Flaming football: toy fireball banned

[Timmy]

Flaming football: toy fireball banned

Has anyone seen these little 'beanbag'-type balls, the ones you douse in kerosene, set them alight, then kick them around with your friends? There are videos of them on YouTube etc.

Now, I can understand kids wanting to play with them, boys will be boys after all.

What I don't understand, and this is completely beyond me, is why ANY retailer would be selling these things? Do they come with a sticker from the retailer saying "Sue me now, ask me how!" Incredible....

 

[Agentm]

definately want one of them...

looks great fun..

 

[Robb]

We use to make our own.... get some toilet paper, wrap it in wire (coat hangers/chicken wire) soak them in kero for a few hours then go down to the beach and kick it around for awhile. Good fun.
Its not that much different from the various forms of fire twirling really...

 

[Mofra]

Do they come with a sticker from the retailer saying "Sue me now, ask me how!" Incredible....

Whne you consider it would have to be discussed with designers, marketers, manufacturers, distributers & stockists, it makes you wonder if anyone actually stopped & thought whether this really was such a good idea.

It's not like Australia has a water shortage & a drought which would make a lost one just as dangerous as a caught one