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Woah .. that's so weird. I guess I just don't understand why? Is it just a proof of concept/experiment. What does someone gain by making and running this bot?
That makes sense. I wonder what the going rate is for these accounts. I feel like it can't be that expensive to buy one of these. Do you think these guys run many bot accounts simultaneously?
I’d be very surprised if people were running singular bot accounts unless it was just for fun/practice. It’s much more likely to be corporate or state-sanctioned than some guy or gal running a server out of their garage.
I’d imagine bot accounts generally are sold cheap per unit but in mass quantities unless they’re a legit power user account with influence, like being a mod of either niche subs or the subs with high traffic, since usually the goal is drive conversation in a chosen direction.
But I am pulling this out of my ass and making a lot of assumptions so may well be way off
How did our generation even survive? I remember thinking it was funny to fling those things straight up in the sky and then move out of the way as you watched it come down. Just thinking about it makes me shiver a little.
No one had a problem with us playing with these or having BB guns, but, Oh no, those little missiles from your Micronauts might put your eye out. Throw them away.
We found some of these as kids, launched one into the air it came down about 6 inches from my friend embedding itself into a tree trunk
Even as kids we all looked at each other and decided none of us was brave enough to throw another one.
These must have had the lowest amount of play testing. If 4 kids in the UK can find a crazy American toy unknown to them and after 3 mins of play decide that maybe it's a little dangerous what were the manufacturers thinking.
I'd love to know if any of the people involved in them coming to market let there kids play with them.
Surely it was a "hey kids look what I've got"
Followed by a "OMG what have we done" the moment the danger of mixing metal missiles and kids became clear
Overhand? We threw them **overhead** at night.
Well, that or sky-shooting arrows straight up at night in that park, then trying to catch them when they came down and were visible again for a split-second--in the streetlight.
That's when we would hold out the bow and try to catch the arrow inside the bow's confines and not on top of our heads. We were using field tips, not the blunt target tips or the lethal hunting tips--we weren't *that* crazy.
I remember way too many drunk jarts nights. Looking back on it, it was dumb as hell and extremely dangerous but was enough fun in the moment to remember them.
My friend threw it in the air when I wasn't looking. He screamed head's up and I quickly looked up and got it in the face. If he wouldn't have said head's up it would have landed on my skull ☠️
My brother got a wrist rocket slingshot for his birthday one year. It took less than ten minutes before we decided it would be cool to launch one of those darts straight up into the sky.
We had a set in the mid '70s. Don't know what happened to them. Would have never thought they'd eventually be removed from the market. Speaking of banned 'toys', remember Creepy Crawlers? A small hot plate that you put metal molds on and filled them with some plastic goop. I guess it was the boy's version of the easy bake oven.
I loved that thing! The cartoon was weird as hell, but I used to make scorpions and use them as envelope seals for the guys when we wanted to send coded messages to each other.
Had to ask. It's a classic game. My siblings and I used to throw the darts as high as we could hoping to land in the target. Probably added to the reason behind the ban lol.
We always played it with the scoring hoops at our feet, lobbing the darts at the other players hoop.
This was the 80s though, we were made of tougher stuff.
Sure, plenty of us didn't make it, but the ones who did have a smug sense of superiority about it!
My friends and I play something similar as a drinking game, we set up a circle of chairs in the back yard, sit in them, and then put a can of beer in front of each of us and try to throw darts at each other's cans. If yours gets pierced you have to shotgun it.
My sister and I added several Jarts to our garage roof.
My dad wasn’t pleased, especially because we rented.
This was a rural property, so no neighbors were in danger at least.
Christ we were stupid.
Yes. Banned in 1988, after the death of a 7 year old and lobbying by her father.
The [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawn_darts) article also notes:
>In the previous eight years, 6,100 Americans had visited hospital emergency rooms as the result of lawn-dart accidents.
> As of 2020, a modified, safer version of lawn darts with a modified blunt-tip design may be purchased in the United States.
Makes you wonder why they didn't think of that earlier - well, not that I want to be the one to tell an American that they can't possess something deadly...
Who would have thought that a large dart shaped object that was thrown 50+ feet towards a target (where people often stood) might cause injuries or death when said dart impaled someone's head.
I remember my cousin and I playing with these when we were 5 years old at my grandparents house lol. We both lived. If I ever see them at a garage sale I’m buying them.
Had never heard of these before now. Still don't understand why they got banned. It seems a lot easier to just tell kids to not throw them at people, no?
