Date:         Thu, 6 Mar 2003 18:55:29 -0600
Reply-To:     Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
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From:         Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject:      Punkin' Chunkin' Westy
Comments: To: belanger@FLUID.COM
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I've seen a whole hour of the Pumpkin Chunking contest on a cable
channel.
Some of those guys use a 20" pipe, force a pumpkin down the barrel and
ignite butane to fire the pumpkin.
There is a VW web site that has some pictures of a VW Bus that was the
target. It never got hit but it got splattered good.
They had some catapults like used on Northern Exposure to sling that
Piano and they bring them on 50 foot flatbed trailers.
Really quite extensive hobby for that one time a year event.
I think they tie the Pumpkin Chunkin around a Tractor Pull or other big
spec-tater event.
Oops is it Potato or Potatoe?

Stan

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 Westies are currently being stockpiled by survivalist to burry as
> bomb  shelters.
> > Those not used for shelters are slated for targets in the after
> > Thanksgiving pumpkin throwing contest.
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> Unfortunately, the best I could find was this:
>
>   http://www.atbeach.com/punkinchunkin/video.html
>
> Now if you combine that concept with a Punkin' Chunkin' Westy on
> Monster
> Garage, you'd have me glued to the set.  Not that I'm not already
> glued
> to it.  Damn you TiVo!  Damn you straight to hell!!!
>
>
> -MB
> --
> _______________________________________________________________________
> Mark Belanger - belanger@fluid.com
>
>

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