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Someone Weaponized a Frisbee by Attaching Scalpels

Ah, the time-honored YouTube genre of Guy Messing with Stuff in a Badass Way.
Rachel Pick
New York, US

If you really, really want to win a game of Ultimate Frisbee, and don't care about going to jail, consider this Frisbee/ninja throwing star hybrid created by YouTube user Jörg Sprave.

Sprave started out by attaching screws to the rim of a regular old plastic Frisbee (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.

Sprave's channel ("The Slingshot 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. Still, you'd probably want him around for Armageddon.