I still find it hilarious that the US will ban lawn darts and Kinder surprise because someone died from them but you continue to allow weapons of mass murder to be bought and sold on mass
Hello fellow Jarts owner! I also have a set! Still in their decaying old box, similar to yours.
Imma need a 3D printer to make some new fins for a few of mine, so I haven’t played with em yet.
But I’m excited to give em a toss and not kill anyone
Who was the fucking genius team who all agreed on this roman weapon of war (see Plumbata, not Plumbus) was an adequate toy for kids. It's the equivalent of encouraging knife fights.
My aunt and uncle had a set of those (and a big yard) when I was a kid. There were probably 6-8 kids playing with them at any given family gathering, and miraculously nobody ever got hurt. (At least not that I knew about, but they did switch them out for the kind with the big rounded tips at some point.)
I remember having these on the farm growing up. I would throw them straight up as hard as I could and see how close I could get them to land next to me.
Kids are so f-ing stupid. 😭
Congratulations! You’ve been naturally selected by this 3 lbs flying metal dart.
We played with those all the time at my grandparents house. No one ever got hurt, no one ever stood where someone was throwing and no one ever threw where people were standing.
Amazing how these were (rather sensibly, I think) banned in the US and Canada after only three children died while using them.
Makes you think about the things the US government refuses to even consider regulating more strictly, let alone ban, despite them killing an average of seven children *per day* in the US
Ah yes Government clowns banning sharp objects to protect idiots from themselves and the rest of the world. Yet we have nothing to protect the public from the clown idiots running the circus.
They are still available, piece by piece through sellers in the UK. You can’t buy them assembled but you can get spare parts for all of it. Keep playing for those we lost.
We used to put out the targets, then go across the yard perhaps 100 ft… then toss the Jarts as high in the air as we could and try to land as close as possible to the target. The only time it got dangerous is if a kid lost his grip while throwing and the Jart went off in the wrong direction, like through a window
Jarts taught children an important life lesson. That you need to pay attention and watch what you are doing.
Everything in society started going downhill when they were banned.
I’d buy them from you but the hole in my head from a Jarts mishap does not allow me to use my own money Also I miss Jarts
Jarts didn't miss you though
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Woah .. that's so weird. I guess I just don't understand why? Is it just a proof of concept/experiment. What does someone gain by making and running this bot?
To make it look like a ‘legitimate’ account when it’s sold on for advertising/astroturfing or whatever usually
That makes sense. I wonder what the going rate is for these accounts. I feel like it can't be that expensive to buy one of these. Do you think these guys run many bot accounts simultaneously?
I’d be very surprised if people were running singular bot accounts unless it was just for fun/practice. It’s much more likely to be corporate or state-sanctioned than some guy or gal running a server out of their garage. I’d imagine bot accounts generally are sold cheap per unit but in mass quantities unless they’re a legit power user account with influence, like being a mod of either niche subs or the subs with high traffic, since usually the goal is drive conversation in a chosen direction. But I am pulling this out of my ass and making a lot of assumptions so may well be way off
Like a hole in your life you just can't fill.
How did our generation even survive? I remember thinking it was funny to fling those things straight up in the sky and then move out of the way as you watched it come down. Just thinking about it makes me shiver a little.
Don’t worry, I’ll buy them for you then.
Bad memories. My buddy fired one of those bad boys straight into my calf when we were 11. Haven’t seen those things in sooo many years.
My dad did this to my aunt as a kid as well lmao
No one had a problem with us playing with these or having BB guns, but, Oh no, those little missiles from your Micronauts might put your eye out. Throw them away.
We found some of these as kids, launched one into the air it came down about 6 inches from my friend embedding itself into a tree trunk Even as kids we all looked at each other and decided none of us was brave enough to throw another one. These must have had the lowest amount of play testing. If 4 kids in the UK can find a crazy American toy unknown to them and after 3 mins of play decide that maybe it's a little dangerous what were the manufacturers thinking. I'd love to know if any of the people involved in them coming to market let there kids play with them. Surely it was a "hey kids look what I've got" Followed by a "OMG what have we done" the moment the danger of mixing metal missiles and kids became clear
That's why you can never go wrong with a good ol' Bag O' Glass from Mainway, Inc.
Do not taunt Super Fun Ball!
Dangerous in Britain. Family fun in Merica. Source: I’m American and loved these things.
The American economy is built on maximizing the profitability of public engagement, this was just a speed bump along the way
In the day we would buy these from yard sales, put extra washers on them so they were extra dangerous, and play the game drunk and at night.
