"Surprise your friends with a blast of air out of nowhere"
was the headline in one of those gadget magazines that caught my eye, it was an an airzooka www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH3lqTNHtZM

Now this was pre broadband days and the picture in the magazine was'nt that big so that's about as much info i could get. It was a 'bargain' price of £25 so bit the bullet and ordered one. 2 days i spent daydreaming of running around shopping centres with this in my hand shooting people with blasts of air and them looking all confused as to how this weather element could appear out of nowhere.

3 days later it arrived, the box was huge and i mean massive, had the company sent me 2 by mistake? my mind went crazy with more visions of me running around the shopping centre but now with a mate causing air havoc! I ripped open the box with haste tearing away all of the plastic packaging that was surrounding it only to discover a giant purple bucket , it was as big as a waste paper bin with a bag inside it attached to a giant rubber band! How i was i going to surprise anyone running around with a bucket in my hand and to make matters worse when you pulled back the bag it made a huge bang that would prob kill you from shock even before the air pocket hit you, that was £25 down the drain...

And to make matters worse in my excitement in getting it out of the box i tore away some of the plastic bag inside the airzooka making the thing utterley useless. Arse.
(djgalaxe, Fri 1 Oct 2010, 10:21, 7 replies)

I've got one of these
and it's actually quite good - you should try to repair it.

It sends a pulse of air which can travel quite a long way and suddenly throw someone's hair around, or knock over small objects, even across a room. I suspect it would blow killer smoke rings, too, but I haven't got around to trying that yet.

Mind you, it was a present; I probably would be annoyed to spend £25 on it...
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Fri 1 Oct 2010, 10:31, closed)

It blows absolutely ACE smoke rings.

(Falstaff's Spiritual Successor, Fri 1 Oct 2010, 10:44, closed)

OK, that's tonight's lolz sorted then
...trouble is, I don't smoke and the missus is trying to give up...
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Fri 1 Oct 2010, 11:48, closed)

Incense sticks work quite nicely

(richardm, Fri 1 Oct 2010, 14:44, closed)

My mate got one of these too.
Both his parents are deaf though, so him and his brother managed to get away with terrorising the 'rents for a while*.

*Maybe about a day, before they 'fessed up!
(Dr_Faustus filius of a femina canis, Fri 1 Oct 2010, 11:48, closed)

That made me smile...
Image in my mind of the two of them trying to 'fess up...

"It was us."

"What?"

"It Was Us."

"What?"

"I SAID. IT! WAS! US!"

"Thank you dear, I'll have two sugars in mine."
(SatchmoR No, mummy, don't put knitting needles in my ears!, Fri 1 Oct 2010, 13:00, closed)

I also have unwisely purchased this item
People do turn round when you fire it at them, only trying to work out what that enormous thud noise was, rather than the micro ball of air that the product promises to deliver

it has gone unsold at 3 car boot sales now
( h3donist tryin' to play me out as if my name is Sega.., Fri 1 Oct 2010, 12:15, closed)

These are actually pretty good
For annoying people in an open-plan environment. Although, as previously suggested, your liklihood of escaping undetected is nil.

Maybe driveby airzooka-ing is the way forward.
( MatJ LOOK, Fri 1 Oct 2010, 12:36, closed)

I have one word to say when connected to the Airzooka™
Cats!
(SatchmoR No, mummy, don't put knitting needles in my ears!, Fri 1 Oct 2010, 16:16, closed)

I have another word
Farts!
(Zedsquared, Mon 4 Oct 2010, 20:24, closed)