Topic: - on February 2, 2003 at 2:10:24 PM CET
Safety chiefs target German craze for 'bazooka' spud guns
GERMAN youths have taken up a dangerous new pastime: firing potatoes as fast as a rocket from “bazookas” made from drainage pipes.
One man almost lost an eye, a woman had her leg broken and one teenager was badly burnt when the hairspray used as the propellant exploded in his face as he prepared to fire.
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