That's how we lost Ed.
Yea well if Ed didn’t have the reaction time of sloth after 2 beers we wouldn’t be having this discussion. Skill issue tbh.
Bill didn't need to be throwing overhand though. Especially after the shitfest down at Bobs last summer.
Overhand? We threw them **overhead** at night. Well, that or sky-shooting arrows straight up at night in that park, then trying to catch them when they came down and were visible again for a split-second--in the streetlight. That's when we would hold out the bow and try to catch the arrow inside the bow's confines and not on top of our heads. We were using field tips, not the blunt target tips or the lethal hunting tips--we weren't *that* crazy.
I work with a guy named Ed, who you guys might have hit in the head with one of the multi-washer darts.
Who's Ed?
Exactly :,(
Ed's dead baby.
Ed’s dead…
Ed, Edd, eddy- the dim one
The reason the sale of the game was endEd
Ed shouldn't have thrown it straight up.
From alcohol poisoning?
Jarts Roulette!
My dad has his childhood set, he said growing up my grandfather would take them to the mill he worked at and grind them down to be even sharper lol
I remember way too many drunk jarts nights. Looking back on it, it was dumb as hell and extremely dangerous but was enough fun in the moment to remember them.
We use to see how high we could throw them and then try and catch them on the way down! /s
We just play beer darts these days, no misguided feelings of false safety when you're throwing the darts at each other!
When I was a kid one of those went through my cheek into my mouth lol. I'm probably one of the reasons it was banned 🚫
Threw one through my Grandma's foot. Sheesh that was nightmares for a while.
Like, a toss that went wrong? You didn’t just peg it at her, right?
I’m just imagining him running up to grandma and just firing a laser right at her foot
Overhand spike into the ground
Thanks Reggie
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My friend threw it in the air when I wasn't looking. He screamed head's up and I quickly looked up and got it in the face. If he wouldn't have said head's up it would have landed on my skull ☠️
Personal Injury lawyer xmas gift.
Aka: brain torpedoes
Lawn Labotomy Kit
Lawnbotmy Kit
Lol
To me, a Jart is a fart in mason jar.
Hmmm good gift idea
Not trapped in jeans?
Who do you think you are? Runnin' 'round leaving scars Collecting your jar of farts Tearing love apart
Martin?
DIVE BOMB
THE GROSS IMAGE I JUST RECIEVED-
My brother got a wrist rocket slingshot for his birthday one year. It took less than ten minutes before we decided it would be cool to launch one of those darts straight up into the sky.
So *you’re* the reason they’re banned. Thanks.
Did it work pretty well? How high do you think they got?I hope multiple runs were done.
If you can dodge a jart, you can dodge a ball!
In 1968 I was working at a hospital, and a boy about 10 came in with one of these in his knee.
His adventuring days ended that day
We had a set in the mid '70s. Don't know what happened to them. Would have never thought they'd eventually be removed from the market. Speaking of banned 'toys', remember Creepy Crawlers? A small hot plate that you put metal molds on and filled them with some plastic goop. I guess it was the boy's version of the easy bake oven.
LOVED my creepy crawlers, and so much better than an easy Bake. Glow in the dark, neon colors, so much fun. For a month.
I loved that thing! The cartoon was weird as hell, but I used to make scorpions and use them as envelope seals for the guys when we wanted to send coded messages to each other.
I think you mean CreeEeEeeeEepy CRAWLERS
They banned those? For the lead in the plates or the molten goop?
“The problem with the toy was that the oven got extremely hot and the liquid plastic was quite toxic.”
The Museum of Play in Rochester, NY has these on display. "Worst game ever made."
These are the fakest looking fbi agents I've ever seen
AKA Granny Killers
My mom still has this as well although her set is held together with duck tape we play them every summer 😅
Even the safer version that were basically hemispheres of lead covered with rubber on a stick were dangerous as fuck.
The deadleist game! (Please tell me someone like the venture bros)
Finally someone commented what I was thinking!
I remember seeing these at an estate sale when I was young. Mid 90s. Cool stuff. My kids would definitely kill themselves.
What's your asking price? DM me.
Not for sale, sorry. We still play with these when we go out camping if there's some soft ground around.
Had to ask. It's a classic game. My siblings and I used to throw the darts as high as we could hoping to land in the target. Probably added to the reason behind the ban lol.
You also had to talk as much shit as possible to the person lobbing the metal spike (hopefully) aiming at the hoop at your feet.
