Why? The kid lives in Texas. 
He’s now a handsome prince.
I myself prefer to use D Cell batteries wrapped in duct tape. And just like the ad says, “It keeps going and going”.
Hey thanks for the explanation guys. I now know what a “Potato Gun” is.
The only deviant projectile device I used when I was a kid was the 'ol Sling Shot (firing lit firecrackers).
They’re actually great fun to use if handled with respect. You’ve got to brace the base against your thigh and it makes a loud “twhuuuunk” noise when it goes off. We get the max distance away and try and catch them with our hat. Shoot one into the broad side of a barn and only a wet spot will remain of the potato.
The fact you’re spraying an aerosol into a chamber with a juryrigged Bic lighter in it and then screwing the lid tight before firing does cause frequent misfires. One of the kids obviously was still twirling the ignitor when the boy looked in.
Now, I’m even more confused.
Hit him with the frog now!
Does anyone remember the “Spud Gun”? It was a white metal hand gun. You poked the tip of the barrel into a potato and it plugged the end with a small cylinder of potato (smalller than a pencil eraser). Pulling the trigger was actually plunging one part of the barrel into the other.
You could never use a frog as ammo’ though.
This is interesting. The potato gun I had would’ve killed him at that range–this gun must not’ve been quite as powered. Mine definitely could’ve put a potato through the side of a barn.
I never shot myself with the gun. However, I did singe my hair pretty badly with the combustion chamber once.
I think the scariest thing about that website is that it calls itself the:
That’s a pretty high-tech fucking weapon for shooting a tuber!
ultrafilter, the article linked to by neuroman says that the kid would have been killed if the gun had fired a potato. It seems that he was saved by softness of the projectile amphibian.
Spud guns, go wild.
http://www.mcphee.com/bigindex/current/10762.html
I still use mine occasionally at concerts, forestry meets, and black tie affairs.
Quite a good rib; it was funny.
I think I’ll move to Idaho and plant from the porch.
Jeez, that poor frog! Someone needs to file animal cruelty charges against the Einstien with the gun!
Another senseless frog-related injury. When will they learn?
I did some pretty stupid things as a teenager, but I don’t ever recall blasting a frog into my face or looking down the barrel of a CANNON.
Can you imagine how horrifying and digusting it would be to witness a FROG being fired into some kid’s face?
Too bad it wasn’t on camera. Oh my God! Do you think Jackass would do it and tape it? People would pay to see that.
Thanks, Telemark
They look a little different, but they’re what I was thinking. And only $6 a pair!
cool!
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Mine, too. It scared me knowing it could launch a russet that far–must’ve been some hellacious stress in the combustion chamber.
I had recurrent thoughts of my son finding it and trying it out, and it grenading.
I dismantled it.
I don’t know what’s worse-the kids injuries, you sick people making jokes about, or myself for laughing at the mental image.
Actually, I heard the kid was playing army. He just didn’t realize that the army uses towed artillery. Sad, injured because of his Texas accent.
Peace-DESK