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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]
Between the mid-1980s and 1990s, at least a dozen children died after getting entangled. At least 10 manufacturers eventually joined together to recall 3 million mini hammocks in 1996.
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, metal-tipped darts through ...
60 Minutes, for the report "Mr. Snow Goes to Washington," which highlighted a campaign on the dangers of lawn darts: WHAS/Louisville: A Matter of Time: The Crisis in Kentucky Corrections: Public Affairs Television Inc. Bill Moyers' World of Ideas: WPLG-TV/Miami, FL
Lawn darts weren't banned because they might hurt someone - they were banned because they did. Multiple times. -- 203.214.40.120 ( talk ) 22:48, 28 October 2009 (UTC) [ reply ] I was just thinking fondly on the times we used to throw them over a house at each other, with the "receivers" calling out corrections like Fire Controllers for the ...
Wilson became one of the few players to have hit 240 on television during a visit to the dart board, by getting 3 darts in the quadruple 20, during his semi final victory over John Lowe. Wilson lost the final to Dennis Priestley. [3] Wilson reached the quarter-finals of the 1994 World Matchplay, [3] losing to eventual champion Larry Butler. [3]
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