Holy Hannah! It's a Halloween Howitzer!

[dalek sec]

Now that is just plain awesome.

 

[Berethond]

There's a whole competition base on this concept every year.
It is indescribably awesome.

 

[Poopie McGhee]

Wow, just wow... if i had this, i'd build a shed and plug a pumpkin through it...

 

[Tony Harrison]

Wait, Bowling balls?

I can't say it doesn't look great, but I'm glad they're nowhere near me.

 

[ACM_Shadow]

As dangerous, and irresponsible as it is, you have to sit back and laugh, feel sorry for anyone nearby when they launch bowling bowls. This is just LEGENDARY.
PS: new form of artillery, cluster pumpkins.
And odubya23, 600 Mph is probably the exit velocity of the pumpkin, meaning the air resistance would slow it down extremely fast as soon as it exits the barrel, and if you actually looked at the opening statement, once the pumpkin fragementedand it rained pumpkin shrapnel down on some farm workers.

 

[Christemo]

i want to shoot my prick brother out of that thing... into a brick wall.

 

[WhiteTigerShiro]

How does this benefit mankind in any way? It's a massive waste of time, money, and resources.

By that logic, your very hobby (assumed by the fact that you have an account here) is a massive waste of time, money, and resources.

 

[Sir Ollie]

Oh bloody hell.....I need that cannon for errmm tests.

 

[kotorfan04]

This is pure win, even if it kills people, I don't think it would be a problem. Hell that would be a pretty cool way to go for me... Just imagine it you are walking along see an orange dot in the air, look at it then... BAM! Suddenly bisected and as you die you have just enough time to say: What the fuck? Was that a pumpkin? Then you have an awesome story to tell in the afterlife.

 

[Jaqen Hghar]

How does this benefit mankind in any way? It's a massive waste of time, money, and resources.

So you are one of those people...

OT: I just love how that guy has a real crazy laugh while doing this. You can tell he is having the time of his life. Good for him. But I too wonder where the heck those things land. Would be nice to see a video of that

 

[Arcanz]

How does this benefit mankind in any way? It's a massive waste of time, money, and resources.

Waste of time, money and resources.. well, I'm pretty sure it's THEIR time, THEIR money, and THEIR resources so why do you care? Apparently this is a hobby just like any other hobby out there, and awesome and incredible hobby, but a hobby nonetheless ^^

This is like plants vs zombies in real life. Come Halloween there's going to be prepared to defend their lawns, the zombies have no chance.

I was thinking the very same thing, aim it at a 10 degree angle or so. I wonder how that thing would affect something human-like with such a force.

 

[paragon1]

How is this legal? I'm pretty sure a weapon that size doesn't count as an arm which you can bear.

Well, you have to ask what qualifies something as a weapon. Since it doesn't use gunpowder, I'm pretty sure no one is going to see it as an issue (hell, the thing doesn't even make much noise).

 

[Amnestic]

How is this legal? I'm pretty sure a weapon that size doesn't count as an arm which you can bear.

Well, you have to ask what qualifies something as a weapon. Since it doesn't use gunpowder, I'm pretty sure no one is going to see it as an issue (hell, the thing doesn't even make much noise).

If you hit someone with the pumpkin, I daresay the victim of the pumpkin may consider it a weapon. Maybe it's because I'm not an American and I don't crack one off to pictures of the latest assault rifle to hit the market but this seems pretty freaking dangerous to me.

 

[NikolaiTampernun]

Someone needs to stuff a midget into that thing....

 

[paragon1]

How is this legal? I'm pretty sure a weapon that size doesn't count as an arm which you can bear.

Well, you have to ask what qualifies something as a weapon. Since it doesn't use gunpowder, I'm pretty sure no one is going to see it as an issue (hell, the thing doesn't even make much noise).

If you hit someone with the pumpkin, I daresay the victim of the pumpkin may consider it a weapon. Maybe it's because I'm not an American and I don't crack one off to pictures of the latest assault rifle to hit the market but this seems pretty freaking dangerous to me.

Oh, well isn't this new and different. An asshat who likes to make blanket assumptions about people from another country. Had it occurred to you that someone whose capable of building something like that might be smart enough to not point it at people?

 

[Amnestic]

How is this legal? I'm pretty sure a weapon that size doesn't count as an arm which you can bear.

Well, you have to ask what qualifies something as a weapon. Since it doesn't use gunpowder, I'm pretty sure no one is going to see it as an issue (hell, the thing doesn't even make much noise).

If you hit someone with the pumpkin, I daresay the victim of the pumpkin may consider it a weapon. Maybe it's because I'm not an American and I don't crack one off to pictures of the latest assault rifle to hit the market but this seems pretty freaking dangerous to me.

Oh, well isn't this new and different. An asshat who likes to make blanket assumptions about people from another country. Had it occurred to you that someone whose capable of building something like that might be smart enough to not point it at people?

Did you watch the bloody video? He shot it vaguely into the air! They fired a bowling ball which "just kept going and going." implying they have no bloody idea how far this thing can fire. How're you meant to clear people out of the way if you don't know the capabilities of your own machine?

And yes, I did make a blanket statement. It's called stereotyping. From all the people going "FUCKING AWESOME!" in this thread I don't think I'm far-bloody-off either. You want me to feel bad about stereotyping? Stop self-fulfilling them.

 

[IamQ]

Let me get this straight... 2 guys, with absolutely no qualifications, permits or even professional advisory whatsoever, took it upon themselves to manufacture a fully functional piece of conventional artillery, a cannon, capable of propelling large items, used as ammunition, at 600 miles per hour, and then, as if that wasn't enough, proceeded to indulge themselves, having absolutely no artillery training whatsoever, by firing said cannon into the air with reckless disregard to it's trajectory (which would be pointless either ways because the barrel shakes so much it could aim anywhere from the yard next door to Nebraska) and without even studying where said heavy projectiles might land at 600 miles per hour? And then they posted it on youtube?

...And they're not sitting in jail right now?

...Only in America...

Stop breaking the mood, this is awesome.