Labor Day Weekend 2006

After the ball game on Saturday, we snuck up to my parent’s farm for a few hours. While there, we tooled around on four-wheelers to see what they’ve been up to, and also spend a little time with the water balloon bazooka. I wish I’d had the presence of mind to shoot a little video, but it is one helluva cool toy. It’s really not much more than an 8-foot compressed air-powered water balloon mortar.

Operation is pretty simple. Add a quart or two of water to the bazooka shaft, drop up to eight balloons down, add up to 125psi of compressed air to the appropriate chamber, aim at something you wouldn’t mind destroying, and flip the valve. The next thing that happens is a 10-foot waterspout blasts out of the barrel, propelling the balloons on a ballistic arc toward whatever you aimed at.