Jörg makes an Oreo-shooting pump-action crossbow

The latest from The Slingshot Channel: an Oreo Separation Pump Gun.

It's a basic human desire to destroy an OREO cookie with a pump action crossbow. Some men simply love neither cookie nor creme, so sometimes a man just needs to invent a badass crossbow to do the hard work of shooting the two from a powerful homemade weapon. Today, that man is meat lover and cookie-destroyer Jörg Sprave. Watch him operate the repeating 14-shot weapon he created that separates OREO cookies into very fine (but separated) crumbles.

(Thanks, Matthew!)

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bzishi

My first thought was to use this to shoot an Oreo into somebody’s mouth. My second thought was that this would be a really bad idea! And my third thought was that it might be okay if it went through some milk first.
- Drew Wellman
  
  Of course. Not without the Super Soaker full of milk.
  - bzishi
    
    Cross the streams in midair? The tricky part is balancing between not soaking the Oreo with enough milk and busting the teeth of the recipient vs. having too much milk and having the Oreo break up in a midair soggy mess that splats the recipient in the face. This is truly an engineering challenge for our times!
    - DreamboatSkanky
      
      “‘scuse me, Egon? You said crossing the streams was bad…”
  - Petzl
    
    Bring goggles.
dave3

C’mon Nabisco, send him a check!
cstatman

this is insanely aweseom
adonai

“It’s a basic human desire to destroy an OREO cookie with a pump action crossbow.”

Until I watched the video, I did not know that. However, I now completely agree.
Christopher Murray

In the headline: “crossbow” is inaccurate as their is no bow in the mechanism. It’s just a pump-action slingshot.
That said, I want one.
theophrastvs

why isn’t Jörg the head of some socially scary group or country or at least have his own (dedicated) TV show? he’s twice as entertaining as anything currently on ((which seems to be only reruns of ‘big bang theory’)) and seven times more impressive than the current head of the NRA.
- acidrain69
  
  Why does he need a TV show in some small eastern european country? He’s reaching plenty of people on Youtube.
Tom Ames

Is this another one of those “OMG this is such a cool and independent project not at all sponsored by Nabisco” videos like that Oreo de-creme-ing machine a few weeks ago?
- Alex Rudnick
  
  He’s probably responding to that one. But go watch his other videos! Jörg is unrelentingly amazing. And a terrifying human being.
- Petzl
  
  Was the Oreo decreming robot a Nabisco viral ad?
Boundegar

The only solution to a bad guy with Oreos…
- fredh
  
  It’s true, and once Oreo-shooting pump-action crossbows are outlawed…
geeks

This is why I love language. I am fairly certain this is the first time in history that the words “Next we are going to shoot an Oreo into ballistic gelatin” were uttered in that order.
- Petzl
  
  I disagree. It seems to be fairly common actually. I’ve now seen this very sentence twice in the space of a few minutes.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Don-Simpson/100000804408595 Don Simpson

Why would you shoot Oreos? Shoot those crappy Hydrox cookies instead!
- http://BrianEaston.net/ Brian Easton
  
  They don’t make them anymore.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2X6OHAN7GLVLAIP4QLECKD3NY4 morgane

he has to order his Oreos from Amazon! They don’t have them in Germany? Anyway, brilliant!
- http://twitter.com/DooMMasteR DooMMasteR
  
  we do have them, but they are like really cheap on amazon and sinze he probably needed a lot he would have had to grase a lot of supermarkets to get the desired amount… amazon delivered them right to his door :)
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2X6OHAN7GLVLAIP4QLECKD3NY4 morgane

and for Oreo, another win here:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/copyranter/oreo-once-again-wins-at-twitter
mandorim

Next up: a scientific study finds that Oreos are more damaging to one’s health if ingested than if shot against the temples at point-blank range.
http://twitter.com/basementaljack T C Carter

Today I learned that The Slingshot Channel is a thing …
http://joenolan.com/blog Joe Nolan

Notice there is no mention of this delicious contraption in Feinstein’s bill…
http://twitter.com/unexplodedscot Scott Rose

Couple this with squirt gun full of milk and you could probably hold off an army of preschoolers at least until nap-time.