Homemade artillery gun confiscated from a Khabarovsk car mechanic

Sorry, I meant, thin

"Ignoramus17662" wrote in message news:YaCdnQ-lWcintNvQnZ2dnUVZ snipped-for-privacy@giganews.com...

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The thought of being in the vicinity of an iced can of beer shot 200 meters from that might be a good incentive to give up drinking.

It was last week IIRC ,that American border people caught some smugglers on the Mexican line with a catapult for marijuana.

Regards,

Edward Hennessey

I wonder if catapulting marijuana qualifies as armed hostilities.

i

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I'm thinking, at least in California, it might be termed foreign aid-- or relief supplies for all those holders of medical marijuana cards.

But, kick me, that bore size can't have anything to do with the diameter of a Russian pivo can? Maybe the FSB got involved because the sabotnik was planning to sidetrack troops with a beer can barrage?

Regards,

Edward Hennessey

Even worse, the FDA wants to regulate it as a drug delivery system...

Or perhaps ICE could take the idea and use it to deport illegal alien drug dealers. Adios amigo...

No - more like "friendly fire"... :)

I think it's just a drug lobby. Mikek

The left-hand topics column is almost all English words. Is that a recent trend?

jsw

They could probably use that for arrest purposes (He used a catapult at us! or armed drug-running) but not for diplomatic purposes (We hope, anyway!) I really wish for more utility out of our border patrol and police units, though.

-- An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. -- Sir Winston Churchill

Classic splinter shield. Got to love 'em.

I think tat he wanted it to look like this:

Damn, Ig, just how big ARE Russian beer cans?

Steve

I believe that was a trebuchet. Big difference. I've seen videos of trebuchets throwing a car a frightening distance.

Steve

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it was a catapult.

Not completely recent, maybe 10 year old.

i

A pneumatic cannon would be better for delivering packages with marijuana.

Takes less room, quieter, etc.

The container may be made from pipe.

i

Looks big enough for Foster's cans. Could be second-cousin to a spud gun, using air-fuel, can't really tell with that pic. For those that can puzzle out the translation,

will give you a rough idea, stuff in the original URL. I've seen(and made) beer can mortars, nothing like that, though. The contents are drained and replaced with concrete, not made into ice.

Stan

Not quieter than a trebuchet!

Cheers! Rich

Catapults only make noise when the arm hits the bumper. In jr high school I made low-profile pocket-sized ones with string for the stops for my friends (the presumedly respectable class officers) so we could secretly instigate food fights between other tables at lunch without raising our arms. No one ever caught on, though from the stairs you could see a ring of thicker 'texture' (whipped cream) on the ceiling tiles around our central table.

jsw