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January 29th, 2007

Police get their bearings, girl has a fling…

Posted by: Robert Basler
Tags: Uncategorized

Many of you have asked why we don’t have more stuff about slingshots.  Here you go….

Tijuana cops, their guns taken away for ballistics tests, make their rounds armed with slingshots and bags of ball bearings.  Here is the video courtesy of 10news.com:

Meanwhile, a young woman is hurled from a giant slingshot

slingshot.jpg 

Masked Palestinian youth uses a slingshot to fire projectiles at Israeli soldiers in a 2000 file photo.  REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah

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