Sept 6, 2009: Trebuchet
 

Not the huge medieval machine that throws boulders and cows at the castle.
One of them would cost a fortune, take forever to build, and would attract the cops/Homeland Security to your door before you had it half built.

No, here we have a trebuchet that you can build for free and it's easy to hide.
As a matter of fact, you might be able to get paid to build it.;)

http://cellar.org/2009/officetrebuchet.jpg

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My EYE!!! MY EYE!!!

What, no video?

We're waiting for you to build it, and youtube the demo. :haha:

I've seen one of those on the 'Little People' show.

That's kinda cool someone made it from pencils.

but . . . honey roasted peanuts as ammo? there's just something wrong with that

I cannot help but notice that there are no social events marked on his calendar. And he fires peanuts at co-workers with his homemade catapult.

Think those 2 sentences are related?

No it couldn't possibility be

it will have a greater range if he fashions some sort of wheels. Maybe the bottoms from coffee cups, or CD-Rs that didn't burn properly. They need to rock back and forth as the sling lets go for maximum distance.

Oh, I wish we had pencils at work.

Well, we do, but we only give the crazy people minigolf pencils.

Really.

Like they can't stab my eye out with a three inch pencil.

I wonder if it can breech the office partitions?

Well, with the right payload...

I was thinking more along the lines of the ones I have seen on TV where they built full scale models. You would have to put it on a platform to breech the partition and hit the guy a few booths over. Sounds like fun. Launch a few peanuts and start a war in the office. It would at least provided job security for the janitor.

The projectiles should be on fire for maximum effect.

Spitballs, I say. Spitballs. That way you could more accurately judge the accuracy of the weapon.