A spokesman for the police in Brandenburg said: Woodland on Sundays echoes to the thump-thump of these guns. It is a growing social problem that needs to be tackled.
Could this be the European equivalent of backyard wrestling? (via Slashdot)
I got shot in the thigh with a potato gun once. whole lotta pain.
The Germans have the coolest word for potato in any language, though. "Potato gun" doesn't have the same ring as "kartoffelkanone".
Wow. The Germans are behind. The manufacture of Potato Guns has long been a pastime for bored American teenagers, especially in rural areas, where you can be sure your potato won't crash through a window or dent a car.
When I worked at a hardware store, I had a man come in once with a potato gun, the parts of which had become sealed together by the hairspray. He demanded that I fix his potato gun (people walked into the store quite frequently and demanded that I repair or assemble various items). I put the thing in a vise, grabbed it and pulled with no change. Eventually we had a chain of people pulling...I was pulling the potato gun, while the guy pulled me, and my boss pulled him, but that potato gun was stuck.
I have many other equally dull potato gun anecdotes under my belt, a testament to their banal popularity Stateside.