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What overprotective nonsense! Children can hit themselves with most toys! Let them play!
Why do you care? I can't fathom being upset that someone was prevented from importing weighted balls on a string that can explode when hit against something, when their intent was to provide them to children to hit together in front of their faces repeatedly.
Do you have fond memories of smacking balls together that you can't get from ABS plastic, or do you think the government need to raise its tolerance for products it knows cause injury?
Why do you care? I can’t fathom being upset that someone was prevented from importing weighted balls on a string that can explode when hit against something, when their intent was to provide them to children to hit together in front of their faces repeatedly.
We are taking control of our evolution. Evolution is fighting back. Thus is the natural balance restored.
That's the dumbest notion I've heard in quite some time. "We should let people get hurt because we're too good at not getting hurt".
Imagine if I was being serious ...
Where do you get that they could explode?
I clicked the link to what they were in the Wikipedia page and read it. It explained that that was why they were banned.
Versions that didn't explode in a pointy way next to your face weren't banned.
There is no "link to what they were in the Wikipedia page", I had looked for that before I commented. If you're referring to a specific reference it would be great if you could share which one, as none of them have a title relating to "what those clacker balls were".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clackers?wprov=sfla1
If you open the article that's linked, the first paragraph has a link to clackers.
Given that we're talking about clackers, I figured the entry about "clackers" would describe what they are.
Outside of the entry linked, if you Google "why were clackers banned" you get any number sources.
Clacker balls (not necessarily of the style of those in this case)
This kind of reminds me of something youd find in a fallout game on some old terminal, or you find a hoard of them in some room
I still have some metal lawn darts (jarts) from my grandma, we used to play with them all the time over there.
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