The Water Pinata

Kim Carmack, executive director of Camp New Hope in Lake Mattoon, IL, hereby and -with lays universal and eternal claim to the invention of The Water Pinata, as illusrated here.

Kim writes:

"I work and play at a camp that specializes in fun for people who have disabilities. I believe that last summer our program coordinator, right here at Camp New Hope, invented the very first... Water Pinata.

"We take garbage bags, fill them with water, and hang them from the ceiling of the pavilion. Then we take turns getting blindfolded and hitting them with brooms.

"Since I first heard of your work, I have considered you the definitive authority on fun. If you could tell me that our camp is probably the place where the water pinata was invented, that would be really fun.

Alas, I can not attest to the primacy of Ms. Carmack's discovery of the Water Pinata. I have found mention of it here, here, and here. And so it goes with inventiveness. Sometimes we invent the already invented, or vice versa. Which makes it no less an invention!

I, Major Fun, therefore, in my role of Junkmaster and as an apparently recognized authority on fun, do therefore and hereby present Ms Carmack and her campers a coveted spot in the Junkyard Sports Hall of Fame as inventors of the Water Pinata. They may not be the only inventors. But inventors they truly are.