You must’ve heard of Joerg Sprave if you while away as much time as we do on YouTube. If not, here’s a little primer: The affable American’s channel is mostly dedicated to his homemade slingshots and other rubber-powered launchers, but a couple of other videos are dedicated to weaponizing ordinary objects, like table tennis balls. He’s really into huge knives, too, which he frequently describes as “badass” in a delightful Bavarian accent. Like a lot of people who do this sort of thing on YouTube, Sprave does not have an engineering degree and builds his slingshots and other weapons purely as a hobby.
This time round, Sprave turned his attention to Frisbees, asking: “Can we make a lethal weapon out of these innocuous objects?”
To find out, Sprave took a bright green Frisbee and started out by attaching screws to its rim (pointed end facing out, of course). But the result wasn’t sexy or damaging enough, so Sprave went one step further, attaching four super-sharp scalpel blades to the Frisbee using a wooden ring as the mount. The Barracuda scalpel is the longest scalpel blade you can get, according to Sprave, and “designed to cut through flesh.”
Sprave chucks the Frisbee around his backyard for a while, mercilessly slicing up some shrubbery and a cardboard box, which frankly did nothing to deserve such treatment. “That would have hurt,” he guffaws. We concur.
This is, of course, not the first time we’ve seen such a deadly device. Hollywood has been dreaming of weaponizing the playful discs for years. Perhaps no movie has done this better than the 1987 classic Hard Ticket to Hawaii.
Hit up Joerg Sprave’s YouTube channel to see some of his other wacky creations!
