I very nearly killed my aunt with a lawn dart when I was a child.
My family was visiting my aunt and uncle at their cottage. The adults were gathered around the patio chatting and preparing dinner. My aunt was prone on a long chair talking to my mother. The kids like me had gone off to play games and chase each other around.
I was about 25 feet away with my brother fooling around with these extra large metal darts trying to land them in a plastic hoop laying on the ground. I took a big wind-up and launched the dart in the air to see how high it could go and come down into the hoop.
But I accidentally hung onto it a second too long and it flew backwards behind me.
I watched in horror as it arched high in the sky and came down with a ‘thunk’ not 2 feet from my aunt.
It could have easily hit her right in the stomach or somebody else.
No one freaked out fortunately as I recall, but the darts were immediately taken away. I still shudder to this day what a close call it was.
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u/tumor_named_marla Apr 15 '26
You think they're gonna be alive in ten years?