German dog-walker has close call with coconut cannon
Mar 15, 2017 | 4:15 PM
BERLIN — A dog walker in the German capital can be thankful he turned out to be a fruitless target after his close call with a coconut cannon.
The man was walking in an industrial area on March 1 when he heard a bang and a ball-shaped projectile flew past him, hitting a nearby lamppost.
Berlin police say officers called to the scene were surprised to find a large homemade cannon capable of shooting coconuts at high speeds with compressed air.
A 23-year-old man told officers he had helped to build the cannon for an art project in the Antarctic and wanted to test it before it was shipped.