Mythbusters cannon experiment gone wall. Shoots cannonball through someones house.

[IonRL205 10+ year member]

Mythbusters Cannon Fail

A wacky stunt for the TV show “Mythbusters” went haywire Tuesday and sent a cannonball tearing though a sleeping family's home in California.

 

The occupants miraculously escaped injury.

 

“It was crazy. That's for sure," Sgt. J.D. Nelson of the Alameda County Sheriff's Department told the Daily News. “If someone asked me two days ago, 'Could this homemade cannon shoot that far, off a hill into this neighborhood?' I would have said no way. But now it's confirmed."

 

He said the popular Discovery Channel show intended to fire the 6-inch steel cannonball to test its velocity. It aimed the projectile at huge containers of water meant to absorb the impact on the grounds of the sheriff's bomb disposal range.

 

But the ball somehow missed its mark, took an unforeseen bounce off a safety berm and barreled into the quiet Tassajara Creek neighborhood of Dublin about 4 p.m. Tuesday.

 

That's where the projectile turned into a suburban pinball, bouncing off a sidewalk, blasting through a front door, barreling up some stairs and careening through a bedroom where a man, woman and child were reportedly sleeping.

 

The cannonball then punched through the home's exterior stucco wall, sailed across a six-lane thoroughfare, ricocheted off the roof of another home and finally crashed through the window of a parked, empty Toyota Sienna minivan, where it came to rest.

 

"I had just got out of the van five minutes earlier," owner Jasbir Gill, 42, told local media, according to KTVU. "I'm glad my kids weren't inside the van. So lucky."

 

Sgt. Nelson said dust from the shattered sheetrock woke the sleeping family, not the sound of the ball.

 

Nelson said the San Francisco-based TV production has insurance coverage, but that the bomb disposal range has been shut down pending a safety review.

 

He said his department had worked with the producers on about 50 previous experiments.

 

"This show promotes science. It's one of the reasons we do the show. We believe in the message. But something like this obviously can't happen," Nelson said.

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[bubbagumper6 5,000+ posts]

haha, classic

 

[brodeisel 10+ year member]

so much win

 

[06goat 10+ year member]

I like how they say "alan wong" dont none of you mufaqqas tell me thats the way its pronounced

 

[wenn_du_weinst 10+ year member]

who the **** is sleeping at 4pm?

 

[Imtjnotu 5,000+ posts]

no better time to post kari

 

[R34P3R 10+ year member]

who the **** is sleeping at 4pm?

Since I only ever see you get groaned, I'll go ahead and toss you that thanks. I didn't watch the video but I read all the text and didn't catch exactly how far the cannonball traveled? You would think they would have exact measurements pertaining to how much powder they would need to stay in the range safely. I see lawsuits in Discovery's future though...

 

[IonRL205 10+ year member]

Since I only ever see you get groaned, I'll go ahead and toss you that thanks. I didn't watch the video but I read all the text and didn't catch exactly how far the cannonball traveled? You would think they would have exact measurements pertaining to how much powder they would need to stay in the range safely. I see lawsuits in Discovery's future though...

They missed their target. If you watched the video you would see they meant to hit trash cans, and they missed.

 

[thevic24 5,000+ posts]

Since I only ever see you get groaned, I'll go ahead and toss you that thanks. I didn't watch the video but I read all the text and didn't catch exactly how far the cannonball traveled? You would think they would have exact measurements pertaining to how much powder they would need to stay in the range safely. I see lawsuits in Discovery's future though...

It flew 700 yds...

I have a few questions...

1. Why is there a residential neighborhood 700yds from a BOMBING range??

2. The news reporter's last name is spelled Wang but he pronounces it Wong.....what up with that??

3. How in the hell do you sleep through a cannon ball flying through you house...."they woke up due to the drywall dust settling" WTF??

 

[AlterEgo99 5,000+ posts]

It flew 700 yds...

I have a few questions...

1. Why is there a residential neighborhood 700yds from a BOMBING range??

2. The news reporter's last name is spelled Wang but he pronounces it Wong.....what up with that??

3. How in the hell do you sleep through a cannon ball flying through you house...."they woke up due to the drywall dust settling" WTF??

Inquiring minds....

Anyways, I can't wait for them to broadcast that episode...LULZ! //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

 

[AlterEgo99 5,000+ posts]

no better time to post kari

One of the main reasons I watch the show...the only turn off is that she is an artsy fartsy fucking moonbat. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/crap.gif.7f4dd41e3e9b23fbd170a1ee6f65cecc.gif

 

[slammedincouch 10+ year member]

The things some shows will do for ratings...

 

[slammedincouch 10+ year member]

Housebusters

 

[thevic24 5,000+ posts]

Housebusters

This!!