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Grit Brit to Mob Yobs: Git off Me Lawn!
While using a retired trebuchet to fling chicken poo at thieves is all well and good, I can't help but think there'd be an aiming problem. They were originally meant to knock down walls, which don't move around near as much as your average punk. The cannon sounds more promising, if only I knew exactly what a "railroad sleeper" was.
The fact that he'll likely get in deep trouble if he ever actually uses his defenses speaks volumes about what eleven years of Labor rule has done to Britain's vaunted self-reliance. There, but for the grace of God and a Democratic party too disorganized to accomplish anything they consider meaningful, go us.
It's the big wooden things under the steel rails on a train track. We'd call them railroad ties - they used to be used a lot in landscaping projects. The article points to rubber tipped ones, but to be honest, that's irrelevent. If you get hit with a full-sized one launched via a trebuchet, you're pretty much plastered.
Posted by: Ron on March 7, 2008 08:57 AMWell I guess we're not so far removed from our Primate forebears after all...monkeys and chimps fling their shit at each other (and their owners, if one if foolish enough to own one), so I guess it's not too big a stretch for Homo sapiens to fling chicken poo at other Homo sapiens...
Posted by: Mark on March 7, 2008 01:45 PM