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Title: Vegetable weapons arms race heats up.
Post by: Thrawn on October 19, 2002, 11:47:18 AM

"Ind. man builds pumpkin-shooting cannon
By Associated Press, 10/18/02

ELLETTSVILLE, Ind. — When Jim Bristoe told his wife he wanted to build a cannon that would shoot a pumpkin a mile, she told him he wasn't all there.

But he built one anyway, with a 30-foot-long barrel. It is powered by a 700-gallon air tank and is appropriately named "Ain't All There." It looks much like a mobile anti-aircraft gun.

"You don't need to cover your ears, but you're going to know I shot it," the 42-year-old electrician and mechanic said during a demonstration on Wednesday. "

http://www.boston.com/news/daily/18/odds_cannon.htm

Title: Vegetable weapons arms race heats up.
Post by: Fatty on October 19, 2002, 11:59:46 AM

Has it been fingerprinted yet?

And does he have a license?

Title: Vegetable weapons arms race heats up.
Post by: Mathman on October 19, 2002, 12:13:40 PM

Oh toejam, watch it Fatty.  NRA guys will jump on you for implying that he might have his 2nd Amendment right to bear Pumpkin Projectors infringed upon.

BTW, glad to see that somebody out there knows that pumpkin is a noun and not a lifestyle choice.

Title: Vegetable weapons arms race heats up.
Post by: capt. apathy on October 19, 2002, 12:32:01 PM

ok, forget that other thread, here's the unlimate home defence weapon.

Title: Vegetable weapons arms race heats up.
Post by: whgates3 on October 19, 2002, 09:10:01 PM

is this meant as a defense weapon against that guy in texas who was using a trebuchet to hurl 1970s buicks?