Most farmers will just grab a shotgun or phone the police when confronted with trespassers. Not Chinese farmer Yang Youde, who fires petrol bombs from his homemade cannon – one time, he held off 100 people.
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When people make wishes, many ask for world peace. I, on the other hand, would wish for something far more realistic – that all conflicts be resolved with tiny cannons, like this one. Wars would be so adorable!
Ping pong balls are relatively harmless, most of the time. Even if someone slams one at you with a paddle, it never hurts all that much. This pneumatic cannon changes that. [TinyEnormous via Make]
Yeah, you can ogle a vortex cannon on the screen, or you can gather up $US200 of supplies and make your own shoulder-fired, dry-ice-launching BFG. That’s short for Big F–king Gun.
This is what happens when you build an extremely powerful vortex cannon, loaded with “one of the most dangerous gas mixes in the world,” to fire it against houses made of straw, sticks, and bricks, like the big bad wolf.
