Darwin AwardsBluffboy says: My mate cheated death and burned his eyebrows off looking down the barrel of a potato gun. Tell us about your brushes with the Grim Reaper through stupidity.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 12 Feb 2009, 20:01)
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Potato Cannon FunEvery year we here across the pond in the colonies celebrate our (erstwhile) freedom with civilian versions of war's horrors: fireworks.
A friend built a potato cannon, and I had "a great idea"! I inserted a dangerously large firecracker into a hollow carved out of a potato, and loaded the makeshift bomb into the cannon.
The idea was that the blast from launching the potato would light the fuse of the firecracker, and the potato would explode in the air.
It worked, too. Except that the explosion that launched the potato lit the ENTIRE fuse. The potato blew up about 6 inches past the muzzle of the cannon. Fortunately, the end result was being cov ered with raw hash browns, not being blown to bits.
Great fun, but we haven't repeated the experiment.
(, Wed 18 Feb 2009, 7:57, Reply)
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