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Car Trebuchet Video

You thought the whole trebuchet thing was over? Nope! Here's a video from british tv of a car flinging trebuchet. Of course before you fling a car, it appears to be standard procedure to shoot it with a gun! I'm guessing that they took the engine out first to lighten it up. - Link

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Posted by: ceBlaze on February 6, 2007 at 10:36 AM

It's nice to see they don't let a little thing like fire safety get in the way of a good time.

I think the gun was mostly to make holes in the windshield and floor to run the cable through.

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Posted by: Shadyman on February 6, 2007 at 10:49 AM

This was on Discovery Channel's Daily Planet at one point.

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Posted by: anKo on February 6, 2007 at 11:06 AM

who knew a shotgun was a modification tool? ...except for "crazy" william burroughs shooting paintings of course

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Posted by: MikeCat on February 6, 2007 at 11:30 AM

He modified his wife too, I think.

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Posted by: tms10000 on February 6, 2007 at 1:26 PM

Pre-recorded laugh tracks make it really funny too :)

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Posted by: makeisnumberone on February 6, 2007 at 6:52 PM

They build it wrong. It needs either a swinging weight or to be on wheels to prevent excessive force on the axle.

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Posted by: jswilson64 on February 6, 2007 at 6:54 PM

These guys were featured in Car & Driver years ago. There was one great pic from the article, of the perfectly-shaped impression of a pig in the soil. Apparently, cars aren't the only things these guys fling...

As for the video, they need to work on their sling length and/or release angle- that car could've gone a lot farther.

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Posted by: durin on February 7, 2007 at 9:08 AM

Seems like a good time to remind everyone that it's not the thing you fling, it's the fling itself:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=i3xP7cbawlI

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