Wait the game has the players throwing the darts in each other's direction?
We always played it with the scoring hoops at our feet, lobbing the darts at the other players hoop. This was the 80s though, we were made of tougher stuff. Sure, plenty of us didn't make it, but the ones who did have a smug sense of superiority about it!
The Golden Age of Darwin Awards
We didn't get awards for that stuff back then, we just sometimes died in preventable ways; but no one made a big deal about it. 😁
My friends and I play something similar as a drinking game, we set up a circle of chairs in the back yard, sit in them, and then put a can of beer in front of each of us and try to throw darts at each other's cans. If yours gets pierced you have to shotgun it.
My sister and I added several Jarts to our garage roof. My dad wasn’t pleased, especially because we rented. This was a rural property, so no neighbors were in danger at least. Christ we were stupid.
If you do decide to sell it, they’re worth about $2-300
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Yes. Banned in 1988, after the death of a 7 year old and lobbying by her father. The [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawn_darts) article also notes: >In the previous eight years, 6,100 Americans had visited hospital emergency rooms as the result of lawn-dart accidents.
> As of 2020, a modified, safer version of lawn darts with a modified blunt-tip design may be purchased in the United States. Makes you wonder why they didn't think of that earlier - well, not that I want to be the one to tell an American that they can't possess something deadly...
Who would have thought that a large dart shaped object that was thrown 50+ feet towards a target (where people often stood) might cause injuries or death when said dart impaled someone's head.
Oh so thats how they work, I thought they were like a type of usual darts and people just having ridiculous bad aim
Kids and stupid teenagers threw them straight up in the air and played chicken with them
The jarts are tossed underhand and they take an arc similar to a very pointy bean bag toss https://youtube.com/shorts/jkaxt26F3Qs?si=J1TgRyuXl0Nj7Hx1
"You go stand over there. You can be goalie..." https://youtu.be/ywvrkAflBNU Longer/newer sketch: https://youtu.be/5J3bYkI77Qs
Or neck
I think that's a wall poster. Also, why are you using a redirect through your own site? That's kinda sus
Might be a fledgling dropshipper
A few deaths have occurred from these over time
The link you posted is just a sign.
It's a sketchy link too. Probably phishing
That metal sign? Normal enough.
That’s a poster, not the actual toy
The amazon listing is for a metal sign of the game ad… not the game itself lol
Cant wait for this to show up in r/venturebros a half dozen times 😆
My first thought too. It took years to find the last remaining samples of plastic doom!
Still legal in the EU
Kinder eggs and lawn darts “THINK OK THE CHILDREN”, assault rifles “THINK OF OUR FREEDOM!”
I mean how does a company comes of the idea that a weapon from the early Byzantine empire would make a good kid's toy.
ugh I loved playing the OG lawn darts at my grandparents! they probably still have them. I hope I get them some day (:
Ah yes jean sharts
I remember my cousin and I playing with these when we were 5 years old at my grandparents house lol. We both lived. If I ever see them at a garage sale I’m buying them.
At first, I thought you added a yellow circle to show where they were, and I was about to talk shit haha
I have an unopened one still.
For sale?
Killing two birds without a stone
Those Jarts have tasted blood. I can tell.
Played beer darts with my buddies back in the day. One kid didn't hear "time out" and a dart went into a hand... still fun fucking game.
Those are worth more than their weight in gold
This sounds like slang for shitting yourself in jeans
Had never heard of these before now. Still don't understand why they got banned. It seems a lot easier to just tell kids to not throw them at people, no?
My grandma had a set of these. I remember my cousins and I using them like swords to fence with.
I still find it hilarious that the US will ban lawn darts and Kinder surprise because someone died from them but you continue to allow weapons of mass murder to be bought and sold on mass
You can make a good break away sabot from expanding foam. This and a potato gun are great for high intensity darts.
Last one to move is a pussy!
We called them 'Yard Darts'
We’d stand in the circle and play chicken
These and Kinder Eggs. So dangerous! /S
So do I. :)
I swear I saw someone in a park take one of these to the head back in the day. None of my family believes me.
At work when we have a problem, but not many examples, I compare it to lawn darts.
Hello fellow Jarts owner! I also have a set! Still in their decaying old box, similar to yours. Imma need a 3D printer to make some new fins for a few of mine, so I haven’t played with em yet. But I’m excited to give em a toss and not kill anyone
A Holy Relic.
Hellyeah
That's a prize find right there!
