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Water Balloon Slingshot Brings the Wet into Hot American Summers
Posted by Gizmodo US Edition at 4:30 AM on July 6, 2008
Now that we're headed deep into the middle of summer, it's time to bring out water balloons and figure out ingenious ways to fling them at your enemies. Here's a great tutorial at Instructables for making a wicked water balloon catapult using surgical tubing, a rag and other random doohickies from around the house. According to the dude responsible for this weapon of watery destruction, this shooter will never explode the water balloon prematurely, unlike some of the types you get in stores. [Instructables]
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Rick36
Posted 4:48 AM 6/7/08
Just what is needed for the next Big Game (Cal vs. Stanford) or for UMich vs. OSU for launching liquid surprises from one side to the other.
They were doing this 30 years ago so it isn't really something new.
Rick36
kumuasata
Posted 4:43 AM 6/7/08
Can that support me, I wouldn't mind being flung. Like a mancannon :D
kumuasata
Molbork
Posted 6:01 AM 6/7/08
Yes please to more Wet Hot American Summer references.
From past experience this slingshot was very effective.
Molbork
se7a7n7
Posted 6:41 AM 6/7/08
Gotta love "Wet Hot American Summer"!!!
+ Watch video
se7a7n7
Eric1285
Posted 6:40 AM 6/7/08
Had one of these in high school. We'd sit on the third floor of the dorms and launch them at kids coming back from lunch. Good times.
Eric1285
Barry99705
Posted 6:34 AM 6/7/08
We built one from some surgical tubing we "appropriated" from my high school chemistry lab. Found out that at -20F frozen water balloons will go through a half inch plywood baseball backstop.
Barry99705
tehdahl
Posted 7:28 AM 6/7/08
can't get any hotter than a gigantic thong.
tehdahl
discounteggroll
Posted 9:59 AM 6/7/08
Elaine...did you just classify surgical tubing as a random thing in one's house?
"Man...I got these cheeseburgers man"
discounteggroll
Ryan2845
Posted 10:29 AM 6/7/08
Or just buy one at Wal-Mart for $3...
Ryan2845
tehdahl
Posted 11:53 AM 6/7/08
@Ryan2845:
Recipe for a Joke Gone Wrong
1 Thong
1 Cheeseburger
1 Gigantic Slingshot
1 Michael Jackson
Shake until white and crispy, wear thong at will.
tehdahl
Navin R Johnson
Posted 1:32 PM 7/7/08
There was a women in New Hampshire that lost an eye to one of those, no lie.
[www.sunjournal.com]
Just be aware peeps.
Navin R Johnson