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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 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]
The federal government banned lawn darts at the end of 1988 and recommended that existing sets be destroyed. ... What we know about the suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO's shooting death.
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]
Playing with Lawn Darts. Playing with lawn darts, or Jarts, was a common backyard activity that combined outdoor games with an element of skill and danger. Jarts was played by throwing large ...
Two new 1970s toys were public relations disasters. One of the toys was named Javelin Darts which were similar to the ancient Roman plumbata. On December 19, 1988, the Consumer Product Safety Commission banned lawn darts from sale in the United States due to their hazards as a flying projectile with a sharp metal point causing multiple deaths. [19]
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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)