What about products that are more dangerous than supposedly dangerous product they replaced? Fuel cans are 10x more accident prone than those earlier.
85Hokie we made sure safty measures were in place before engaging in games. Take our Catapult Game for instance. We made certain there were no overhead power lines or anything that might bump heads and a soft landing not likely to break anything. Our group that ranged from 2 to 5 boys depending on how many were grounded on any given day would spontaneously begin climbing, pulling limbs on a tall sapling tree on a 10-20 foot bank overlooking Red River. Naturally the new kid joined in and as the tree top neared the ground someone would instruct new kid to straddle and sit on trunk near top. On que everyone let go causing tree to spring upright throwing new kid far out into the river.As a kid that came up in the ol skateboard era ( steel wheels at first) We would get ahold of the mail truck or the UPS truck and as he drove up the street we would grab that back handrail and ride up the street without the driver even knowing - yeah we were dumb kids....
but I don't think I will ever see a sticker on the back of a UPS truck that says " no free skateboard rides allowed"
IF WE all go back that tell stories of the stupid asinine things we did as kids - hell, all of us would be millionaires!!!
Remember placing Billy on the steel trash can AFTER dropping the lit M80 in the can watching him rise up??? OK - maybe ya'll didnt do that stuff we did!
However - stupid is still king, and somehow WE"LL all pay for it!!!
(On a side note = I cant wait to hear other crazy stories of younger days!)