Don't try this at home!

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This has got to be one of the worst ideas of all time! Encouraging kids to play with fire!

Can't see any problems with that toy...but then when I was a kid living up on Shadow Mtn Rd, we made salt shaker bombs with gun powder right in the middle of the road. I'll bet that part that puts off the sparks doesn't last all that long you have to keep buying some sort of refill. I'm also pretty sure it will be banned before long.

CynicalBill wrote: Can't see any problems with that toy...but then when I was a kid living up on Shadow Mtn Rd, we made salt shaker bombs with gun powder right in the middle of the road. I'll bet that part that puts off the sparks doesn't last all that long you have to keep buying some sort of refill. I'm also pretty sure it will be banned before long.

So you wouldn't have a problem with kids riding that in your neighborhood? Knowing kids they won't necessarily limit themselves to riding on roads or paved areas. In the right conditions, they don't even need to go over the grasses, just ride close enough to it!

I agree with jf1acai, this is NOT a good idea!!

These videos are from 2009 & 2010. So this product has been out for a few years now with no reports of mis-use. Also from the looks of it you can only throw sparks when scooting on a hard roughed surface that will activate the "flint" like asphalt or concrete. It did not work on the tile floor in one of the videos until they scooted over a roughed strip. So no worries about scooting down a dried grassy slope and igniting a wildland fire. Unless of course we pave the wilderness roads (see Guanella Pass thread in The Ring)

I don't want to give anyone ideas, but I can think of lots of ways to utilize this on dirt roads, and with some imagination create lots of potential havoc.

But maybe that is just me, I got in plenty of trouble as a kid too!