from the Dublin Airport web site:
“The following items must not be packed in your hand luggage. They must be placed in your hold baggage. If these items are discovered in your hand luggage you will be requested to surrender the items for disposal:
damn. And here I was hoping to bring my catapult on board the plane with me. Looks like I won’t be laying siege to anything during the flight back to Canada 🙁
now all I have to do is figure out how to cram it into a suitcase…
Tee hee! I wanted to take a catapult too!
well, I don’t see “Ballistas” on that list. Maybe I can storm some castles in the sky after all.
TREBUCHET!
Too funny. I wonder if they put that in there as a joke. Does anyone actually own a catapult?
Nothing about trebuchets or mangonels either – you have options!
–riney
I had a hunch upon seeing this…
And yes, in the UK, a catapult is another term for a slingshot (see this UK Ebay example).
I owned one of those metal arm-brace slingshots as a kid. They’re amazingly powerful (and awesome).
yeah, okay we figured that out too. But come on, isn’t it much more fun to think about bringing a full-scale medieval catapult on board an airplane?
Maybe you can use the spoon to build a makeshift catapult.
Dude, you have PLENTY of options left! Trebuchets, mangonels, ballistas, and of course arbalests!