Archive of Bad Ideas–Human Catapult Club: From the land that gave the world “extreme ironing,” comes this gem, which has been–surprise– shut down because, well, they killed someone. Poor sap–an exchange student from Bulgaria at Oxford who was apparently less aerodynamic than your average Brit–missed the landing net by inches after flying 100 feet through the air (would you allow some hungover engineer student to make that trajectory calculation for you?). Still, the Human Catapult Club, which is somehow connected to the “Dangerous Sport Club” and the “Oxford Stunt Factory” (even Monty Python couldn’t make this sh*t up), is an intriguing and oddly compelling idea. I like it. I just wouldn’t join it…



“Uh-oh. Now that I look at him Dmitri looks as if he might have put on a few pounds….”