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The 10 Most Dangerous Toys of All Time
Ant writes "An article at the Radar lists the ten most dangerous toys of all time, those treasured playthings that drew blood, chewed digits, took out eyes, and, in one case, actually irradiated. To keep things interesting, the editors excluded BB guns, slingshots, throwing stars, and anything else actually intended to inflict harm." My favorite: 'Feed Me!' begged the packaging for 1996's Cabbage Patch Snacktime Kid. And much like the carnivorous Audrey II from Little Shop of Horrors, the adorable lineup of Cabbage Patch snack-dolls appeared at first to be harmless. They merely wanted a nibble--a carrot perhaps, or maybe some yummy pudding. They would stop chewing when snack time was done -- they promised. Then they chomped your child's finger off."
Uranium-238 generates no alpha-radiation, it generates BETA radiation. You know, same stuff that the Potassium in you generates. U-238 is about as unsafe as lead for the same reasons (being a heavy metal), but radiation is not one.
Great Intellect...
According to this, "no serious injuries have been reported".
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Damn ad-heavy split up articles.
1. Lawn Darts
2. Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab
3. Mini-Hammocks from EZ Sales
4. Snacktime Cabbage Patch Dolls
5. Sky Dancers
6. Bat Masterson Derringer Belt Gun
7. Creepy Crawlers
8. Johnny Reb Cannon
9. Battlestar Galactica Missile Launcher
10. Fisher-Price Power Wheels Motorcycle
So it seems they missed the latest threat:
The Nintendo Wii
- http://www.wiihaveaproblem.com/
Example injuries from that site:
- Girl Dislocates Knee While Playing with Wii
- Attack on Girlfriend Proves Fatal to Boyfriend's Wii Privileges
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
NO, they couldn't. Even in those cool kits of old you wouldn't be able to come up with enough material to make a dirty bomb that actually mattered - you'd need several kilos of bad stuff (or stuff that was much more refined than anything that would have come in a kit like this).
Most people in this country (like yourself) haven't the slightest clue about radiation. They hear the word and instantly panic, all the while flying back and forth between their brick houses in Denver where and their wooden house in Miami. (One of these houses has three times the background radiation as the other. Which is it?)
As for this particular lab, I haven't been able to find the specs but I'll bet you a mod point that your average american smoke detector has a far greater intensity of ionizing radiation than anything that Gilbert put on the market. There are probably clocks out there with radium painted dials that are far more radioactive, not to mention all of the uranium oxide they used for dinnerware until production of the bomb in WWII dried up the supply. (The product line continues to this day, but they stopped using the radioactive glaze back in the 60s. Google up Fiestaware.)
In other words, back in the day, it was far more likely for somebody to visit Crate and Barrel to obtain enough materials for a dirty bomb than it was Toys R Us.
If the g'vt kept the data on you that google does you'd better believe you'd be calling it "doing evil"
You're thinking of Denis Leary's Merry F#$%n' Christmas Special. I think it was on last year. They have some clips from the show on the Comedy Central site, but not the segment you're talking about.
You are in a maze of twisty little relative jumps, all alike.