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Charlie Stross
@cstross@wandering.shop  ·  activity timestamp 11 hours ago

@oddhack WTF are Jarts?

JdeBP
@JdeBP@mastodon.scot replied  ·  activity timestamp 11 hours ago

@cstross

We call them "garden darts" or "lawn darts" here in the U.K..

Almost 60 years ago there was a U.S.A. children's toy brand named "Javelin Darts", #Hasbro's original name. Other companies got in on the act, too.

You can probably guess what's coming from the name. They had sharp metal spikes for noses instead of the soft wide noses that they have to have today.

Several thousand children were injured and some died.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-09-27-mn-10632-story.html

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Los Angeles Times

Demands Ban on Lawn Darts : Daughter's Death Spurs a Father's Sad Crusade

David Snow didn't even want lawn darts when he went shopping last April.
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