Dangerous toys

[Lamp]

Yahoo! Christmas - Features | The most dangerous toys ever made

 

[xomer]

omg

 

[Ezteq]

LOL!!

Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Lab

When? 1951-1952
What? The ultimate educational set to teach kids how to get the most out of, erm, uranium.

I love the fact it came with a geiger counter so you could make sure the uranium was real! That is brilliant hehehe

 

[TdC]

I remember have a maze puzzle as a child where you had to guide a silver ball through a maze. After taking it apart, I discovered the silver ball was in fact a ball of mercury 0o

Ofc being a bright child, I knew mercury was poisonous, so without touching it I managed to flush it down the loo

 

[Ch3tan]

Apart from the atomic energy kit, that was pretty shit. I'm sure there have been far more dangerous toys. Sloppy reporting.

You have to remember that in Americaa at that time, you could buy water jugs that were radioactive.

 

[Ezteq]

people were always giving me pen knives when I was a kid, that's a pretty dangerous toy...fun though!

 

[Shagrat]

i want an atomic energy kit

 

[Zenith.UK]

I was given a chemical garden set when I was a kid.
Considering some of the chemicals in it, I'm amazed it was marketed as a kid's toy.
Chemical garden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Jimmy]

brilliant love the atomic kit

 

[TdC]

I was given a chemical garden set when I was a kid.
Considering some of the chemicals in it, I'm amazed it was marketed as a kid's toy.
Chemical garden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

omg I had one of those too

 

[Access Denied]

Bah, back in teh stone age America had radioactive chocolate. Yes, you heard me. Radioactive. Fucking. Chocolate. Apparently they thought that since radioactive material tends to glow it must be good for you. Quite possibly the origin of the whole "Americans are thickos" idea.

 

[Ezteq]

I saw on QI stephen fry was saying about how back in history when they used radium to make watches and things the girls who worked in the factories would paint their teeth with it to make them glow in the dark...then their faces would fall off and they'd die etc.


Am I the only one who wonders what 'safe' and 'healthy' stuff we use today is going to turn out to be lethul in the future?

 

[cHodAX]

I saw on QI stephen fry was saying about how back in history when they used radium to make watches and things the girls who worked in the factories would paint their teeth with it to make them glow in the dark...then their faces would fall off and they'd die etc.


Am I the only one who wonders what 'safe' and 'healthy' stuff we use today is going to turn out to be lethul in the future?

Fizzy drinks, alcopops with bright colours, chewing gum...

 

[Zenith.UK]

Am I the only one who wonders what 'safe' and 'healthy' stuff we use today is going to turn out to be lethul in the future?

IMO, Aspartame.

 

[fettoken]

I saw on QI stephen fry was saying about how back in history when they used radium to make watches and things the girls who worked in the factories would paint their teeth with it to make them glow in the dark...then their faces would fall off and they'd die etc.


Am I the only one who wonders what 'safe' and 'healthy' stuff we use today is going to turn out to be lethul in the future?

That is really charming.

In the future. It is my belief that they will find guns to be dangerous and ban them.

 

[Gwadien]

This should be there;

I crashed into a bush into it when i was about 5, and I nearly died, tripped over a car, did about 3 spins and everything

 

[Dvaerg]

My sister had this fairy flying thing with the wings, and i got knocked out by it.

Fucking kamikazed into my head.

 

[Maeloch]

Ofc being a bright child, I knew mercury was poisonous, so without touching it I managed to flush it down the loo

I don't know what the hell he had it for, but my uncle used to give me a pint bottle of mercury to play with. Remember regularly pouring it allover the patio and flicking the silver balls all over the place, then collecting it all up by hand to pour back in the bottle.

Nowadays he'd probably get arrested and the men in white suits get called in to decon the area.

 

[Maeloch]

Anyone remember dutch arrows? Those things were lethal, could pretty much throw them the length of a football pitch.

 

[Tuthmes]

This should be there;

I crashed into a bush into it when i was about 5, and I nearly died, tripped over a car, did about 3 spins and everything

Dangerous indeed:

YouTube - Sean Sheffey & Son

 

[xomer]

btw ma little bro used to play with these toys tbh.

but, bad dog never dies..

 

[kiliarien]

It needs to come with a gimp who will reload:

DISINTEGRATOR.co.uk - home of the motorised double rubber band minigun