When we think of lawn games, we usually don’t think of them as being life-threatening. However, lawn darts are one lawn game that was actually outlawed for causing several deaths.
In this article, we’re going to look at the dark history of lawn darts, how they were invented, and the awful mistake that caused them to disappear off the face of the Earth.
Lawn darts were invented sometime during the 1950s by a dentist named Lawrence Barnett. Lawn darts are sort of a combination of horseshoe pitching and darts.
Michelle Snow, a seven-year-old girl, was killed by a lawn dart. A friend of her brother’s threw a lawn dart up in the air and it came down on her head causing fatal brain trauma.