# World's most dangerous toys **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 30, 2008, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-dangerous-toys/475049 "2008-11-30T14:20:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![jeffkaron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8c91f0/32.png) [@jeffkaron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jeffkaron)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2008, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-dangerous-toys/475049/201 "2008-12-24T16:22:43Z")
I forgot all about darts–as in having a basement “rec room” in which hung, permanently, a dart board. Our darts weren’t the finely weighted ones that serious pub competitors carry. They were plastic with metal heads, or lightweight wood with feathers. Year after year holes appeared in the ceiling tiles, floor, and walls. And when adults weren’t around, kids did throw them at each other. Occasionally someone would nail one of my mother’s bar glasses, too, which was good for sound effects (like all members of the rising middle class, we had a bar downstairs–it even had one of those globe bar lights that had fakey antique style letters that spelled out “Bar,” in case you were in doubt). ---
**Author:** ![ElliottWilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/51bf81/32.png) [@ElliottWilson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElliottWilson)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2008, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-dangerous-toys/475049/202 "2008-12-30T04:46:38Z")
In the basement, I still have a Wham-O crossbow. Not a wimpy plastic toy, but a bonafide weapon. The decal on the stock says “From the makers of Frisbee”. When I was young, it took two kids to pull back the bowstring. It could fire a sharpened pencil into a 2x4 . God that was a fun toy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/worlds-most-dangerous-toys/475049.md?page=10)