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dangerous toys of the past

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@phil-a-dork said
@lemondrop

Marbles were better in the slingshot if you couldn't afford ball bearings.

I would cook a marble and then drop it in cold water which would cause it to fracture but stay together. Then when you used it in a slingshot it would shatter when you hit something. 😉
Great for breaking windows in old cars at a junk yard! 🙂.....So, I have been told! 😉

-VR

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@very-rusty said
Yup, it was dangerous. I almost put my cousin's eye out, hit him just above the eye.

That put an end to the sling shots.

-VR
when I got my first hit it was the beginning


@lemondrop said
when I got my first hit it was the beginning
Yes, but I could have taken his eye out, he took 4 or 5 stitches to close it.

He was one of the younger kids that shouldn't have been there to begin with.

He remembers it to this very day! No hard feelings about it, we were just young and not so bright.

-VR

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@very-rusty said
Yes, but I could have taken his eye out, he took 4 or 5 stitches to close it.

He was one of the younger kids that shouldn't have been there to begin with.

He remembers it to this very day! No hard feelings about it, we were just young and not so bright.

-VR
a friend shot me in the lip with his BB gun
when I asked him why he shot me in the lip
he apologized, said he was just aiming for my head


@lemondrop said
a friend shot me in the lip with his BB gun
when I asked him why he shot me in the lip
he apologized, said he was just aiming for my head
LOL.....Did you except the apology?!

-VR

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@very-rusty said
LOL.....Did you except the apology?!

-VR
yes
he still had the gun

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@very-rusty said
If you use rocks as ammunition it becomes a weapon for sure!

-VR
I was caught by the ‘down the road gang’, held hostage and threatened by the village doctor’s son. He had a rifle with a cork stuck in it, attached to the cork was a string. “Let’s give it to her right between the eyes!” he said. Then they let me run home in a terrified state back to my ‘up the hill gang’. I couldn’t speak for a while due to the realisation that you can sometimes get caught 😮

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@drewnogal

Damn kids 😏

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chinese handcuffs


Jacks...worse to have stepped on one with bare feet than Leggos.

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@drewnogal said
I was caught by the ‘down the road gang’, held hostage and threatened by the village doctor’s son. He had a rifle with a cork stuck in it, attached to the cork was a string. “Let’s give it to her right between the eyes!” he said. Then they let me run home in a terrified state back to my ‘up the hill gang’. I couldn’t speak for a while due to the realisation that you can sometimes get caught 😮
You should be happy nothing worse happened to you, because as you know it could have been a whole lot worse!

-VR