Originally posted by IkNOwSTuff
You all laugh but you ever try catching a Boomerang when its coming back..... Its fricken hurts!!!!!!!

Common sense should tell people not to throw them in a public place but I wouldnt have an issue if they got banned............

I just thought about how ridiculous that sounds

I would love to watch parliament the day they discuss that

As for the rest of the stuff they banned, BBguns, potato cannons, fireworks etc etc I grew up without these things and dont feel like I missed out. Maybe it was a good thing!!!!
Instead of pretending or trying to shoot/kill each other we went bike riding, frog hunting, played chasey or went knick knocking, good healthy fun

Originally posted by Timely

Originally posted by IkNOwSTuff
You all laugh but you ever try catching a Boomerang when its coming back..... Its fricken hurts!!!!!!!

Common sense should tell people not to throw them in a public place but I wouldnt have an issue if they got banned............

I just thought about how ridiculous that sounds

I would love to watch parliament the day they discuss that

As for the rest of the stuff they banned, BBguns, potato cannons, fireworks etc etc I grew up without these things and dont feel like I missed out. Maybe it was a good thing!!!!
Instead of pretending or trying to shoot/kill each other we went bike riding, frog hunting, played chasey or went knick knocking, good healthy fun

Don't want to sound rude ... but, are you an Aussie male?

edit on 18-1-2013 by Timely because: had to add the huey face

Originally posted by xxdaniel21


Oh, did you guys know that we are also culling sharks because they are killing people who surf near them?

Originally posted by Grimpachi
Here is a small list of banned items in Australia but it should be mentioned guns were first.

Air guns (bb Guns), Sling shots, Cross bows, Potato guns (spud cannon), fireworks, Paintball guns especially semi auto, and soon to be on the list boomerangs then sticks and stones.



They have pretty much outlawed my entire childhood at least 90% of it.

edit on 17-1-2013 by Grimpachi because: you cant make this stuff up

Those who witnessed Aboriginal cultures in the early colonial times left us different accounts. For example, the marine explorer Phillip Parker King observed in 1818 that a boomerang ‘is used by the natives with success in killing the kangaroo.’ Aborigines throw the boomerang ‘making it revolve on itself, and with such a velocity that one cannot see it ... only the whizzing of it is heard’ reported Francis Barrallier in 1802. An average hunting boomerang of about 500 grams looks like a thin soaring edge in flight, ‘but where it strikes, it breaks through with excessive impetus.’ It is an effective missile within a range of 200 metres. This is nearly three times the range of a hand-thrown spear. In experienced hands the boomerang can be a deadly weapon.