It Hurts So Good: Homemade Microwave Guns

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

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Clearly someone didn’t get enough love as a child because this is crazy. These guys took apart an old microwave, took out the magnetron, and turned it into a weapon. The resulting hilarity and hijinks remind us how microwave ovens were actually invented when someone at a radar installation found a burnt bird — some say it was a maintenance man — that had nestled into a dish for warmth.

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