Top 10 most dangerous toys

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Since this list includes adult and youth "toys," you have left off perhaps the most hazardous: the red "english style," Huffy 3-speed bicycle produced and sold through the decade of the sixties and beyond. With its handlegrip shifter, it was certain to cause multiple moderate to severe ankle sprains (to go with testicular impact against the frame crossbar) in all who rode it habitually. But that was the kindest cut of all. To many (probably tens of thousands, possibly many more) riding across the path of a distant vehicle when the bike lost control and threw its rider towards the ground, their imminent next location was in a grave or awaking in a hospital facing months and years of recovery, and lifelong disability from serious to grave injury bestowed by their Huffies. A product that today would certainly put its manufacturer out of business, Huffman/Huffy Mfg company had the prevailing attitudes of those times, and the ineptitude of police agencies (DPD comes to mind as among the worst) to thank for the fact that it is still in business selling bikes today.

Shame on those toy manufacturers!!! They really have some nerve!! How dare they presume that the consumers would be able to exercise some thought and common sense. Don't they know that the public is made up of millions of blithering idiots who don't have enough intelligence to wipe their own noses?! How dare they sell toys that, when used INCORRECTLY will cause injury. The stupidity of the public is clearly evidenced in the fact that there have been injury and death from their products and there is no fault whatsoever on the part of the consumer who is only a hapless victim of the toy manufacturers conspiracy to spread death and destruction.

Your overwrought sense of irony does have a place, but not in the thread in which you have essayed to weave it; nor as applies to a product which killed and maimed...when used exactly as it, and uncounted millions of similar (but safe) products, were designed and intended to be used. If a manufacturer knowingly (albeit ingenuously) designs in a hidden flaw portending grave consequences, and continues to purvey after knowing of such consequences, ought not we to withhold scorn for persons injured or killed by that manufacturer's product? And place it where it belongs: with the grossly (even criminally) negligent manufacturer? And if such would be the case with adult owner of that product, would it not be even moreso with a child or adolescent owner to that product? I would offer, that it would be the height of "uncommon" sense to think otherwise!

My brother & I often made our own toys, I recall us making a" bunger gun" cannon , where a firecracker was was slid into a short length of metal pipe with one end closed with a cap with a small hole for the wick to protrude through & a 1/2" ball bearing rolled down the barrel, we aimed it at a empty 44 gallon about 6 ft from the cannon to see if it would dent the drum, much to our surprise when we fired it it blew a 5/8" hole through both sides of the drum & the ball bearing disappeared to ???? into the distance. Parents consificated that one !!

We also built a hydrogen generator[ science experiment ?!] down in the back yard shed / cubby house with glass bottles, hoses, zinc chips & hydrochloric acid and decided to light the outlet pipe to see the pretty blue flame, fortunately we had the foresight to wrap the whole setup in old wheat bags & old blankets & light it from a distance with a fuse,[ string soaked in kerosene ], the resulting explosion when we lit it was truly awesome !!!!, brought people running form 100 yards away, must have had an air leak somewhere, didn't do the shed much good either !!

We were confined to our bedrooms on weekends for weeks after that one .!! & banned from making any other dangerous "toys" without parental approval first, thank heavens they didn't see some othe other stuff we made in the past !!

Boy we both had fun as kids !!!!! [admittedly a little dangerous ]

Brien.