Did you grow up playing with this deadly game??????

[Troy]

I played with them a lot. It never really was much fun to just throw them at the hoop.

Troy

[Old Moparz]

I could bring my lawn dart set to Carlisle & we could all drink beer play out behind the motel. Or make up a new game with them at the go-cart track. 

[MoparManJim]

Oh boy, this thread brings back memories about my late grand dad  . I have a small story to tell you all. 

Back when I was kid and wasn't working on models very much in the summers afew of my friends and I would get togother at the house and my grand dad live just a across the yard from us. He would always come out and set on the wood and watch us play. Well one day my late dad bought a truck load of wood home. Him and grand dad decided to spilt the wood in the back yard area (next to the area where my grand dad always set at) well this one evening my grand dad was taking a break from slipping wood and decided to set down on the one piece of full cut piece of wood and was talking to us for afew seconds. Now my friend and I get back to playing the game and through the darts at the circle. But we are underhand throwing them lightly. Well my grand dad is watching.. I go to trow the dart and bring my hand up and almost as my right arm gets in front of me I leave go. Now I'm thinking the dart is going out wards (not keeping my eyes on it). Some how the dart didn't go like I though it did but rather it went up and some show tilted the other way and landed... right between my grand dads legs and nailed him right in the pants and the metal point stright in the the wood that he was setting on. Lucky he was wearing baggy pants as the dart just mist something that would have hurted alot if it had been over afew hairs to what my grand dad told us. All I remember was afew seconds after I had let go of the dart was my grand dad left out a "Hey!!" and my friend and I both turn't around fast to see what happen and that was when he bought it to our attention. We didn't play with the darts after that.. we was to afraid that we would hurt someone or something with them.   

[Duchess]

Sure did!  What a hoot.  We mostly played with the darts themselves, flinging them around wildly.  No injuries I recall.

[1969chargerrtse]

Yessir, and just like everything else, some brain dead moron decided to throw 'em at someone else. now they are collectors items....Played with 'em the CORRECT way for years, never hadda problem....

[chargergirl]

We never had lawn darts...Bocce yes, horseshoes of course but my brother used to use the bow and arrow to shoot straight up and attempt to catch the arrow as it came down. Natural selection did not work...he's still here. lol

[jb666]

It's a good thing my little horse-shoe accident was never reported 

[resq302]

I could bring my lawn dart set to Carlisle & we could all drink beer play out behind the motel. Or make up a new game with them at the go-cart track. 

Better yet, if I can't find my grandfathers set, I'll have you bring them for the char-b-q Aug. 21st.

[69rtse4spd]

Sure did.

[69bronzeT5]

I used to always play those........my cousin launched one across our yard (about 2 acres) and it went about 2 inches into a tree....

Dude, I did not think you were old enough     but I on the other hand tried to use them in
a responsible manner, because I am that old. But it was tempting to see how far they ''could'' go, but alas
we played fair.

Dan

When we moved into our house on the Island back in 2002, they were left at the house. However, they ended up breaking around 2006....

[John_Kunkel]

Without lawn darts the F-16 would never have got its nickname.

[DodgeByDave]

I survived Jarts, Thalidomide, Riding in the back of trucks (unsupervised, I think dad wanted us to fall out) and no seat belts.

All I got was a lousy shirt.

[Ghoste]

There may be a set still hanging around at my folks house but the story about those things that most stands out in my mind is from many years back.  I was living in a pretty crappy area with run down houses and what not.  The place I was living in was ahouse split into three apartments and one day the professional welfare mom that lived underneath me was in the parking lot with her child assets playing with those damned lawn darts.  I came around the corner just in time to see one of her little morons bury a dart into the top of the right front fender of a 69 Charger I had at the time.

[squeakfinder]

   There's a load of them on craigslist......






                                                 http://www.craiglook.com/all.html?q=jarts

[squeakfinder]

  I'll try that again...       http://www.craiglook.com/all.html?q=jarts...

[69 OUR/TEA]

Holy cow,they're everywere!!!! Thanks for the link.

[Road Dog]

I survived Jarts and Clackers!

[moparstuart]

I survived Jarts and Clackers!

oh yeah I had some lime green clackers , those where a blast  only lost a couple of fingers 

[Old Moparz]

Clackers, what a great toy!! It had absolutely no purpose other than to clobber a sibling & claim it was accidental. 

I had a set when I was 7 or 8 years old. When you got them going really fast & loud, you almost expected them to explode & shatter into your face.  What mostly happened, were just bruises all over your arms.

[moparstuart]

   here are my lime green ones I had

[Road Dog]

These are the actual ones I had as a kid.

[moparstuart]

very cool i  gotta find me a pair to hang from the rear view mirror of the birdible

[chargergirl]

Now those were cool!

[aone415]

[sarcasm]We used to play this game religiously in the summers of the late 70's and early 80's... until... the neighbors dog was killed during a sudden death match, from that point on Jarts as banned in our town and the 4 towns that bordered ours.  Possession of "Jart Paraphernalia" was punishable by 30 days and a $500 fine [/sarcasm]

[jeryst]

[sarcasm]We used to play this game religiously in the summers of the late 70's and early 80's... until... the neighbors dog was killed during a sudden death match, from that point on Jarts as banned in our town and the 4 towns that bordered ours.  Possession of "Jart Paraphernalia" was punishable by 30 days and a $500 fine [/sarcasm]

Well, it WAS a "Sudden Death Match"! What did they expect? - lol