World's Most Dangerous Toy?

[Foxbat]

Perhaps it is. Nevertheless, I want one.

 

[Pyan]

A competitor for the title?

 

[Dave]

My son once had a finger-sized "super-strong magnet" "toy" which he took everywhere and used on absolutely everything he could find. He once put it on a TV screen somewhere and it permanently distorted the cathode ray tube. The picture was skewed with weird colour patterns that didn't go away. (It may have been one of our TV's, or a friend's, or it may have been in a hotel room. I forget now.) I know I didn't say anything about the TV, but I quickly confiscated the magnet after that. Those kind of magnets should not be on sale for children but I believe there a few restrictions, and that you can easily buy even larger, even more powerful magnets. Put it next to computer hard drives or next to grampa's pacemaker???

PS. I've since learnt that those magnetic effects on old CRT TV's don't last forever, and in any case, they can be degaussed with a degaussing coil. Makes me feel better now that I never confessed about it.

 

[Dave]

A competitor for the title?

We used to play this in the 1970's, but we called them "Dutch Arrows" and made them ourselves. Luckily there was never an accident, but if they had hit anyone then they could have easily killed someone or caused a serious injury. We could fire them quite accurately (more accurately than this bloke in the video) but they went a long way (easily over 120 yards) and while they were in flight someone could have quite easily walked into the landing zone. We also didn't use feathers, but paper card for flights.

 

[Danny McG]

We used to play this in the 1970's, but we called them "Dutch Arrows" and made them ourselves

Same as "French" Arrows?

 

[Dave]

French" Arrows

They also look similar, but ours were shorter.