Secretly Incredibly Fascinating - BONUS SHOW 179: "Lawn Darts"
This is the bonus show for Episode 179! (Lawn Darts)
Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore the obviously incredibly fascinating topic of lawn darts: a toy sold to kids, machete-style, until a surprising heroic grieving parent battled to solve this for all of us.
RESEARCH SOURCES:
The rise and fall of lawn darts (Mashable)
How One Grieving Father Got Lawn Darts Banned (Mental Floss)
Did the U.S. Ban Lawn Dart Sales After One Child's Death? -- True (Snopes)
June 13, 1989: Lawn darts tossed from store shelves (CBC News)
Adam Celadin: "Throwing with Roman Plumbata from 3 to 35 meters (Epic Win) !!!" (YouTube)
Remembering a dangerous game (Glens Falls Post-Star)
What a lot of people get wrong about the infamous 1994 McDonald’s hot coffee lawsuit (Vox)
Mediate.com upload of MSNBC clip, featuring the oddly incorrect claim that three deaths led to banning lawn darts
Here are three different links to Amazon sales pages for safe, blunt lawn darts.
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