Hey #CoSo, what's the most dangerous toy you owned as a kid?
Most dangerous toy I owned? Probably either the Jarts (lawn darts), or Moon Shoes. The chemistry set and gas powered pogo stick weren't really safe either. Come to think of it, were our parents TRYING to kill us? 🤔
Jacks are basically caltrops, bb guns are actual weapons, and let's not forget about board games like Crossfire...
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@Heucuva8
Creepy Crawler set. Hot metal and toxic fumes. Lol
@MotherOfDragons @Heucuva8
Yeah, I had that "Thingmaker" for Creepy Crawlers, and a similar one for candy bugs. There was also a piston-operated one that melted plastic pellets and filled molds to make toy soldiers. Of course, you didn't have to buy the pellets; you could cut up all the disposable polypropylene and polyethylene containers if you didn't mind if your soldier was Parkay Margarine Yellow.
But the truly dangerous stuff was the carbon tetrachloride (used to kill insects when collecting), mercury, and scrap sheets of asbestos from building sites. Add that to the DDT and Chlordane that was just all over, and whatever shit was killing the fish in the water we waded in to do a fish-census project to prove how polluted the water was.
I don't have cancer yet, but I think they're just busy planning what's the weirdest-ass malignancy they can come up with.