Ballard Street by Jerry Van Amerongen for January 15, 2018

Muncie isn’t always right but he leaves a lasting impression.

Maybe not a David/Goliath thing, but it looks like it hurt like heck.

Forget the Spanish Inquisition …

Nobody expects the Muncie trebuchet!

Mr. Muncie was munching his way through the “Business” section at Ballard St. Fresh Books and Salad Bar….

Reading quickly, because he was having the $4.99 for 25 minutes Businessman’s Lunch Plate….

he spied a slim volume titled “10 Ideas To Help Catapult You to Success.”

No time to read it, didn’t want to spend $17.92 to buy it….

But the title, all on its own, inspired him to combine his hobby with his work…

and blend all his expertise into one, unstoppable force.

He hopes.

Interesting that Muncie should have the FOREsight to install and load that device.

Unfortunate that Mr. Douglas could not FOREsee what was about to happen. Even if Muncie had yelled “FORE” there was probably little chance for Douglas to FOREstall the projectile. FORE shame, Muncie!

It appears that Mr Muncie has carefully placed his catapult so that it will hit a person sitting in front of his desk or standing at his doorway smack dab in the forehead.

He seems to be covering all the angles.

Did you really need to point that out?

Ouch!

Looks to me like someone got rocked to sleep.

It’ll be more like a big “goose egg”! ;o)

Mr. Muncie only switched to a catapult after he was hoist on his own petard…

I live in Muncie Indiana and we have catapults, trebuchets, and , mangonels everywhere. The NRA maintains it is our right to have them. They, of course, sell rocks. hmmmm

That’s substantially larger than the mousetrap-based one that I have on my desk at work. I picked up mine at the Bristol (Wisconsin) Renaissance Fair.

To catch him by surprise, Mr. Muncie must have a latch that lets it go automatically when the drawer is opened far enough.