{"id":522,"date":"2003-01-29T16:15:28","date_gmt":"2003-01-29T20:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=522"},"modified":"2003-01-29T16:15:28","modified_gmt":"2003-01-29T20:15:28","slug":"potato-wars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=522","title":{"rendered":"Potato Wars!"},"content":{"rendered":"I know it’s serious, and very painful, but you can’t help laughing when you read<\/a> that
“In Bavaria, a 55-year-old woman suffered severe injuries when a potato smashed into her thigh as she walked near woodland with her dog”<\/blockquote>\nIt turns out that German Youth have been struck by a craze for “Kartoffelkanone”<\/em>. “A spokesman for the police in Brandenburg said ‘Woodland on Sundays echoes to the thump-thump of these guns. It is a growing social problem that needs to be tackled’. ”\n\n


\nBut the real story is how Google flattens the world. A quick poke around showed that the main German website on the subject has gone down: all that’s left is a note <\/a> in Google’s cache saying “I know it’s illegal”.
\nBut then I discovered a Danish Article<\/a> about Canadian potato farmers shooting each other all summer long with the things; a portrait in a British lad-mag of an American Rambo,<\/a> preparing to launch his Potatoes of Mass Destruction; and even some clean-cut Californian boys, posing around their cannon<\/a>. If you scroll a bit further down there, you’ll see that they ahve a miniaturised version as well.
\nYet only the Germans seem to go into the woods and shoot at passing dog-walkers. Or are they the only nation which would pass special laws to ban the pastime? We”ll find out when the craze spreads here.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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