Potato guns aren't toys to those they have maimed

The State ^ | Jul. 14, 2003 | PEYTON D. WOODSON

[gc4nra]

The key word here is GUN! Never cover anything with the muzzle that you do not wish to destroy, i.e. your face!

[proudofthesouth]

ROTFLMAO!

[Jeff Gordon]

JackAss

[TXnMA]

Some U.S. cities have banned the devices. They are illegal in Texas...

Wooooooops!

Izzatafact?

[El Gato]

Seems they used to delight in firing cats from their howitzers when saluting during parades, etc. for visiting members of other militaries.

I do believe my dogs would enjoy seeing that. ;)

[buccaneer81]

Berry, who was attending classes at a local business school, had wanted to enlist in the Air Force at age 17, with his parents' permission. But they told him to wait until he was 18. They were afraid of the threat of war.

Heavens! We can't have the Air Force fighting wars! Too dangerous!

The parents are maroons. Kind of explains the Darwinian streak in the kid.

[HairOfTheDog]

Bump to read and ping in the morning!

[xm177e2]

You're right. That guy's a sick (expletive deleted) for doing that to a live frog.

Folks like that often graduate to people when doing to animals just doesn't give that thrill any longer.

I disagree. Sending something airborne might be an example of indifference to suffering, but the serial killers are very much aware of how their animal victims suffer, and they very much enjoy it.

[lowbridge]

In this case, the projectile was a live frog.

Hello, my honey. Hello my baby. Hello my ragtime gaaaaaaaal.....

[lowbridge]

Simply drop a tennis ball down the tube, squirt cigarette-lighter fluid in the bottom can's opening on the side, and light it. WHOOOPPPFF! The tennis ball would FLY out of the top and shoot 150 feet in the air, easy.

Boy, the fun Bill Gates missed out on.

;-)

[lowbridge]

>>>Denton, Texas

DUDE!!! I moved from there a year ago!! AHHH!!!

Who did you like better? Brad or Janet?

[Aracelis]

Although the fuse was lit, the gun didn't fire, and Berry looked down the barrel to see what was wrong. Suddenly, the gun went off.

This is worth a big, fat DUH!

[kancel]

>>Naturally, I simultaneously informed them to stay away from the burners, knowing that kids will be kids.<<

This last weekend hubby took the boys on their first camping trip. Obviously there was lots of new and exciting things to see and do on a very first trip but it was the 4 year old who especially likes fire. No matter how many times hubby told him to be careful around the fire he wouldn't be. He was dancing in his chair when it fell over and his cheek landed on the iron ring that denotes the legal fire pit area. The next morning there he was again, dancing around the fire like he'd gone native. He obviously hasn't learned his lesson even though he is going to have quite the reminder on his face for awhile (we are hoping 2nd degree burns dont scar at least not permanaently.) We are SOOO lucky that our pediatrician comes from a family of four boys- he has that understanding of what exactly it is boys can do to each other or, as in this instance, just themselves.

If our family were a senior high class the 4 year old would be voted "Most likely to kill self accidentally." If I believed in mind altering drugs for children he'd be on Ritalin so derned fast...