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Expectant parents fired a cannon to celebrate their baby shower. It exploded and killed a guest.
San Francisco Chronicle ^
| Feb. 8, 2021
| Katie Shepherd
Posted on 02/08/2021 6:24:34 AM PST by artichokegrower
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To: Red Badger
"when they get cold..."
When the balls fall off the Brass Monkey, then it may be too cold to fire such cannon.
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posted on
02/08/2021 9:04:35 AM PST
by
Deaf Smith
(When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
To: Texan Tory
(”By Dawn’s Early Light”)
I remember that episode from wa-a-ay back! In the advertisements for the show they showed the cannon explode.
In the actual program they did not show the explosion but showed a closeup of the “General’s” face as the cannon explodes.
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posted on
02/08/2021 9:19:14 AM PST
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Democrats have declared us to be THE OBSOLETE MAN in the Twilight Zone.)
To: Red Badger
“Other metals” includes cast iron.
To: Western Phil
I would suppose so, but cast iron isn’t usually available to these homemade cannon makers............
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posted on
02/08/2021 9:20:29 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(SLEAZIN' is the REASON for the TREASON .................................)
To: artichokegrower
Used to own a bronze foundry and every year would get someone asking us to pour a cannon. No way. The stories when cannons were used more people died firing them then the targets they aimed at.
Liability..... wow.
Can make a perfect casting and some idiot could blow it up.
To: ping jockey; mewzilla; Chode; Lockbox; carriage_hill; tubebender; SkyDancer; Salamander; infool7; ..
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posted on
02/08/2021 9:26:04 AM PST
by
mabarker1
((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !!!!)
To: artichokegrower
Seems like a 10-25% load of powder would have set off a nice symbolic bang without being such a danger.
Really sad the loss of life at a joyous event.
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posted on
02/08/2021 9:34:28 AM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(The Republican Party is dead. Long live the Founders Party.)
To: Texan Tory
Was shot at “The Citadel” in Charleston, SC.
To: Governor Dinwiddie
It seems that we got along perfectly well for centuries without a "gender reveal" party.When are the transactivists going to start persecuting the gender-reveal parents? How dare they celebrate biological sex?
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posted on
02/08/2021 9:41:41 AM PST
by
Albion Wilde
(Laughter separates us from despair and gives us a chance at love. --Craig Ferguson)
To: artichokegrower
You told me this was a digital Cannon!
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posted on
02/08/2021 9:48:53 AM PST
by
UnklGene
To: mabarker1
bigger than the beercan tennis ball shooters we used to make
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posted on
02/08/2021 9:50:22 AM PST
by
Chode
(Ashli Babbitt - #SayHerNAME)
To: Chode
LOL Yeah just a bit.
I met a Rotwiler in Arkansas that had a Bowling Ball for a Toy. He would get 2 of the holes with His teeth and carry it back to you and drop it and start running for the next throwing (or yard rolling as it was a very heavy ball).
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posted on
02/08/2021 10:25:16 AM PST
by
mabarker1
((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !!!!)
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To: artichokegrower
“Expectant parents fired a cannon to celebrate their baby shower. It exploded and killed a guest.”
Most people know enough to NOT stand in front of a cannon when it is being fired.
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posted on
02/08/2021 10:50:24 AM PST
by
BobL
(TheDonald.win is now Patriots.win)
To: artichokegrower; All
Some idiot near where I live in rural Florida, set off a homemade cannon on New Year's Eve years back and killed himself when it exploded.
But that's not the end of the stupidity. A year later, a friend of his, decided to fire his own homemade cannon off to memorialize the death of his friend the year before.
His cannon exploded, as well, and killed him too.
Hopefully that has cleaned the gene pool up some.
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posted on
02/08/2021 12:01:22 PM PST
by
HotHunt
To: ping jockey; All
One would think that most people who did really stupid stuff like you admit to, would be smart enough to tell their story by stating at the beginning, "I have a friend who did such and such....", instead of implicating themselves.
But then anyone who would do all those stupid things to begin with, is probably not smart enough to admit that they aren't the moron but that a "friend" is instead.
I'm just sayin'....
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posted on
02/08/2021 12:27:14 PM PST
by
HotHunt
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To: ping jockey
Calm down guy. Nobody is lying.
My comment was made with my tongue planted firmly in my cheek.
I was being sarcastic. Facetious.
It was meant to be taken figuratively, not literally.
My "I'm just sayin'...." is evidence of that.
My repsonse would have been, "Funny guy, huh?"
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posted on
02/08/2021 1:35:02 PM PST
by
HotHunt
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