Originally posted by Inkwolf
My previous bike was a Huffy. I was happy enough with it, and it was good enough to be listed in a bike-buying guide as the lowest-end best choice for the year. 
I had a Huffy when I was a kid. Actually it had a pretty tough frame. It was very heavy though. The components were crap and threatened to fail all the time. I would ride a few miles and then spend 5 minutes readjusting everything so I could do things like shift and brake or clear the brake-drag. This is why I cdnsider them dangerous. OTOH, I happened to glance at a few dept. store bikes while at Target the other day and noticed that some of the frames had incomplete welds. This worries me since as a kid I think I abused my bikes more than as an adult and having a frame failure while jumping my bike off the parent's deck would sure have ruined my whole day. I'm sure that kids these days aren't going to be much tamer on their bikes.