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SoxFan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-24-07 11:07 AM
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Wiley Coyote lives in NH!
GREENFIELD – It was a rough ending to the first weekend of the annual pumpkin flinging season by the Yankee Siege when one of the medieval weapon's main operators was injured in an accident.

Chuck Willard of Hancock, who climbs the 55-foot high boom on the trebuchet dozens of times a day during the fall-flinging season, was knocked unconscious about 2:30 p.m. yesterday when the boom from the trebuchet, a catapult-like device that uses counterweight to hurl pumpkins nearly 300 yards, struck him in the chin.

http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Operator+of+pumpkin+tosser+injured+in+freak+accident&articleId=f6219eae-eebf-496a-9cb3-db1f3b78306d
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skygazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-24-07 11:09 AM
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1. You'll pardon me I hope when I say
Only in New Hampsire. :rofl:
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SoxFan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-24-07 11:21 AM
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3. From the state that brought you the Roadkill Auction
:crazy:
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-24-07 11:11 AM
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2. I want a trebuchet
Really, I totally do. I wish I had the room and the construction skills to build one.
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seemunkee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-24-07 12:34 PM
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4. Thats nothing
At the Delaware Pumpkin Chunkin they are looking to break the mile mark this year.
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SoxFan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-24-07 12:37 PM
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5. A mile? In Delaware?
Has this been cleared with New Jersey and Maryland yet?
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