Water Cannon

[den]

Not one of mine.

If it was one of mine it would have less than 5 minutes of squirty time.

Comments

[lonita.livejournal.com]

Did you know you lived in Dumbo (http://www.smh.com.au/news/news/net-users-seek-holidays-at-brian-bay/2007/08/20/1187462151637.html)?

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

hee!

[carlfoxmarten]

Hmm, I'd say that was a good investment, though I do agree about the possibility of innocent people getting hurt if used improperly...

It does sound rather silly if you only hear a little bit about it...
"Hey, did you hear that the New South Wales government has a new armoured vehicle that has a water cannon on it?"
"Hmm, no I hadn't, bet you could use it for long distance water fights, eh?"

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

They're issuing it to some of the biggest bogans in the country: NSW Police. Hot days at City Central will be fun.

[daemionfox.livejournal.com]

Great, now you've got me thinking about riot cannons, and how to make them even sillier.

I personally like the concept of shooting the equiviliant of a 3 litre "ball" at ridiculously high speeds. Would be less wasteful than a continous stream, and the 12k litre tank would last more than 5 minutes...

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

I'd fill it with something that glows in the dark and hire it out to raves.

[daemionfox.livejournal.com]

I think there's a market for that here. Can we build it?

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

I can build it! Getting the glowy stuff that won't burn off faces is hard.

[daemionfox.livejournal.com]

Nah, you can get non-toxic fluorescent water dyes. www.blacklite.com makes em. They use em in Disney displays and Haunted House attractions.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Cool! When do we start?

[marmoe.livejournal.com]

I fear you are a bit late with this quest. There are leaping fountains already, I only just found out that they add fluorescein, too.

http://www.atlanticfountains.com/leapfrog.htm

On the original article, is that riot control truck a first in Australia? They are very common in Europe.

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

This is the first in the country, and the only reason NSW Police bought it was for the APEC conference.

[charles.livejournal.com]

The only problem is that with the current water restrictions, they can only use it every second Thursday.