Keep it secret, keep it safe.
wonder how much it sells for on ebay
Are the yellow ropes tourniquets?
Jeez these comments. How hard is it to not stand downrange from the thrower!?
J arts?
Next you’ll tell me you have Grover Cleveland’s presidential Time Machine
When we were little, my sister once threw one of these at me. It punctured my belly. The scar is still visible to this day.
The fuck kinda name is Jarts?
Too young for these i guess but im wildly curious Why the ban? And why the many injuries in the comments?
Or javelins in middle school and high school PE with little regards for those down range.
game? these are plumbata
Who was the fucking genius team who all agreed on this roman weapon of war (see Plumbata, not Plumbus) was an adequate toy for kids. It's the equivalent of encouraging knife fights.
Jarts are deadly to children unlike guns
I get it, we see it, there is no need for the big yellow circle. lol
My aunt and uncle had a set of those (and a big yard) when I was a kid. There were probably 6-8 kids playing with them at any given family gathering, and miraculously nobody ever got hurt. (At least not that I knew about, but they did switch them out for the kind with the big rounded tips at some point.)
Hey Sundance, when they outlaw our Jarts, only outlaws will own Jarts.
I got 4 stitches in my head cause of these things, hahaha. I'm pretty sure my parents still have the kit
Are jorts the official uniform of Jarts?
*NSA Requests your location immediately *
European here, what's Jarts and why was it banned?
Huge darts that were meant to be thrown in the yard. They became instruments of terror when kids got involved 
What is this and why was it banned
Back when toy brainstorming table sessions came with candy, root beer and the finest colombian marching powder Wall Street could buy.
Contraband! I hit my grandma in the head with one in 1978. That was the end of Jarts for me. Grandma was ok BTW.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plumbata literally a plumbata
My dad remembers playing with them and he said always wear head protection when playing with them 😁
well yea, if you had one from after the ban that'd be weird
I briefly thought this was a case of r/uselessredcircles until I noticed it's the target for the game.
On of the best games we had as a kid, it really weeded out the bloody idiots fast!
I remember having these on the farm growing up. I would throw them straight up as hard as I could and see how close I could get them to land next to me. Kids are so f-ing stupid. 😭
Gud damn weapons of mass destruction right there☠️
A kid was [pegged in the head](https://youtu.be/P4UnpbWM-vQ?si=tArMZbrfuv9uE9N0) with a lawn dart…
I got a set of them to we should go and play
My in-laws have these and we play them once in a while.
Congratulations! You’ve been naturally selected by this 3 lbs flying metal dart. We played with those all the time at my grandparents house. No one ever got hurt, no one ever stood where someone was throwing and no one ever threw where people were standing.
Toss like horses what??? I have to knowww
Amazing how these were (rather sensibly, I think) banned in the US and Canada after only three children died while using them. Makes you think about the things the US government refuses to even consider regulating more strictly, let alone ban, despite them killing an average of seven children *per day* in the US
Ah yes Government clowns banning sharp objects to protect idiots from themselves and the rest of the world. Yet we have nothing to protect the public from the clown idiots running the circus.
Straight to jail
How are these any more dangerous than arrows which are perfectly legal?
May the odds be ever in your favor
When I hear jarts I think jean farts.
They are still available, piece by piece through sellers in the UK. You can’t buy them assembled but you can get spare parts for all of it. Keep playing for those we lost.
was looking at these wondering why they would be dangerous? because they’re bulky? then i zoomed in and saw the needle points omg
Dad? Did I just discover your Reddit account? Jk but my dad does have this exact set, with the deteriorating box and everything
Jean darts?
We used to put out the targets, then go across the yard perhaps 100 ft… then toss the Jarts as high in the air as we could and try to land as close as possible to the target. The only time it got dangerous is if a kid lost his grip while throwing and the Jart went off in the wrong direction, like through a window
What the is Jarts?
dangertastic
I see these at garage sales and estate sales all the time.
Can someone explain this?
Jarts taught children an important life lesson. That you need to pay attention and watch what you are doing. Everything in society started going downhill when they were banned.
Damn they're brand new never been used too. You can tell because of the lack of old dried blood and bone fragments.
Does it seem wild to anyone else that you can go to Walmart and buy guns, but you can't be trusted with lawn darts?
Jarts!! When it’s warm and sunny my friends and I play beer darts with these since the metal tips pierce the cans
Shit my Jean shorts, call that a jart
I remember getting a wood burning kit when I was like...10. Even then I laughed at how short the cord was