We’ve seen vegetables transformed into musical instruments, but we haven’t read nearly enough news stories about legume-based artillery. Thankfully, this blurb from the November 2, 1907 edition The Fargo Forum and Daily Republican satisfies our inexplicable craving for 105-year-old news stories about angry farmers shooting annoying children with peas on Halloween. To wit, from TWO BROTHERS FILLED WITH PEAS:
https://gizmodo.com/the-man-who-can-transform-any-vegetable-into-a-musical-5875645
The boys had greatly annoyed a neighboring farmer last Hallowe’en, and this year he waited for them with a double-barreled shotgun loaded with peas. The boys approached his place and he let fly with both barrels, and his marksmanship was excellent.
For more fun with old-timey newspapers, see the flying stegosaurus and the Antarctic mosquito robot of 1913.
https://gizmodo.com/in-the-1920s-stegosaurus-had-the-ability-to-fly-like-a-5916003
https://gizmodo.com/in-1913-a-utah-newspaper-reported-that-a-giant-mosquit-5889124
[Via Kitschy Kitschy Coo]
