| My car has been smashed up so I am thinking about getting something much cooler. Since I have been old enought to think going fast in cars (about 2 years old)was cool I have wanted a Corvette (had one) and a GTO. I remember when I was about 8 and I was riding with my mom on 470 and a car passed us doing about 150MPH and I was blown away. I ask my mom what was that and she said that was a GTO and I told her that I must have one. Well I now think I have the chance to get a sweet deal on a 2004. "The car I alwayse wanted and now I own.(maybe) I RULE"
     
http://motortrend.com/roadtests/coupe/112_0312_gto/ |
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| Once I get my pilots licens I am going to try lawn darts from the plane. I will need some help with people on the ground to score the game for me. Also, let me know if you would like to be target. I hope to be done with my licens by march so be ready. |
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| I found this artical and it sounds like my childhood. I would like to own a set if anyone has some let me know!!!!
I was a child in the late 70's and early 80's and one of the backyard games I grew up loving to play was Jarts. Jarts were also known as Yard Darts or Lawn Darts. Whatever the Hell you called it, it was fun. And dangerous. Did I already say fun? Jarts were an extremely popular game back in the day. The object of ther game was to throw the 12 inch lawn dart that a heavy weighted tip at a target set so many feet away. It was kind of like the game horseshoes, without the horse stink. And it was more fun. Because it was dangerous.
What is fun without danger? We would soon find out. In the year 1988, the Consumer Product Safety Commision banned yard darts, making them illegal to sell or even play in the United States. You can be arrested for selling or even playing the game. Why you ask? Because between 1978 and 1987, 6,700 lawn dart related injuries, three-fourths of which were sustained by children and only God knows how many dogs and cats lost lives to these steel tipped daggers of death. Personally, it sounds like some parents needed to put down the beer can and watch what the kids were up to, but as usual, people can't be held accountable and the easiest thing to do was to ban the game.
Not only did I play the game as I kid, but not to long ago I bought a set of the darts. The picture above is the set that I currently own. It is a little more rare than some you might find since it shows kids playing the game on the box front. I tried to sell them on ebay and the price hit the near $100 mark when the ebay police stopped my auction. Assholes. You can buy swords, stun guns and chinese throwing stars on eBay, but it's a big no-no to sell yard darts. So I decided to defy the law and see if I could really be arrested for playing yard darts.
I tested my local police force by playing yard darts in my front yard. I relived my childhood moments where we used to toss them as high in the sky as possible and avoid them as they crashed to Earth. Nothing. No police. So played a few beer induced rounds, impaling the darts in a tree, a fence, the side of my house and a neighbors car. Nothing. A cop drove by and waved. He could have at least got me for public intoxication. Finally, as a journalist, I knew what I had to do - I called the police and told them I was playing yard darts and that it was illegal and they could arrest me if they wanted to. The dispatcher lady just said, "Ok, Honey, we'll send someone over". Nothing. It has been over a month now and nothing. So, if you want some yard darts, I say buy them and play. Apparently the laws aren't enforced. Have fun and try not to make a dog-kabob out of the family mutt.
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| Happy Thanksgiving all. I waved at you as I flew over lee's summit this afternoon. oh yeah, and i waved to matt too, at least in the general direction of albuqurue. |
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