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William Singalargh, 27, faces up to five years in prison for assault with a deadly weapon. More specifically, he threw a deadly weapon some 16 or so feet at a 15 year-old boy. Even MORE specifically, the deadly weapon was a hedgehog. And the deadly weapon, though not deadly to the target, proved deadly to the weapon itself. The hedgehog was pronounced dead on the scene.

Dr. Ivo Robotnik was called in for questioning by NL Federal Police but later released.

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Via Gadgetastic

A patent was filed for a totally sweet shark fighting knife. It’s got a compressed air cylinder in the handle. So, you stab the shark (like ya do…), press the trigger, and the knife releases all this air into the shark's body, totally messing it up. Here’s how the inventor says it:

When in the depressed position, the internal bore communicates with the compressed gas source and when in said not depressed position, the internal bore is blocked from the compressed gas source. When a creature is pierced with the knife, the trigger is depressed injecting compressed gas into the creature greatly enhancing the incapacitating effect of the knife.

It is, apparently, based on a previous shark-repelling device that was a spear gun with a similar air injection system. One commenter said he’d seen footage of the effects: the shark puked its own stomach out.

There is no way this can be anything but radness personified. There's literally no way it can go wrong. We’re in talks as of this blog to have a dedicated channel on Ripe: Shark Inflators. Keep an eye out.

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In the arms race fought in living rooms, action figures have a harrowing new weapon at their disposal: It’s the TandemZ-1 Micro Chopper, or, as it is known among our ranks: Crimson Raptor.

The TandemZ-1 is the obvious next step up from the now comparatively weak-sauce Pico-Z Apache version and can be used for troop transport (in your imagination) as well as ramming irritating coworkers. It runs on AA batteries and aerial imperialism, and costs a scant $80. Good luck, soldier.

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This is some serious Halo 3 replay sh*t right here. We thought that shots like that were illegal or advised against or too cool for reality. We've never been so happy to be wrong.

Via Gizmodo

Brickarms is a LEGO customization company run by Will Chapman that specializes in weaponry. When his 9-year old came of age (as indicated by liking guns) he started asking dad where he could get historically accurate weapons for his WW2 LEGO scenarios. *sniff. Fingers crossed that our son will make us that proud.

After that Will (who appears to be some kind of engineer) started designing and molding his own firearms to meet with the stringent expectations of his target audience – his son.

It’s come a pretty long way to the point where there are now 21 contemporary firearms available. It’s gotten popular enough, even, that Will got his dentist friend to cast some Bondian Gold PPKs at his office.

The Disintigrator is a wood-bodied rubber band Gatling gun…(goosebumps). It’s completely motorized and automatic. The slowest thing about it is the loading of the 288 rubber bands. The fastest thing is, like your mom said, “putting somebody’s eye out.”

Nerditudes like these have never been so awesome. Somebody had a lot of time and a lot of brains and a lot of extra kick-ass in order to forge so mighty a gear of household/office warfare. We bow and offer our allegiance to your couch cushion fortress!

CNN reporter David Martin tries to make a run at the Army’s new ray gun. Epic fail. Now all we have to do is make sure we’re fighting 55-year old men with glasses and now body armor who’s physical prowess can get them up-and-gliding on an elliptical at the local Gold’s Gym.

This dude caught a five foot shark with his bare hands. That'd be like catching Gary Coleman with your bare hands if Gary Coleman had row after row of razor sharp teeth, the ability to breathe underwater, skin made of needles, and had a few more social graces.

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Novint has come out with a controller that doesn’t look fun in the least – it looks like something one might see at a gynecological exam – but it totally fun*.

It’s a controller with a pistol grip for first person shooters that gives force feedback in three dimensions. If you get shot in the right temporal lobe, you jerk to the left (kinda) like in real life. The difference, of course, being that you don’t suffer brain damage, and you’re still able to strafe right to frag the alien that shot you.

*We realize that some readers believe gynecological exams to be the apex of fun, but we urge those readers to realize for their own social welfare that the majority of the population does not.

This guy, this demigod, took a toy chainsaw and modded it into the gun from the XBOX 360 game Gears of War. Some people would say this gentleman has too much time on his hands. We disagree, and retort: think of the possibilities if he had more!

Via Crave

The Nerf Vulcan EBF-25 is a chain-fed 25 shot Nerf machine gun for mowing down your enemies be they lurking in cubicles or nested behind couch cushion fortification.

It won’t be available until Fall of ’08, so you’ve got time to develop countermeasures such as foam body armor and Nerf grenades (particularly effective against a stationary mount such as the Vulcan). It’s battery powered by a terrifying 6 D batteries and looks to be an indispensable addition to any truly fleshed out Nerf arsenal. Coming to a toy store near you soon, this baby will retail for a scant $40.

Via Wii Fanboy

But who cares because this is awesome. It’s a Wii blaster for Wii first person shooters that MORPHS into a NERF gun. It works as both. It’s like a Power Ranger, except socially acceptable (most of the time).

Via Jalopnik

It’s taken automotive visionary Frank Rinderknecht 30 years to realize the dream of a submersible car. Obsessed since he first witnessed the animation of one in the famous “Spy Who Loved Me” chapter of James Bond, he’s been working to make the idea more than a cartoon ever since.

And now, using carbon nano tubes and three lithium-ion powered engines, he’s done it in the Rinspeed Zero-Emission sQuba.

If can travel on land and water and, when submerged, maneuver on all axis. It allows you to breath underwater through integrated scuba systems, but lacks an enclosed cockpit. You’ll get a little wet when you submerge, but you do what you have to when skirting supervillains.

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Rambo opens today, and we haven’t seen it yet, but guarantee it’s going to be flawless. Number one: Rambo knows his role. Witness the following quote:

“Every actor would like to say that you’re Daniel Day-Lewis and have this incredible palette, but quite often you’re known for certain things. So I said, ‘If I could end my career on something, I’d like to finish up the loose end on Rambo.’

Number two: watch this trailer, and brace yourself for 2:05 mark.

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There’s only 24 hours in a day and if you must insist on sleeping for even a fraction of one of them, may we suggest you employ the Danger Bomb alarm clock.

Every night, when you set your alarm, Danger Bomb randomly selects one of the three wires that you have to “cut” in the morning to stop your room from exploding. Breakfast, it seems, is the most perilous meal of the day.

Sleep soundly, friends, knowing that a block of high explosives is ticking next to your skull throughout the night.