Homemade Cannon Kills Man

On Thu, 03 Jun 2004 06:47:17 GMT, Don Corleone vaguely proposed a theory ......and in reply I say!: remove ns from my header address to reply via email

the poor man showed too much faith in his adventuristic spirit

i bow my head in a minute's silence for him

and not even a _projectile_

bugger!

however i will say that most successful powerful live men of the front line stood well back first time

Sometimes in a workplace you find snot on the wall of the toilet cubicles. You feel "What sort of twisted child would do this?"....the internet seems full of them. It's very sad

Hey, hold my beer and watch THIS!

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A bunch of teenage boys in my neck of the woods were messing around with a potato "gun", and tried to use a frog as a projectile. When the gun misfired, one of the guys looked down the barrel and got a face full of frog. It broke a bunch of bones in his face and blinded him for life. Makes you wonder how any of us made it out of adolescence. JD

A FROG???? Yeesh! That had to be a mess just trying to run it down the barrel, let alone actually firing the thing!

Think of the Nurse and Doctor - I don't even want to!

Martin

We went as far as making 10 pounds of dynamite from scratch. The only one of us that lost any parts lost them working on his PH.D. in his lab not in extra circular activates in high school. By the time I was 12 I could buy shells and fire works and the makings for black power from the drug store with out sneaking around.

We were very careful about how we did it.

Gordon

Further proof that Darwin was right. Hopefully he did not breed prior to this stunt.

Revenge of the Amphibians....

Jim

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Gordon sez:

" . . . We went as far as making 10 pounds of dynamite from scratch. . . ."

At least one inquiring mind would like to know. Just how far back into the manufacturing of dynamite did you go without losing any parts. Can you elaborate a bit on "scratch" ?

Bob Swinney

By the time I was 12 I could buy

Man isn't that true. As a teenager one of my friends found a mortar cannon assembly in a basement of old abandon house, he took it to a nearby river bank and tinkered with it. Not knowing what it really was other then it probably could be some fun, it looked sort of like a telescope. So he points the cannon almost straight up against a rock ( the cannon assembly tripod was broke). He then slid the matching mortor shell into the cannon just for the heck of it. Nothing really happen, just a very quiet muted pop. What was that? No one knew. A few seconds later, as he was looking into the cannon to see what happen, on a small island in the middle of the river a huge explosion could be seen with a couple small trees falling down, scared sh$tless, he threw the everything into the river and ran away.

Sadly, given his age, he probably did, but hopefully not!

Harry C.

Making the nitro glycerin in 55 gallon drum of ice water buried in berms of earth. Mixed by remote control in small batches and watched with binoculars via a over head mirror.

Gordon

While I applaud the concept of the Darwin Awards, and agree that some of the winners are morons whose removal from the gene pool benefits us all, some of them I do regret losing. Much more interesting, I think, than the types who spend their spare time on video games.

How many of us have done things that - except for good luck or some god watching over us - might have made us award recipients? Think I'd have to raise my hand on that one.

Not meant at all as a criticism of the Darwin Awards - just as an observation that some of the "winners" might have been our losses.

homemade cannon guy - a loss

potato cannon frog target - no loss

John Martin

You have a point. Not long ago in town the whole family died from a generator in the garage with the door closed. The power company cut them off a day or so before , kinda sounded like the guy needed help to move the generator and couldn't find any and really screwed up. What is that? Retrospect Darwin Award.