I bet...
A friend of mine, we shall call him Mike, had just acquired a sling shot, one of those super-powered ones with a wrist brace and lots of safety warnings mmmmmmm

Mike also has a dart board in his room... see where this is going yet? We'd already lost the darts somehow, so the bet was on. Bet you cant make this pen-knife stick in the dart board... Dont think any money was placed down, just a friendly wager to pass the time

First attempt and with pre-pubescent eyes closed Mike let fly. With a resounding "Twang!" the pen knife ricochetted(?) off the wire divider and hurtled back at us at 100mph, smashing into the wall behind. We looked at each other, as the squelchy butt mud trickled down our quivering legs, and decided that this was entirely too dangerous...

So we errected a barrier, between us and the dartboard, out of whatever we could find. Chairs mostly as i remember with some carboard boxes and the like. Then we merrily took it in turns, take aim aaaaaand... duck! As the pen knife invariably smashed into the wall surrounding the dartboard,leaving what property developers call a 'stressed' look around most of his room.

This continued for the best part of a day until it finally happened... Mike pulled back with all his might and let fly... but no thud of knife on wall? What could have happened?

I peeked over the top of our make-shift barracade and saw the pen-knife magnificently, proudly protruding from the darboard (20 as well not bad!) and turned to hi-five Mike on a sound victory... But he was saying something along the lines of:

"Mother-cunting-bollox-shit-flapping-bastarding-knife!"

Turns out that en-route to it final resting place the projectile had gorged quite a large hole in Mikes wrist, just behind the thumb. Was hard to keep a strait face when explaining what had happened to the people in the minor injuries clinic...


Even harder when I came back in the next week with an identical wound. Got to know the staff there by name that summer, good times.
(Is this a good idea? ... Yes this is definitely a good idea, Thu 7 May 2009, 15:50, 5 replies)

Giggles at butt mud.

( fuck shit up the best you never had, Thu 7 May 2009, 15:58, closed)

Those slingshots
Are lethal. If you use pebbles as ammo, they will comfortably chip stone. Some paintball places have banned them because they fire faster than the paint guns.
( MatJ LOOK, Thu 7 May 2009, 16:34, closed)

They'll do a lot worse
To greenhouses, conservatories and birds ive found out...
(Is this a good idea? ... Yes this is definitely a good idea, Thu 7 May 2009, 16:37, closed)

Good
work, Sir!
( SpankyHanky, Thu 7 May 2009, 17:01, closed)

Darwin
I see a golden statuette of Charles Darwin in someone's future. *click*
(lanternchikk hat eine schwere Bohlenallergie, Sun 10 May 2009, 18:55, closed)