Have any of you guys and gals even read Pat McManus stories and books?
If you have you will be familiar with this story, I'm not going to do it justice because I'm winging it from memory, which isn't great these days.
But Pat and his buddy Crazy Eddie Muldoon built a cannon to fire Croquet balls using a PVC pipe and a salvaged baby carriage.
Bright and early one morning they took their cannon out to the local golf course. Where they stuffed it full of black powder then the croquet ball.
Crazy Eddie was wearing his favorite cook skin hat and he asked to be the one to fire it first Pat was more than happy with this arrangement and took a couple of steps back. But not far enough.
Eddie touched it off and that's all they remember for a few minutes. Soon they were in the company of the local police officer who was surveying the damage he saw a smoking hole in the ground and twisted carriage wheels. . The smoke had mostly cleared when the officer asked, Are you boys smoking, Pat replied that, no, but if you had arrived sooner you would have seen us on fire. The officer grunted and kicked eddies still smouldering coon skin hat laying on the ground and said sorry about your dog!
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No, just a picture online is all. I would bet you're close?
