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January 20, 2017

Retro Fails: 10 Most Dangerous Toys for Children

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The Little Lady Stove was one of the worst offenders, on the market in the 1960s.
It was one of a handful of toys that the National Commission on Product Safety recommended be banned completely, mostly because of the heat it put off. The oven racks would heat up to 600F (315C), which is hotter than most real-life, grown-up ovens ever need to be. - Urban Ghosts

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Think of the toys I would have burned in that thing! An opportunity spared.

Posted by: Mother Effingby [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 20, 2017 9:28 AM

Around 1963 I received for Christmas a Mattel Snub nosed 38 toy revolver that had brass cartridges with spring loaded gray plastic bullets and Greenie Stickem caps were applied to the rear. It held 6 of course and upon firing the cap exploded and the plastic bullet launched across the room. It was chrome plated with black plastic grips.

So realistic was this toy that my dad put a real .38 bullet in and took it out side and fired it. It did indeed fire but banana peeled the 2" barrel.

He didn't do that with the 50 fanner I got the year before.

Posted by: ghostsniper at January 20, 2017 10:01 AM

Banning dangerous toys? Why?

We need them to kill stupid kids and cull the herd of losers.

We have no predators left to do the job, we killed them all or kicked them out of town. We seem to be winning against non-human parasites, even though we tolerate, even encourage, Democrats and other takers and fakers.

So we'll have to thin our own herd with impromptu IQ and physical tests. What better than a toy stove that gets very hot? If the parents are stupid enough to give their kids this toy, then the little dolts can't figure it out or are too weak to take the injury and heal up, we need to get rid of them before they breed.

Posted by: Fred Z at January 20, 2017 1:11 PM

Cats have multiple ways of being skinned...

Apart from the carbide cannon I made out of a quart paint can mounted on 2x4 (calcium carbide was available at the local hardware store in that mining community,) I at one point discovered the starter's gun which could be ordered with a coupon in the back pages of Boy's Life, and was intended to fire blanks out of an aperture in the top of the frame - the barrel being plugged.

It was discovered that an Allen-key set screw would handily plug the hole, and a little time with a hand drill would open the pot-metal plug in the barrel. Et voila, a functional pistol.

Posted by: Rob De Witt at January 20, 2017 6:07 PM

Heck, we used to burn magnesium shavings for light entertainment.

Posted by: pbird at January 21, 2017 8:27 AM

In the midst of our abundance of commie liberals, where in the heck is Irwin Mainway when you need him?

I had a Mattel "Shootin' Shell" Winchester rifle when I was a kid. Put the bullet into the spring loaded cartridge case, add a primer in the form of a cap gun cap and you could pop your brother from close range.

Trouble was, my middle brother loaded that puppy and shot our younger brother with the thing when we were kids. Younger brother waited until middle brother put the cap rifle down and then he picked it up, swung it like a baseball bat, and broke my prized rifle on middle brother's back.

We played "for keeps" then and we still do.

Posted by: Jack at January 21, 2017 9:44 AM

"We need them to kill stupid kids and cull the herd of losers."

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All those stupid kids and losers are now running rampant all over the country protesting and whining for reasons they cannot explain.

Maybe a couple battalions of warriors should pay them a visit.

Posted by: ghostsniper at January 22, 2017 5:40 PM

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