but chucking balloons is amateur. launchers are the real deal. though they can attract a heavy police response.
I swear that there is something about the atmospheric pressure in the Ottawa Valley Region that makes people more predisposed to operating three-man water balloon catapults at some point in their youth.
A friend of mine who grew up in Smith's Falls reminisces about his crude trebuchet as if it were an old lover. You could fire a water balloon a good two blocks; an egg til you could no longer see it, if you wished.