This just in from the Ministry of Defense...

Will Catapults Out-Chunk Air Guns at Pumpkin-Chunking World Championship 2008?

Ah, one of the more... unique aspects of hailing from "Slower Lower" has always been Punkin' Chunkin'. To answer the article's title... no way in hell. As much as I hate to admit it. I'm old school when it comes to chunkin'. I prefer the trebuchets most of all, but they simply don't have the range the air cannons do. They're less likely to "make pie", as it's called when you blow your punkin' to smithereens rather than launch it across the field, but they lack the power and range of the air cannons. But who knows. Maybe they held their own. I haven't gone to Punkin' Chunkin' in a few years as it's gotten insanely crowded.