Every Teacher’s Worst Nightmare: The Deadly Pencil Launcher Is Real


Slingshot guru Joerg Sprave seems set on making the innocent-yet-violent daydreams of our youth into wait-this-can-actually-kill-people reality. Last week it was a famous anime slingshot-spear. This week it’s the platonic ideal of the haphazard pencil-flingers every fifth grade boy has stashed under his desk.

The pump-action “Nerd Revenge 2000” holds 10 pencils and launches them at almost 160km/h. Which, uh, what? As usual, it’s genius and juvenile and dangerous and incredibly wonderful and please don’t make this and kill someone and sue Joerg.