No one should ever make a potato cannon. They are wildly unsafe, powerful, and can easily shatter your neighbor’s gaudy bay window, you know the neighbor with the mean dog. That said, [Jeremy Cook] ...

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If the cost of all that hairspray and sacks of potatoes is cramping your spud gun shooting style it might be time to build this air-powered cannon that can shoot water balloons, potatoes, steel spikes ...

A Rhode Island man opened fire on his neighbor's home this week — using corncobs and a homemade potato gun. Jeffrey M. Osella, 50, has been feuding with his neighbor for the past 13 years, police say.