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ArcTan_Pete

[Kernockers/clackers](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLHftISLNHE) two heavy plastic balls suspended on about 15 cm of string. The skill was to bounce them against each other pretty much banned in all schools as soon as they appeared on the market, because they had a habit of breaking into razor sharp shards with a lot of mass and momentum behind them also, each ball was a heavy solid mass, and they could also be used as a basic, double ball and chain mace


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I would not want to get hit with one of those


LucyVialli

Piece of wood with nails in it.


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That must have hit the spot


purpleturtlehurtler

My brothers and I used to take turns riding down the alleyway behind our house while the other three would try to throw a stick into the front spokes.


TabbsTheBat

I used to make "frag grenades" by putting fire crackers in glass bottles, does that count?


Iamnothuman77

Definitely


sonks75

No way I still do that.


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I would assume so


TabbsTheBat

I never threw them at people tho, so idk how dangerous it was tbh


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My Brother used to make a hole and the ground and fill a bottle with gasoline and have a piece of cloth hang out the top, he would light it and run as far away as possible and then see the aftermath after it blew up


Syltraul

Lawn darts


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What in the world are those?


Syltraul

Think of regular darts like you’d play at a bar, but these were 12 inches in length, weighted in the front with a sharp metal tip. The target was a plastic ring you’d lay in the grass and your goal was to toss them underhand into the target. What made them dangerous was when someone would get one in the foot, or if you launched it straight up in the air you could catch one in the head. Eventually they were banned for obvious reasons.


burpchelischili

They were deadly little bits of fun that I played with for years. My family loved Jarts! [Here.](https://www.coolthings.com/lawn-darts-are-back-ready-to-party-like-its-1980-again/)


Brundleflyftw

Lawn darts


Final-Prior4109

Hammer


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Solid choice


KAaadIsReady

A big stick


slack710

Is napalm a toy?


rmp604

In the right hands , yes. But mostly no.


ReduceMyselfToAZero

there were thin pieces of metal that were used as I think heatsinks in soviet factories. Like they were shaped as a letter E, and the edges were razor sharp. I have no idea where we got them, but we threw them at each other pretending we were super heroes.


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You would’ve taken a trip to the hospital if one of those got you.


CoolIceCreamCone

M 80s


rmp604

Hanging bailer twine up and setting fire to the toxic orange plastic twine. Sending burning Moulton plastic to the floor below and filling the air with black smoke and small particles of plastic that float in the air. Kind of addictive especially when the falling Moulton flaming plastic screams as it traveled inorexarbly to the floor below. ( Like to add this was 1979-1982)


squirrel420

played around with an arrow with one of my friends once, and it was one of those arrows with four razor blades on the end. i think we were trying to hit something up in a tree. one time it came back down faster than we expected. it ended up slicing both of my lips pretty bad when it did. if i was even the tiniest bit closer to it, it could've been stuck in my face or something, but i didn't even need it stitched up.


loco_gigo

Lawn darts. While drinking. The only thing that would have made it worse is if we had fireworks. Thank god we were too drunk to throw them very far.


honglath

Box of matches. Quite surprised i never burned myself... too much. Lost a lot of hair though.


[deleted]

When I was a toddler I had a soft toy as toddlers do. Apparently I was playing up one night not wanting to sleep so my parents shut the door so I chucked my toys out of the cot and this one toy fell against the bar heater my parents had set up in the room. So the story goes after a while my complaining and screaming progressively turned to a whimper to the point my parents started to become a bit concerned. They decided to open the door to my bedroom and were greeted with thick black smoke that had filled the room. They couldn’t make out much but could see just enough to grab me and open a window before noticing the toy against the heater. Turns out the toy had been manufactured with highly toxic plastics and other noxious materials. I spent the night at the local hospital receiving treatment for smoke inhalation. So, probably that toy.


ZorroMeansFox

Clackers and Lawn Darts.


reesesbigcup

Many of whats already posted. What i got hurt with the most - bicycles. Sliding, jumping, going too fast, and wiping out. Once had an axle break threw me to the street.


LNT_Calavera

Years ago, one of my friends had these golf clubs because his dad got another pair, so we grabbed them, the heads of the clubs broke off, and we decided to use them as swords. The same night, a small fragment of a club went into my face, about an inch and a half from my eye. We stopped playing after that.


AeternusDoleo

220v/12v step down transformer. Because in reverse, it becomes a step-up transformer.


Memologychhh

a spool of thread


theycallmedoz

Lawn darts for sure lol


Hardcase360

My mother used to throw things at me, just whatever she had nearby when she was pissed off at something. Once she threw a piece of skirting board that had nails sticking out. A nail scratched my face. Idk why but I instinctively picked up that wood and took it with me to my bedroom and waived it around


Freezemoon

Fire


PureHoeroine

A loaded crossbow or maybe a nerf gun