[laura]

I am gearing up for summer programming and I want to plany a game with the kids involving a water balloon sling shot. The ad for the sling shot says "never to aim at people", but what if you were aiming at a large bucket and accidentally hit the person that was holding/manuevering the bucket? Would that hurt? Kids are resilient right?

 

[TN]

no.45

 

[splat]

Thats Just Lawyer speak.

at what range ? I'm sure point blank range would not be a good thing

 

[laura]

They will be ina field, and the goal will be to hit the bucket that their team mates are carrying, so the farther the distance the harder it will be/the more their team mates will have to move to make sure they catch it. Since activity is the point of the game, I'll have the spread out pretty far.

I also read that water balloon sling shots can reach up to 75 mph. sounds painful.

 

[Jeremy R]

Sounds dangerous.
I would just get them to catch lawn darts in a bucket.

 

[splat]

Lets Get MMike as a test subject

 

[vtjim]

I've played with those things back in the day, and honestly I don't think they should be shot at children. Or at a bucket being held by a child. Bad news.

 

[laura]

I've played with those things back in the day, and honestly I don't think they should be shot at children. Or at a bucket being held by a child. Bad news.

Thank you. We'll use stationary targets.

 

[jonKranked]

Even at ~100ft, they frikkin hurt. I know first hand.

 

[Secret Squirrel]

Even at ~100ft, they frikkin hurt. I know first hand.

yes. yes they do.

 

[HAB]

Even at ~100ft, they frikkin hurt. I know first hand.

I got hit in the back of the head with one once. It knocked me over.

 

[CrabJoe StretchPants]

You all sound like a bunch of pvssies.


NTTAWWT

 

[DirtMcGirk]

NSFW, but you get the point...

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Kids these days need to be hardened the **** up!

 

[Greyhound]

When I was in college, some buddies and I built a raft out of 12 empty kegs and some plywood for a raft race down the Tar River in Greenville. Along the river, teams of people were lined up on the bank and on the bridge overpass with giant water balloon slingshots to try and hit the people on the rafts. Taking a shot from one of these things launched from 100ft. or directly above you really knocked the snot out of you. Of course, we were pretty tanked anyways, but it still hurt.

I'm not sure which was worse though....fast moving projectiles or the pollution in the river.

 

[dante]

after these stories of adults (or at least college kids) getting hit HARD with these things, I'm laughing at imagining 7yo little Suzie getting clobbered by one and then Laura having to explain to the parents what happened.

 

[TN]

There is a polish deli 'round the corner from us that sells fluffernutters.
that is all.

 

[SkaredShtles]

Just make sure you buy those flimsy cheap-a$$ water balloons at the dollar store. There is no WAY those things could hurt anyone. Hell - most of them probably won't even survive the launch.

 

[Serial Midget]

I have the answer... water balloon team toss. Requires 2 kids per team and a lot of teams to be fun. The teams line up face to face and toss a water balloon to each other. After each toss they take a half step backwards and toss again. The object of the game is to be the team that can toss their balloon the the farthest without exploding it.

 

[Serial Midget]

Kids are resilient right?

Kids are - parents aren't. Lawyer up.

 

[AngryMetalsmith]

I've been hit in the face with a water balloon thrown from an suv going about 40 mph while riding at night. I estimate the baloon to be easily traveling at 60-75 mph.

It felt the same as getting punched in the nose. I wound up icing down my nose.

Balloon slingshots produce even more force.

 

[stinkyboy]

We got drunk and shot them into the College World Series from the parking lot many years ago.

That's all I have.

 

[laura]

I have the answer... water balloon team toss. Requires 2 kids per team and a lot of teams to be fun. The teams line up face to face and toss a water balloon to each other. After each toss they take a half step backwards and toss again. The object of the game is to be the team that can toss their balloon the the farthest without exploding it.

Good game! Keep them coming.

 

[Pesqueeb]

Used to have one back in the day that my brother and I would shoot with the nieghbor kid. You can easily achieve distances of 4 to 5 large home lots. I would expect that a direct hit from one might = teh suck.

 

[elRey]

We got drunk and shot them into the College World Series from the parking lot many years ago.

That's all I have.

have the kids do this.

and the keg raft.