Idaho Pianist Loses Hand In Potato Gun Explosion

[Zappa]

http://www.journalnet.com/news/local/article_2a5a8f0e-21d0-11e0-b2b5-001cc4c002e0.html

Excerpt:

POCATELLO — Paul Dial attributes his training as an Eagle Scout in his youth for the calm and cool approach he exhibited following the potato gun explosion that severely injured his neighbor

I didn't know Glock made Potato Guns?

 

[twogunwilly]

Schaible had filled the gun with black powder and lit it, triggering the explosion, police said.

black powder in a potato gun, holy crap he's lucky to be alive, dumbass

 

[Zappa]

Schaible had filled the gun with black powder and lit it, triggering the explosion, police said.

black powder in a potato gun, holy crap he's lucky to be alive, dumbass

Dumbass is putting it mildly.
He's lucky he's not in contention for a Darwin Award after this phenomenal act of boneheadedness.

 

[Realtor MA]

No doubt this particular potato gun was a 'forty'

 

[Fixxah]

Gives new meaning to soloist.

 

[CRSIII]

Lets give him a hand!

 

[theGringo]

Idaho. How tragically ironic. I suspect it was an ammo problem. Probably loaded up a russet.

 

[CRSIII]

Idaho. How tragically ironic. I suspect it was an ammo problem. Probably loaded up a russet.

Never would have happened with a Maine 'tater!

 

[hqp921]

Gives new meaning to soloist.

Lets give him a hand!

Idaho. How tragically ironic.

I like this board already...

I've never found Aqua Net to be inadequate in potato launching...

Funny comments from that day/night (shooting potatoes from a friend's lakehouse into the lake):

- "Holy **** what do you use?" "Hairspray."
- "What kind of fireworks were you guys shooting last night?" "Potatoes."

What would possess you to put black powder into a potato cannon?! I won't use anything other than hairspray in mine (I've been asked to use gas, starter fluid, etc.).

Yikes.

- HP

 

[X JBM X]

Aquanet is the way to go. Black powder is just asking for trouble.

 

[CRSIII]

How did we launch tubers before hairspray?

 

[Skysoldier]

I used small squirts of lighter fluid...never used hairspray. (This was before the Bic generation!)

 

[theGringo]

How did we launch tubers before hairspray?

It was a complicated affair.

 

[hqp921]

It was a complicated affair.

Those are for pumpkins, not taters!

- HP

 

[CRSIII]

Kinda like Mark Anthony and Cleopatra?

 

[copterdoctor]

Aquanet is the way to go. Black powder is just asking for trouble.

Yup. I get a MV of about 300 fps with aquanet.

 

[Standby]

This is why laws are made, their to protect the stupid.

Keep it up and you won't be able to buy potatoes anymore.

 

[CRSIII]

Yup. I get a MV of about 300 fps with aquanet.

Ah, the 80s.

 

[ARV]

No doubt this particular potato gun was a 'forty'

Nothing good comes of schedule 40.

 

[Zappa]

This is why laws are made, their to protect the stupid.

Keep it up and you won't be able to buy potatoes anymore.

Really.
They'll have a five day waiting period to buy potatoes and hairspray, and you can't have a sack that holds more than 10 potatoes.

[sad2]

 

[theGringo]

I bought taters for 40 cents a pound on Friday. Then I went back for a sale: 10 pounds at 30 cents a pound. Will they report me for multiple purchases? Will the papers call it a cache, or an arsenal?

 

[HKdrummer]

I used propane, works pretty damn good.

 

[ferretfour]

Really.
They'll have a five day waiting period to buy potatoes and hairspray, and you can't have a sack that holds more than 10 potatoes.

[sad2]

Is there a limit to the number of homefries you can load during Duck hunting season? Can we alternate "shreds" with homefries?

 

[richc]

Well, there are other ways to play the piano!

 

[timbo]

my younger brother was using acetylene in his cannon until it exploded. a piece of the PVC laid his neck open from his adams apple to within 1mm of his jugular vein...he was a lucky bastard...he has the scar to prove it.

 

[red87930]

Black powder + Potato Gun = Pipe Bomb

 

[richc]

my younger brother was using acetylene in his cannon until it exploded. a piece of the PVC laid his neck open from his adams apple to within 1mm of his jugular vein...he was a lucky bastard...he has the scar to prove it.

Jesus... glad he live to talk about it!

That must have been one ugly gash...

 

[timbo]

yeah...i guess it was pretty freaky. He knows he's really lucky to be alive. He still uses potato cannons but without the Acetylene...just hairspray now.

 

[davemata]

I thought something smelled funny when I saw Idaho and pianist in the same subject line.

Everyone knows you stick m80s in potatoes and throw them at cars.

 

[kevin9]

How did we launch tubers before hairspray?

Calcium Carbide, back when it could be easily shipped. A 1/2 cup of water over 2-3 rocks gave enough acetylene for several shots.