The 8 Most Wildly Irresponsible Vintage Toys

Cracked.com ^ | October 19, 2011 | Tracy V.

[EveningStar]

These days, if a stuffed animal's plastic eye so much as wiggles, that toy is recalled faster than you can say "class action lawsuit." Back in the day, though, child safety consisted of just getting out of the way and letting natural selection do its thing. If a kid was too dumb to play with a toy the right way, well, he'd just have to learn to get along with one less eye.

[EveningStar]

ping

[MNDude]

No lawn darts??

[rightwingextremist1776]

Ahhh...the good old days....when dumb was dealt with early on. Now...we have to put up with the idiots instead...where would the democrats be without them?

[stylin19a]

no “Bag O’ Glass”?

[rfp1234]

http://www.mesotheliomasymptoms.com/asbestos-toys

Asbestos in Toys A 2007 Seattle P-I article explained that one of that year’s “biggest-selling Christmas toys” was found to contain asbestos. The CSI Fingerprint Examination Kit was found to contain traces of this carcinogen, the news source explains. According to the article, that fingerprint kit was a “huge seller,” meaning countless children could have been put at risk for developing an asbestos-related disease later in life.

This Chinese-made kit was just one of several other products licensed by CBS that is based on the popular “CSI” crime series, the Seattle P-I reports. The news source also explains that the science set had “an extensive array of plastic tools, inks and three types of very fine powders -- white, black and glow-in-the-dark.” After analysis, the site reports that “high levels of two types of asbestos” tainted the white and glow powders...

[Kimmers]

My husband still has his lead soldier making kit.....

[andy58-in-nh]

One of my childhood favorites:

Ahhh, I still recall the intoxicating smell of this stuff, while it was busily bubbling and cooking off...

I'm sure my ADD was just coincidental.

[Scythian]

In 1977, at the height of the Lawn Jart popularity craze, an estimated 120,000 people died each year due to Lawn Jart accidents.

[gunnut]

I have a set of lawn darts and you can have them when you pry them from my cold dead hands.

[OB1kNOb]

[MrEdd]

[old man voice]

When I was a kid,
WE REALY WERE SMARTER THAN YOU YOUNG SNOTS!
because the stupid people died.

[/old man voice]

[NavyCanDo]

Didn't need a toy maker to provide ways for me to walk the thin line between mayhem and disaster. The fun I could have with a plastic model airplane and a can of lighter fluid. Oh and often the unlucky airmen and burning plane was thrown off the roof of our house.

[OB1kNOb]

[driftless2]

I can’t believe they didn’t include the most popular boy kid toy of all...the bb gun. Kids still die from bb guns...four last year in fact. It was my favorite toy growing up.

[arrdon]

Hey; they left out the Plumb Boys Axe, which actually wasn’t a toy. I know; I cut completely through my foot with one when 9 years old. Still have the little monster - and my foot, thank God.

[dfwgator]

That product was very popular in Texas and Detroit.

[cartan]

Uhm, people don’t do glass blowing anymore? Of course you do it with bare hands! A glass tube can be red hot in the middle and still cold on the edges: It doesn’t conduct heat!

[sten]

In 1977, at the height of the Lawn Jart popularity craze, an estimated 120,000 people died each year due to Lawn Jart accidents.

is this a true stat? source??

[dfwgator]