Catapult hurls obsolete projectiles:
Four Minnesota friends fashioned a medieval catapult to fling a variety of objects — such as wheelchairs and obsolete appliances — into the sky, they said.The men, all in their 30s, built a trebuchet — a catapult originally designed in the Middle Ages to hurl objects at castle walls — the St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press reported Sunday.
The trebuchet was built by Kurt Modert, of Hugo; Roger Bacon, of White Bear Lake; Ryan Krueger, of Maple Grove; and David Proehl, of New Hope — all municipalities in Minnesota — the newspaper said.
They’re catapulting items like defective bowling balls for now but they plan eventually to launch a clothes dryer, the newspaper said.
