. At the Projects committee meeting in June it was decided what STOOP’s next project would be. With the $50,000 donated during the month of April, STOOP decided to purchase 25,000 "Pinata Busters" and burn them all. With these 25,000 weapons off the market at least 25,000 pinatas were saved, for each one of those weapons would have been used to kill a pinata. This was done in an attempt to achieve STOOP’s primary goal, to Stop The Oppression Of Pinatas.

This is the murder weapon with which so many pinatas are killed each year. STOOP, having an extra $50,000 to spend, decided as a small project they would purchase 25,000 of the "Pinata Busters" and burn them.

The ceremony started with a dissertation by J.L. Hoopes, STOOP’s president, in which he made some powerful challenges. He not only urged STOOP sympathizers to keep spreading the word about the evils done to the pinata and to keep donations flowing, but also made another powerful statement. He said "STOOP’s last project, the Home For Battered Pinatas, was a great success, in fact, it was too much of a success. The Home has reached capacity, and so I urge each one of you, if occasion demands, to be willing to put Battered Pinatas up in your own homes, give them the same love you give your own children." After his speech J.L. Hoopes did the honors by breaking the first of these 25,000 "Pinata Busters" right over his knee, taking the risk of splinters and bruises just to save a pinata.

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Here, our determined leader shows us the dismantled weapon, which he so fearlessly broke over his own knee, risking personal safety just to save a pinata.

After breaking the first of the "Pinata Busters" J.L. Hoopes astounded everyone by getting out a gallon of gas and drenching the tool of the devil with it, in preparation for its ultimate demise.

Here, with the same heroic braveness he demonstrated before by breaking and drenching the perilous stick, our president lights the tool of death on fire, not even considering the possible threat of singed eyebrows.

The tool of the devil, the murder weapon designed to kill pinatas, serves its only truly useful purpose-- firewood.

Here lie the remains of the burned demon. After this small burning those in attendance had the privilege of watching 24,999 more Pinata Busters go up in smoke in a huge fire.

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