http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3022874 (http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3022874)
I saw this one last night and couldn't help but laugh. The ad portrays a 5ish boy child running through the house with the equipment on full tilt.
Right, let's occupy the child's hands, obstruct his vision, disorient him w/ a voice modifier, and then send him running through an obstacle course of hard edged ikea furniture [clap]
Quote from: cbartlett419 on November 01, 2008, 08:28:19 AM
Right, let's occupy our hands, obstruct our vision with helmets, disorient ourselves w/ a voice modifier and earplugs, and then send ourselves running through an obstacle course of hard edged/sided vehicles [clap]
Isn't this what we do to ourselves every day on our Ducs, in some form or another? Except at higher speeds right?
The Doc
I want that.....
Don't forget about the Oozinatortm! [thumbsup]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdAIt4MgnHc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdAIt4MgnHc)
[laugh]
i grew up making forts out of rusting farm equipment with my cousins, rarely supervised... if some kid can't handle a plastic helmet, then that's just darwin getting started early
Quote from: krolik on November 01, 2008, 05:01:06 PM
Don't forget about the Oozinatortm! [thumbsup]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdAIt4MgnHc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdAIt4MgnHc)
[laugh]
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That shit is about as funny as the vibrating broomstick that came out a couple of years ago ;D
Quote from: aaronb on November 01, 2008, 08:17:31 PM
+11tyb
i grew up making forts out of rusting farm equipment with my cousins, rarely supervised... if some kid can't handle a plastic helmet, then that's just darwin getting started early
I dug elaborate snow tunnels in snowbanks around my house. In hindsight I was lucky they didn't collapse and trap me, though I think I could have dug my way out (what's a couple of feet of snow when you are armed with an ice cream bucket?)
I got a high-powered BB gun with a scope when I was about 7. And my first rifle when I was 16. I survived just fine, and I have no scars to prove it.
Quote from: Doctor Woodrow on November 01, 2008, 02:40:41 PM
Isn't this what we do to ourselves every day on our Ducs, in some form or another? Except at higher speeds right?
The Doc
i don't ride my bikes in the house. [cheeky]
Quote from: NeufUnSix on November 02, 2008, 07:38:31 AM
I got a high-powered BB gun with a scope when I was about 7. And my first rifle when I was 16. I survived just fine, and I have no scars to prove it.
I don't either, but my friends do
Quote from: cbartlett419 on November 01, 2008, 08:28:19 AM
Right, let's occupy the child's hands, obstruct his vision, disorient him w/ a voice modifier, and then send him running through an obstacle course of hard edged ikea furniture [clap]
Kids are much more safe in a bubble or sitting inf front of a TV/computer.
[roll]
Quote from: krolik on November 01, 2008, 05:01:06 PM
Don't forget about the Oozinatortm! [thumbsup]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdAIt4MgnHc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdAIt4MgnHc)
[laugh]
Way funny but I thought that kind of stuff was illegal! ;D
Quote from: IZ on November 02, 2008, 08:29:30 AM
Kids are much more safe in a bubble or sitting inf front of a TV/computer.
[roll]
Right I get it boys will be boys and all. It's the fundamentals of the thing I find whacky.
Quote from: cbartlett419 on November 01, 2008, 08:28:19 AM
Right, let's occupy the child's hands, obstruct his vision, disorient him w/ a voice modifier, and then send him running through an obstacle course of hard edged ikea furniture [clap]
No need to worry. Read the reviews, the thing doesn't work anyway.
Quote from: NeufUnSix on November 02, 2008, 07:38:31 AM
I got a high-powered BB gun with a scope when I was about 7. And my first rifle when I was 16. I survived just fine, and I have no scars to prove it.
Can you say the same for the neighbourhoods kids, pets etc. ;D ;D ;D
Quote from: Big Troubled Bear on November 03, 2008, 02:07:46 AM
Can you say the same for the neighbourhoods kids, pets etc. ;D ;D ;D
Those that realized their skin was worth more than their lunch money, yes.
[evil]
first time i saw the commercial for that helmet thing, the very first words out of my mouth were "some kid is going to run into something and get hurt and their parents will sue and win!" its sad to say, but somebody will sue when their kid runs into the table and needs stitches.
I never hurt any other kids, but some pigeons remain widows due to my steady aim.
This past Friday, Halloween night, I saw a young mother ferrying her 1 or 2 year old daughter around house to house in a radio flyer wagon. Not just any radio flyer wagon mind you, this thing was completely made of plastic.
(http://www.all-kids-stuff.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/red-wagon.jpg)
I was thinking to myself how they ruined a classic because a metal one would just be too dangerous to let a child play with. Then I saw the logo
(http://www.cati.com/images/CustomerLogos/logo_radioflyer.jpg)
and remembered some good times and wondered how I must have survived my youth doing all the hooligan antics that would end up in a lawsuit now a days.
I miss my
(http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/radioflyer/18.jpg)
I had one like the last one. However, mine had the optional wooden removable side panels!
JM
we used to "surf" on the wagon down the dirt hills, and race them down the asphalt ones.
i learned to ride a bike on the same hill we raced the wagons on. i slid about 6 ft on my face (mostly my top lip right onder my nose)
for some reason the hair there grows a bit oddly. [laugh]
the traditional Radial Flier still exists, folks:
http://www.redwagons.com/fonsizradfly.html (http://www.redwagons.com/fonsizradfly.html)
and thank god for them...
Soap box derby anyone? :D
I watched a bunch of engineering students have a coaster derby a few weeks ago. Imagine souped up, 500 pound carts with disc brakes, rack and pinion steering, roll cages, and shoddy build quality. It was incredibly dangerous and fun! Wheels were literally flying off into the crowd, one guy lost his brakes and jammed his steering and veered straight into a group of timing officials, and the on-track wheel to wheel grinding was incredible. All of this was done in the rain, so traction was nonexistent and the carts were sliding and spinning all over the place. Good old fashioned destructive fun, something kids these days will never know outside of video games (if those don't get banned too).