Documentary on a hot dog launcher
The Hot Dog Launcher is a familiar sight at Philadelphia Phillies baseball games in Citizens Bank Park. The bazooka shoots frankfurters high into the stands in between innings. Ad agency Red Tettemer made a funny short documentary about the invention of the Hot Dog Launcher. It's a great bit of marketing for Hatfield Quality Meats, sponsors of the Launcher. Hatfield Hotdog Launcher Documentary
Previously on Boing Boing Gadgets:
• Behold the Meat Cannon of Philadelphia
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"familiar sight"
So has anyone caught one of these hot dogs? How do they taste? Do they come all dressed?
The latest and imho best "Real Men of Genius" commercial by Budweiser has a similar subject: the t-shirt launcher. Each line is gold ("Because we know you'll give us the shirt off your back...at 180'/sec). A lot better than the beer it advertises.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1b3pJYfv5eg
...like launching a hot dog into an open stadium.
Ben Franklin would be proud...
That can't be sanitary.
But I had no idea the Phillie Phanatic was a maker.
Marvelous engineering.
This could feed the third-world.
It's all fun and games until your hotdog-attracting antics get your neighbor's wife killed.
@angry young man: My sister is the volunteer coordinator for a Not-For-Profit here in Chicago and every summer does a field day type thing for her organization where they have Benny The Bull (from the Bulls) show up.
My sister has got to shoot the T-shirt gun for the last 3 years. The thing is half her size (she is kind if tiny, though) and leaves bruises.
My jealousy is pretty huge. But she does a LOT of work, and deserves it.
Every repost is repost repost.
*snif* (dabs at eyes)
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I will be euphemising that, thank you.
Maybe they could mount some of those to cruise liners to fight off Somali pirates. If nothing else, think of the humor value.
The hot dog launcher recently caused some trouble--something was being filmed with the hot dog launcher (might have been this very clip), and three of the wrapped hot dogs were left in front of the stadium. Someone saw them, called the police, and there was a bomb scare over hot dogs.
http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/102-09252008-1596131.html
It needs to be about ten minutes longer, they left a lot of important details out.