Helmut G. Winter

Helmut G. Winter

In 1967, a Munich resident named Helmut G. Winter built a catapult to launch Bavarian potato dumplings at noisy planes flying over his house forcing the West German Luftwaffe pilots to concede defeat and change their flight path.

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