It doesn’t matter if the kid seems dumb, he obviously isn’t. Even if he’d ducked the at the first shot the Poison Arrow Frogs would have landed in an amphibious assault (or would that be amphibian?) and launched high-velocity armor piercing freedom toads at his face.
I am personally working on a centrifugal-force-powered flying squirrel launcher.
If the Punkin Chunkers can launch a pumpkin a third of a mile, I figure once the squirrel unfolds itself I can probably get at least a half-mile worth of angry, sharp-toothed artillery.
Au Contraire, Exgineer. I just took your funny stuff and put it into a sentence. The idea was all yours.
Maybe use a cat as the carrier and attach a bunch of explsive frogs? Our own JSOW. Though since it’s called a SOW maybe we should start testing the aerodynamic qualities of piglets. . .
Agreed. And I’m wondering if he really stuck his face in front of the gun, or just happened to be directly in the line of fire.
From the linked article:
So it sounds like he didn’t take part in the decision to shoot anything out of the gun, frog or otherwise, but rather ambled over to offer assistance, and the gun went off when no one was expecting it to. That doesn’t necessarily indicate stupidity. One Fourth of July, I stuck my head out a window to watch the fireworks display over the Cuyahoga, not realizing that my sister’s neighbors were setting off bottle rockets almost directly beneath me. If they hadn’t called out a warning, I might have ended up like Berry, and that wouldn’t have been my fault, either.
“Joel Suprise sells potato guns full-time at an Internet Web site from Wisconsin. There is no such thing as a delayed ignition, he said. ‘There is no possible way for a combustion-based spud gun to just go off,’ Mr. Suprise said.”
A TOY??? How the hell can ANYONE consider that a toy?
But then again thats the type of toys I used to play with when I was a youngin. And dynamite…and homemade explosives…and homemade fireworks…Now that I think of it, its a miracle I’m still alive.