SPUDS WITH GUNS

Just in case you didn't misspend at least part of your childhood launching vegetables around the neighbourhood, a spud gun is a home made potato cannon. Spud itself is West Australian slang for a none-too-bright person. Thus the humour in this story about a spud gun:

A 24-YEAR-old woman is being treated in the Royal Perth Hospital for facial injuries she received when a spud gun exploded in her face at Maddington yesterday.

Police were told her 29-year-old boyfriend had kept the weapon in a shipping container in the backyard to use against intruders and the woman had found the device and was looking down the barrel as she placed it on the ground.

The spud gun ignition switch had fired and a solid paper ball hit the woman in the face.

Oh well, at least she didn't point the thing at anyone.

Update: It's not just the muzzle you gotta respect.