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When I was about 5 or 6 i got up early before my parents did. left the house for a few hours with a cane pole and string and a small hook and some bread, caught 4 or so creek chubs back in the woods. Came home and got yelled at - not for being out, or being by myself near a deep creek, but what the hell was I gonna do with 4 creek chubs? :)   I Fed the cats.

 

Yeah its different today.

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Yes. We had lawn darts, chemistry set(My brother became a chemical engineer), wood burning set, arc welder, auto parts cleaner machine, guns, ammo reloading equipment, raced cars and used chain saws to cut wood to heat our house. And we turned out just fine.

"The Nation Which Forgets Its Defenders, Will Itself Be Forgotten".

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Lawn Darts! How we survived I'll never know :) I can VERY distinctly remember throwing these as high as we could, one time, we lost control of it (as kids would who want to throw things higher and farther than anyone else) and it flew up 20 feet, down 20 feet, over in the neighbor's yard. :eek:. Thank God no one was over there. I remember it almost like it was yesterday.

 

I can VERY easily see someone getting hurt or killed with these things - I'm not one to go all mamby-pamby about regulations about these kinds of things, but now that I'm older I look at these things and wonder "What the hell were they thinking?" As a kid, I loved them though :-)

 

I'm not sure, but I think it is illegal to sell them - even used (obviously, they aren't making new ones today).

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Back in the 70s, when the NJ State Fair was the Branchville Fair, our parents dropped us off at the fair on Monday with our heifer, a bag of food, and a couple of dollars.  They came back and got us on Friday.  They would get life in prison for doing that today.   :rofl:    

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 chemistry set

 

Ah... yes, I had one of those, too. I went to open one of the jars (why they made these things for kids, only to make the jars extremely hard to open??) and it was stuck so I pulled on the tab on the lid hard, flew open, chemicals went into my eyes. I have no idea what it was, probably wasn't that harmful, but I ran into the bathroom to wash my eyes out while yelling up to my mom what happened. She took me to the ER, had the eye wash on me for like 30 minutes. When I got home, found out mom didn't waste any time - the chemistry set was in the trash. Again, remember it like it was yesterday.

 

I wonder sometimes how I survived some of the things that happened to me :)

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Ah... yes, I had one of those, too. I went to open one of the jars (why they made these things for kids, only to make the jars extremely hard to open??) and it was stuck so I pulled on the tab on the lid hard, flew open, chemicals went into my eyes. I have no idea what it was, probably wasn't that harmful, but I ran into the bathroom to wash my eyes out while yelling up to my mom what happened. She took me to the ER, had the eye wash on me for like 30 minutes. When I got home, found out mom didn't waste any time - the chemistry set was in the trash. Again, remember it like it was yesterday.

 

I wonder sometimes how I survived some of the things that happened to me :)

When I was a teenager, I was into taxidermy and I remember one time injecting formaldehyde into the neck of a duck and it blew back into my eyes. My mom washed them out as best as possible and took me to the ER. I remember laying on a table with water dripping into my eyes. They then put yellow strip on my eyes to see if they were burned. Only my left eye was burned a little bit. I wore goggles after that.

"The Nation Which Forgets Its Defenders, Will Itself Be Forgotten".

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Lawn Darts! How we survived I'll never know :) I can VERY distinctly remember throwing these as high as we could, one time, we lost control of it (as kids would who want to throw things higher and farther than anyone else) and it flew up 20 feet, down 20 feet, over in the neighbor's yard. :eek:. Thank God no one was over there. I remember it almost like it was yesterday.

 

I can VERY easily see someone getting hurt or killed with these things - I'm not one to go all mamby-pamby about regulations about these kinds of things, but now that I'm older I look at these things and wonder "What the hell were they thinking?" As a kid, I loved them though :-)

 

I'm not sure, but I think it is illegal to sell them - even used (obviously, they aren't making new ones today).

LOL great memories, I grew up in a small cap cod style house, we use to play lawn dart extreme and had our teams set on each side of the house one two front two back. We would throw them over the house from front to back and back to front. News flash we're still all alive lol

Not a complete a$$ hole just one of the dingle berries that hang off it.

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