Re: RARA-AVIS: Zip Gun Bop
rikke & hanne Kesten (rbkhbk@bcn.net)
Sun, 06 Sep 1998 16:25:49 -0300
As a kid growing up in a tough New York neighborhood in the
Forties, we
would break off car antennae, tape a section to a wooden
"handle" and
insert a 22 cartridge in the hollow of the antenna. A rubber
band
impelled nail (ergo, the "zip") served as firing pin. It was
as
dangerous to the user as to anyone in the vicinity of where the
gun was
aimed.
--steve kesten
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