I was pootling along the canal towpath on my commute home last night – it’d be about quarter past five – when I was startled by a thwack / woosh sound coming from behind. I stopped and looked and couldn’t believe what I saw. Tumbling through the air, with a parabolic trajectory, a flaming bale of hay was hurtling towards me like a hairy meteorite. I quickly dismounted and dived into some undergrowth as the bale splashed and sizzled into the water just yards away. Phew what a lucky escape.

I called the police on my mobile and the operator said “So, no harm done then hay.”

Bloody scandalous.

It was this guy…

I’d have gone ballista-ic at them.

Its a god damn arms race

Trebuchet eh?

The deadliest of all fonts.

It was this guy.

“I’ll tell him, but I don’t think he’ll be very keen. You see, we’ve already got one.”

Its a god damn arms race

I always thought that was “it’s a golf cart, a**e-face”

hurtling towards me like a hairy meteorite.

Sounds like Ladies Night at my local… 😯

Don’t know what your problem is, I’ve twung flaming hay bales through the air all my life, and never seen anyone injured.

Don’t know what your problem is, I’ve twung flaming hay bales through the air all my life, and never seen anyone injured.

😆

I’ve been hit by a flaming hay bale before and it certainly wasn’t hot enough to puncture the skin so I wouldn’t worry.

what is a trebuchet?

kids’ toy.

I farted in your general direction too.

Trebuchet’s are easy, I looked on Al Jazeera once, and now every time I go out I hear these funny droning noises and random explosions keep going off all around me.. 🙁

plyphon – Member

I’ve been hit by a flaming hay bale before and it certainly wasn’t hot enough to puncture the skin so I wouldn’t worry.

that is the stupidest comment on this forum all year!

It wasn’t the canal near Warwick was it….?

I’ve been hit by a flaming hay bale before and it certainly wasn’t hot enough to puncture the skin so I wouldn’t worry.

I’ve been firing flaming hay bales since I was 11, even got as far as competing at local legion level, and never once saw someone injured by one. Occasional we had a singed tunic, but that was about it.

Unlike most on here i HAVE actually shot someone with a trebuchet 🙂

doing a show at Barnard Castle, we were the assault force and camped in the outer bailey, the defenders were inside the castle proper behind a 70ft ditch and good walls.
Went to the pub on the Saturday night, came back around midnight pretty steaming, someone thought loading the trebuchet with water balloons was a good idea..

Picture the scene, the Clarence Household sat around a roaring fire drinking heavily – when silently, out of the night sky drops a perfect shot..

..right into the fire 😀

I had a painful Ballista once. 😀