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Dirty Dozen- The Most Dangerous Toys of 2001
An anonymous reader pointed us to The Dirty Dozen
which lists the most dangerous toys for children. #1 on the list is Metal Gear Solid 2 (which I finished this weekend and highly recommend)
Also making the cut are Gundam and Dragonball Zaction figures (nothing scarier then Bulma on a bad hair day I guess), Super Street Fighter II and Doom. Of course the specific version of doom they classify as one of the most dangerous toys of 2001 is the Game Boy Advanced port, and I gotta agree with them on the GBA thing, those things are dangerous. Play for more then 30 minutes, and you go blind.
I thought video games were responsible for all the world's injuries these days...
Sounds like a shopping list to go buy each one to me ...
12 Days of Christmas ... 12 Dangerous Toys ... Coincidence? I think not.
This is ridiculous. Next it'll be hungry hungry hippos because it promotes bad table manners.
Lawn darts... they were my favorite. We used to make the neighbor kid catch 'em.
Uh... "Shadow Cat" listed as one of the most dangerous toys?
It's only a 45-ton 'mech, for God's sake!
Every now and then my Timber Wolf steps on those things and I won't even notice anything special happens!
Here are some other dangerous toys that didn't make that list.
Is to block this site from their parents using parental control...
"Time is long and life is short, so begin to live while you still can." -EV
That had this label on it:
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I played with Transformer toys with big guns etc. and I turned out fine (except, of course, for the whole reading /. thing and being a geek...)
Yeah, well, the jerk store called and said they're running out of you!
What about the ever popular "bag of glass" or how about the loved "self tatooting kit?"
I think the real danger is your kid standing around screaming at the top of his lungs for half an hour trying to power up, with perhaps a break every few minutes to ask "Where's Goku?".
I read the internet for the articles.
How could they miss GTA3? They'd probably have coronaries if they ever saw that game...now I can just see it...oh that's a cool looking driving game..neat! Um did you just hit that person? Um did you just hit that cop and old lady? Why are you using the side view of the car? ARE YOU SHOOTING THOSE PEOPLE???? Hey your guy got out of the car...hey you just hit that old lady with a baseball bat...HEY why are you clubbing her corpse...is that blood? A molotov what? Those people are all on fire...there's flaming cars everywhere...STOP IT...he's already dead!
hehe...naturally it goes on for a solid hour >:) But seriously folks, these people don't necessarily represent all Christians!
I always throught Happy Fun Ball was the most dangerous SNL toy....
I sure wish they made those, though a few of the random toys out of the grocery store quarter machines probably are as "safe" as HFB...
I know that because here in prison they only let the responsible people use the computers.
Pilate was washing his hands of the whole affair. It was a symbolic guesture, there was no blood involved.
Solomon commanded the baby should be cut in half to get a reaction from the mothers. The baby was never harmed.
For some REAL biblical violence, try Judges 4:21, where Jael uses a hammer to drive a tent stake through the head of a sleeping Sisera, pinning it to the ground! That's good reading there.
Read a good book lately?
... Hillary Rosen declared the iPod the year's most dangerous toy.
Expanding a vast wasteland since 1996.
you really want trouble? then just print on a baseballbat, in large letters "Do not insert in backside"..
Denial always works better...
//rdj
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
--Sheikh Abd-Al-Kadir, 1587
...every year around this time we see lists of the most dangerous children's toys, but no one bothers with lists of the most dangerous *adult* toys?
"Twice half-assed makes an ass whole." --Solomon K. Chang
Their logo shows a lion and lamb playing with blocks.
Do they have any idea what lions really do to lambs?
I'd think a nature video would be far more "dangerous" to a kid's psyche(i.e. not at all) than any of those toys.
Chomp, chomp, splatter, splatter.
Mmmmm. Lamb. It's what's for dinner.
These morons have to get out of their isolated lives and realize they're living in a cocoon. Real world sucks, ladies, and if you shield your kids from it and pretend we can all hold hands and sing kumbyah, your kids will be far more messed up.
For finding me these sweet K'NEX battlemech sets. Screw christmas, I'm getting the Timberwolf (the *right* name for a madcat :) ) for myself.
-- iCEBaLM
You've obviously never seen a table saw sling a 2x4 thru the guy standing next to you because someone else was using it improperly.
Jaysyn
There is a war going on for your mind.
anyone to think that they can watch/participate-in violence or porno and be completely uneffected by it is foolhardy.
Yep. I agree. If I watch porno and I'm not visibly affected, something is horribly, horribly wrong.