[Charles Martel]

For a serious boost in stopping power, you might screw a large 1/2" bolt into the spud. It'll go straight through a metal 50 gal. barrel. The spud pretty much vaporizes on impact.

Hot dang, a potato-sabot round with galvanized lagscrew penetrator! Gotta jot that one down in my "devious ideas" notebook, on the same page as the "frozen paintball" suggestion. :-)

[chadwimc]

The first one I build was on the Outer Banks. Rain, rip tides and no fish was a bad combination for three teenagers and their goofy uncle(me). The local Ace hardware had all the parts we needed. I was confronted on the beach one night by a sherrif's deputy who wanted to confiscate it. He ended up calling two supervisors,trying to figure out some kind of violation. They ended up just confiscating my plans...

[zeugma]

Glad you liked it. My evil brother actually came up with that one. I thought it was pretty useful thing to remember for future possible urban combat necessities. I've seen interesting ideas as well utilizing wire to take down non-fixed wing aircraft.