{"id":15231,"date":"2003-01-30T12:12:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-30T12:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/01\/30\/mmmpotato-bazookas\/"},"modified":"2003-01-30T12:12:00","modified_gmt":"2003-01-30T12:12:00","slug":"mmmpotato-bazookas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/01\/30\/mmmpotato-bazookas\/","title":{"rendered":"Mmm&#8230;Potato Bazookas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <i>Times Online<\/i> reports that &ldquo;German youths have taken up a dangerous new pastime: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,3-558570,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">firing potatoes as fast as a rocket from &lsquo;bazookas&rsquo; made from drainage pipes<\/a>.&rdquo;  The <i>Kartoffelkanone<\/i> are in some cases powered by the ignition of hair spray, and &ldquo;at a range of 200 metres they could split a man\u2019s head at 15 metres and penetrate a wooden wall at 90 metres.&rdquo;  And here I thought only American Rednecks armed with pumpkin launchers delved into the ballistics of produce&hellip;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-90253624?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Times Online reports that &ldquo;German youths have taken up a dangerous new pastime: firing potatoes as fast as a rocket from &lsquo;bazookas&rsquo; made from drainage pipes.&rdquo; The Kartoffelkanone are in some cases powered by the ignition of hair spray, and &ldquo;at a range of 200 metres they could split a man\u2019s head at 15 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/01\/30\/mmmpotato-bazookas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mmm&#8230;Potato Bazookas&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-15231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}