lawn darts are large, weighted darts intended to be tossed underhand towards a horizontal ground target. On 19 December 1988, all lawn darts were banned from sale in the United States by the Consumer Product Safety Commission after they were responsible for the deaths of three children since 1970. [37] In 1989, they were also banned in Canada. [38]
Connected narratives include ease of violence, [83] [84] the intended purpose, [57] death by suicide, accidental deaths, a ban on lawn darts, and firearm deaths in other developed countries among others.
I added the globalize/US tag to the "safety and bans" section because the current content brings to mind some unanswered questions: Is the death toll of lawn darts comparable in the rest of the world, and have bans been proposed or implemented anywhere outside of US and Canada? ~ booyabazooka 05:06, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
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The pilots did refer to it, in jest, as the "Aluminium Death Tube", "The Lawn Dart" and "The Flying Phallus" but generally called it the 104 (one oh four) or the Starfighter. [11] Low level attack runs in the CF-104 were done visually at 100 feet AGL and at speeds up to 600 km. Low level evasive maneuvers could increase speeds to supersonic. [13]
Lawn darts (also called yard darts and garden darts) is an outdoor game, with gameplay and objective similar to horseshoes, in that the darts are thrown to land in a circle target on the ground. The darts are similar to the ancient Roman thrown weapon plumbata. For a brand named Jarts, the darts weighed about 1/4 pound, were 12 inches long, and ...