The Spud Threat
Grass Valley, CA
At 11:27 a.m., a woman called from the 10000 block of Conifer Lane to report her neighbors were playing loud music. She sent her son to ask the neighbors to turn the music down, then the neighbors pointed potato guns at the caller and her children. Deputies contacted everyone involved and determined there was no crime.
Found in the Union
July 3rd, 2007 at 8:16 am
Playing loud music at 11:27 in the morning? In Grass Valley? Cali? Come on, people!
I should think that this lady would be grateful for the spud gun especially when it was on the Julienne setting…then all she would have to do would be to fry ‘em up!
July 3rd, 2007 at 8:27 am
What the hell is a potato gun?
July 3rd, 2007 at 10:10 am
A potato gun? I hope they brought their angry eyes!
July 3rd, 2007 at 1:20 pm
I think Spud Guns are made my McDonalds. I’ve been shot by one and ever since I have had an insatiable craving for French fries.
July 3rd, 2007 at 4:15 pm
If it were country moozik I might have been perplexed as well, if it was really loud that is.
But ya, I have heard of a potato gun but not sure what it is.
July 3rd, 2007 at 9:37 pm
I think it’s a home-made, muzzle-loaded cannon (big iron pipe) with a charge of powder, some wadding, and a potato/cannon ball. Oh, and a firecracker fuse in a small, drilled hole where the charge is. Kind of like the punt guns the old-time market gunners used, only they loaded theirs with nails, glass, nuts and bolts, stones, sea shells, eye teeth, ball bearings and the like instead of veggies… they saved the potatoes to serve up with all the ducks and geese they shot.
July 4th, 2007 at 3:40 pm
Spud guns, cool. If I remember correctly they’re a spring action contraption. You push the barrel into the spud to load. Wish I had one now. Cat’s acting up.
July 4th, 2007 at 8:29 pm
hey all. spud guns are made out of pvc piping, (the white household plumbing pipe you might see in the local hardware store). usually they are fired usuing aquanet hairspray, just because of the cheap price. the ignitor is usually a trigger or turn-style bbq ignition switch. they can be dangerous if hit at close range, but i dont have the personal experience of that thankfully. theres lots of diagrams online to make one if you want, be sure to check with local ordinances to make sure its legal.
July 5th, 2007 at 9:03 am
Sounds like you know a lot more than you are letting on Leahmarie. The use of eye teeth might not hurt as much as ball bearings or shards of glass but it sure as hell would weird me out to be hit by them.
July 5th, 2007 at 11:43 am
Well, keeglet, in my part of the forests and streams, girls and boys learn, at an early age, how to construct all sorts of ingenious weaponry, deadly traps, and even injured animal calls in order to keep food on our tables. It wasn’t much of as stretch for me to come up with a probable design for a “spud gun,” and I’m working on one as we speak. I’m intrigued, and it’s been awhile — now that we have a supermarket in our town. It’s like the cutie-pie on TV (probably one of my cousins) says: “Ah don’t know what that is? But ah won’t it.”