We've seen plenty of die-hard fans in our time here at Asylum -- be they shirt-swappers at women's football matches or American football lovers who'd delay a heart operation to watch their team play -- but 12-year-old Sam Beards from Barford, Warwickshire takes the biscuit with this Angry Birds cannon.
Constructing levels from the jaw-droppingly popular mobile phone game using hay bales and bric-a-brac from his dad's farm, Sam has replaced the birds with pumpkins and the pigs with massive green melons. "I like the game and my brothers and I thought it would good fun to take the idea from Angry Birds and put it into real life," said Sam. Turns out it is good fun. Such good fun that we really want a go, and sharpish! Almost as much as we want to play on the "Human Slingshot", in fact... Sam's dad, Dorian, created the cannon this time last year as an attraction for halloween, but it was Sam's idea to convert it for more bird-based purposes. "We fire it every two hours in the run up to Halloween, which all the kids seem to love. When Sam said he wanted to make a life-like Angry Birds game using the cannon, I didn't know what he was talking about. I'd never heard of it," said Dorian Beards. "When he explained what it was I thought: 'So that's what you've been doing all this time on your iPod'." via
