“The first weekend of pumpkin flinging season ended abruptly Sunday... Chuck Willard of Hancock hit on the chin… medieval weapon called a trebuchet… it can toss pumpkins 300 yards... He was treated and released and said to be anxious to start tossing pumpkins again.”When a man fires a pumpkin 300 yards, he becomes as a wrathful god, raining death and plagues from the sky. He can smiteth the heathen on the other side of a car park, like a thunderbolt of Zeus. Can such destructive power be harnessed for good, or will it fall into the wrong hands, is the question we now must ask.
Monday, October 1, 2007
TOSSER STRUCK ON CHIN BY VEGETABLE SIEGE WEAPON
Like most Britons, I am in the habit of looking up at the sky when I leave the house to see if I am about to be killed by a pumpkin. So this story made my blood run cold:
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