bring back lawn jarts

I haven’t had one yet, but I’ve always wanted to have friends over for an afternoon of drinks and lawn sports. Badminton (an offical Olympic sport), bocce, croquet, horseshoes, perhaps some frisbee tag, and, of course, lawn jarts! No lawn jarts is like no 100m dash, no freestyle swim, no uneven bars. Well, maybe it’s not all that, but I do miss it. I like the front balance of the jart, holding the four plastic fins between my fingers, and lofting it across the yard. Throwing a bocce ball or a horseshoe doesn’t feel like that. But I am not paying a $90 for non-aerodynamic plastic. I can’t believe that I can’t go to the store and pick up a set because 60 pepople a year injure themselves with this game. Oh, well, lawn Olympics is still a good idea.

Stupidest ban ever. I know 6,300 people were injured with lawn jarts/darts between 1978 and 1987. Most of those injuries probably occured to people who thought it was fun to throw them as high in the air as they could and run out of the way while they fall. I know people lost their eye to a jart, but bb guns are still around. People do stupid stuff and get hurt. There are those commercials that use home footage of people doing stupid things and getting hurt. There are Darwin Awards for the ones that die. We can’t ban things because sometimes they are misused or get used without supervision. I want my jarts and I don’t want to pay $100 for a set of plastic darts!