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Poll: Squirrel Catapulting
Outrageous?	2 / 10%
Outrageously funny?	2 / 10%
What's the best elastic cord to use?	16 / 80%
20 total votes

thorne
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What do you think?

http://www.unc.edu/~silcox/Squirrel.wmv

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thomasribiere

Apr 2, 2007, 6:52 PM
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It could be funny if it was a little bit less violent. The catapult seems very stretched.

devils_advocate

Apr 2, 2007, 6:55 PM
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Agreed. Maybe if it was into a pond or something besides a tangle of tree limbs. Still... I laughed.

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Apr 2, 2007, 7:08 PM
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devils_advocate wrote:

Agreed. Maybe if it was into a pond or something besides a tangle of tree limbs. Still... I laughed.

I wonder what it would take to make this work with larger animals... racoons, opossums, a fawn or a small deer, the neighborhood kids... that would be awesome. A bowl of halloween candy in a catapult...

throw eggs at my house, will ya... that'll teach those little punks.

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Apr 2, 2007, 8:13 PM
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jgloporto wrote:

devils_advocate wrote:

Agreed. Maybe if it was into a pond or something besides a tangle of tree limbs. Still... I laughed.

I wonder what it would take to make this work with larger animals... racoons, opossums, a fawn or a small deer, the neighborhood kids... that would be awesome. A bowl of halloween candy in a catapult...

throw eggs at my house, will ya... that'll teach those little punks.

I was thinking even bigger: put a brick of chalk in it and wait for a boulderer to come by trying to steal it.

ihategrigris

Apr 2, 2007, 8:40 PM
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devils_advocate wrote:

Agreed. Maybe if it was into a pond or something besides a tangle of tree limbs. Still... I laughed.

Only if you tied tiny little cinder blocks to the squirrel's paws.

carabiner96

Apr 2, 2007, 10:15 PM
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ihategrigris wrote:

devils_advocate wrote:

Agreed. Maybe if it was into a pond or something besides a tangle of tree limbs. Still... I laughed.

Only if you tied tiny little cinder blocks to the squirrel's paws.

I'm not gonna lie. I thought it was hilarious.

-Girl who shot squirrels as a child

j_ung

Apr 2, 2007, 11:13 PM
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Re: [carabiner96] Squirrel Catapulting [In reply to] Report this Post	Can't Post

Vegetarian checking in. Pretty terrible. And yet, terribly funny.

rogue10186

Apr 2, 2007, 11:24 PM
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Really funny, I wonder if I could make this work for some of the random strayish cats that hang around my neighborhood.

traddad

Apr 3, 2007, 1:30 PM
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Re: [thorne] Squirrel Catapulting [In reply to] Report this Post	Can't Post

So….I say we bait the trap with a billion dollar defense contract and a bottle of “Ol’ Gutshot ‘98”.

And the thing with the pond and the cinderblocks would be good too....

dynoingfool

Apr 3, 2007, 4:53 PM
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what would be really fun would be a small-woodland-creature ballista. just strap em to a humungous arrow and launch the bastard! actually then you could kill two squirrels with one bolt. not bad.

wideguy

Apr 3, 2007, 9:39 PM
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Don't worry about the squirrel. that far is nothing. I routinely see them miss the jump for my roof and fall three stories, see them fight and knock each other off a branch 30'+ up, ever had to clean a dead one from my yard. They're made of rubber those damn things, with teeth of steel and appetites of horses. Mad

Mad

Mad

Mad

uhoh

Apr 3, 2007, 9:42 PM
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Re: [thorne] Squirrel Catapulting [In reply to] Report this Post	Can't Post

That's the most hilarious 403 error I've ever seen.

rendog

Apr 4, 2007, 3:23 AM
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Re: [uhoh] Squirrel Catapulting [In reply to] Report this Post	Can't Post

got the 403 error too, but hit squirrel catapult on google

I'm still giggling

pro_alien

Apr 4, 2007, 10:02 AM
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"Squirrels are just rats with a bushy tail and better PR"

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