Boy you'd never know that state and a queer governor would ya ?
I feel better now.
Looks like we have a few Yo-Yos in our Legislature.
What ever happened to the war on drugs?
That's why my 3 year old is only allowed to play with clean hypodermic needles.
New Jersey toughs display their weapons.
It would be interesting to see that list. Wonder if most happened to the same kid.
Time to ban bicycles.
ML/NJ
And BTW this is 338 injuries nationwide! NJ probably has about ten, and one wonders how many of these would have also occurred if the toy being used at the time were an ordinary yo-yo,
I grew up on the Lower Eastside of Detroit.. we played with stiletos, zip guns, jimmy sticks... and they think that this is bad?
I sustained over 338 injuries building birdhouses as a kid. Wish I had had the NJ legislature to protect me. Of course, they'd probably have jailed my parents...
a water yo-yo ? sounds kinda gay...oh wait, its new jersey.
Anybody remember that Saturday Night Live sketch from...gosh, it has to be twenty years ago now...where Jane Curtin played a TV reporter who interviewed Dan Aykroyd?
Aykroyd played a sleazy toy manufacturer who made such things as "a bag full of pretty broken glass" and the "Astronaut" Halloween costume which was nothing more than a large plastic bag that was supposed to be placed over the head.
Anyway, Aykroyd's character argues with Curtin's, saying, "Hey you can make ANY toy dangerous!" and pulls out an innocent-looking toy phone. He says, "Look! A kid could strangle himself with this!" and demonstrates just how this might happen.
The audience ROARED with laughter. Clearly they found the thought of a toy phone being dangerous as utterly hilarious.
So here we are, twenty years hence, and by golly, not only is that type of toy phone banned (all the cords are less than 8 inches long now), but so are all the cool pull toys (only a child a foot tall could pull them now -- the strings are all too short), and now so too are these fun little water yo-yos.
I dunno...how in the world did any of us survive childhood?
Regards,
Well, at least the junkies won't be brandishing water yo-yo's at innocent people.