Maybe I'll get some Michigan FReepers together and lay siege to Ann Arbor.
Posted on 12/07/2011 6:54:14 PM PST by marktwain
A cannonball misfired by the "Mythbusters" TV show crew blasted through an East Dublin home Tuesday afternoon while its occupants were asleep. It then smashed through a window of a minivan parked a few hundred feet away.
No one was injured, and the home's residents did not wake up until the dust was settling on top of them, said an Alameda County Sheriff's Office spokesman.
The cannon was shot at the Sheriff's Office bomb range behind Santa Rita Jail about 4:15 p.m., said the spokesman, J.D. Nelson, who is also a consultant for the Discovery Channel TV show. He had been at the site with show producers all day, he said, though he said he was not by the cannon when it fired.
which they built -- at the range more than 50 times without incident, Nelson said.
Tuesday was different.
The cannonball was supposed to go through a few water-filled barrels and a concrete wall. Instead, it passed over the barrels, through the wall, and then took a "very unfortunate bounce that sent the ball skyward," Nelson said.
About 700 feet away, it bounced in front of a home on Cassata Place, then tore upward through the home's front door and out midway up the back wall of the two-story house. Light could be seen shining through a round, cantaloupe-sized hole from inside the house out to Tassajara Road.
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LOL it was bound to happen eventually.
Can’t wait to see this episode! Also, I’m waiting for the knee-jerkers to scream that “something needs to be done!!!!” about the show.
Wow! That’s a heck of a lesson in “inertia.”
They were cleaning it and it just went off. Coulda happened to anybody.
Now that’s a cannonball...
I’m actually mostly amazed that the Sheriff’s department has a bomb range.
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What is it they say at the beginning of the show? “The Mythbusters are experts with years of professional experience. Don’t try this at home”.
Oops!
I wonder what their insurance rates are to film a show like that?
It's called grazing fire with solid shot. Was a favorite for about a century. Ugly results into massed ranks. It just don't stop. See Gettysburg for the results.
/johnny
You shouldn’t be, given what section of the country it’s in, and also given the time we live in.
Wouldn't you? If you could? I know I would.
/johnny
Adam Savage apology
http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2011/12/mythbusters-accident-adam-savage-apologizes.html
Well, technically momentum, not inertia...
WEll, I guess that their insurance premiums just went up.
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