[boris]

There are still some about. I bought a friend's kids some toy helicopters. You pulled a trigger, which spun up the blades; releasing the trigger released the copter. One kid immediately pointed it HORIZONTALLY at her face, incorrectly assuming she would get a nice breeze.

Her mom and I both yelled "No!" and started across the room to prevent disaster. She let go of the trigger, launched the helicopter directly at her face. One of the blades cut her lip.

She hadn't had the toy more than one minute.

Over the years I've bought them unicycles (think of the injury potential), pogo sticks (a ticket to the emergency room) and sundry other toys that make it easy for kids to hurt themselves. In fact, the local joke is that I shop at "the Department of Dangerous Toys."

--Boris

[Mike Darancette]

Remember the little rockets you filled halfway with water the pumped up with air? Some of the better ones would go 300-400' up.