On: Was this the most dangerous children's toy?

[Forge36]

Size and weight. Combined with "thrown haphazardly into the air".

With a normal dart you poke an eye out. With lawn darts you poke a heart out.

Also many darts for kids these days are plastic.

[ghaff → Forge36]

I'm not sure traditional metal-tipped pub darts are a particularly great example of an ideal kid's toy either.

Safety concerns can sometimes seem over the top but, if you look at "dangerous toys" lists with a modern eye, they mostly do seem like things it makes sense to pass on.

[blacksmith_tb → Forge36]

I would expect most of the injuries from the forbidden sharp lawn darts to have been to the head and/or shoulders? To 'poke a heart out' you'd need the victim to be laying down on the ground, which kids do obviously do, but presumably a little less when they see things raining down from the sky.

[aerostable_slug → blacksmith_tb]

It all depends on how you throw them — they can come in at a pretty shallow angle.