You can purchase modern ones, toys, that are much easier to operate but a traditional one is pretty hard to get to return and all but impossible to get to come back to exactly where you are standing.
Pretty amazing that people used to hunt and fight with them. Google tells me that boomerangs are the first heavier-than-air man-made flying objects. They’re a lot more interesting than I would have guessed.
Having it return to your general vicinity was enough. The point was not to lose it if you missed, not avoid having to move to pick it up. And unlike modern ones, toys, it had to be heavy enough to kill something so having it come back and hit you was not a good thing.
Not at such close quarters. What the store owner should have done is pull out his oaken staff from behind the counter and pummeled that fool with the 2 foot sword. Wait a minute! Since when is a two foot blade a Samurai sword? That’s shorter than a Roman Gladius. Maybe he was dressed like a Samurai, but he was wielding a short sword or some kind of dirk.
You don’t find boomerangs interesting? They think people were using them 25,000 years ago. When the libs take our guns, boomerangs will make a comeback.