Honey, Mythbusters is at the door.

[bivenator]

I am guessing this will be left on the cutting room floor.

TV Stunt Goes Awry, Sends Cannonball Rocketing Through Homes « CBS Los Angeles


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DUBLIN, Calif. (CBS) — A cast iron cannonball rocketed through two homes and landed inside a minivan Tuesday when a “Mythbusters” TV experiment went wrong.

Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage are hosts of the scientific experimentation show, which airs on The Discovery Channel. The pair was reportedly trying to figure out how fast a cannonball would travel, when it misfired and shot hundreds of feet in the air.

“This cannonball was supposed to go through several barrels of water and through a cinder block, and then ultimately into the side of the hill,” said J.D. Nelson of the Alameda County Sheriff’s Department.

Instead the cannonball flew over the foothills surrounding Camp Parks Military Firing Reservation, before spiraling back toward Dublin like a cruise missile.

It flew straight though the front door of a home on Cassata Place, and bounced around like a pinball, flying up to the second floor before blasting through a back bedroom wall.



The wayward cannonball then blasted across a busy road and through a second home some 50 yards away, demolishing roof tiles.

The homeowner’s mother was frightened.

“”It was a very loud boom; she thought a tree fell, maybe a meteor,” said Ming Jiang. “It wasn’t clear that it was a cannonball landing on the roof.”

The out of control cannonball finally came to a stop inside Jasper Gill’s minivan.

“It hit the dash, through the passenger window,” said Gill, who had gotten out of the vehicle just 10 minutes before the ball struck. “I’m lucky I’m alive.”

Incredibly, no one was injured in the mishap.

Officials said Mythbusters had been using the firing reservation for the last eight years for similar experiments, but none had gone awry.

[svandamme]

So how fast was it?

[slakjaw]

so how fast was it?

fast!

[M.D. Holloway]

could have been avoided if it was made of duct tape

[stomachmonkey]

Oops.

[widgeon13]

Wonder how far it traveled? The lawyers are going to have fun with this, it might make Judge Judy.

[svandamme]

Originally Posted by slakjaw

fast!

i know

but how fast?

[masraum]

I'm guessing their insurance just went up.

If I was Jasper Gill, I'd want to keep the cannonball.

[Spede]

I'm sure the "network" will settle this and hush it quickly.

I wonder how much these girls got:
http://www.reviewjournal.com/****_home/2005/Apr-21-Thu-2005/news/26341046.html

[GH85Carrera]

An amazing whoops

[island911]

Living down range of a Military Firing Reservation, ... sooner or later...

[red-beard]

Originally Posted by Spede

I'm sure the "network" will settle this and hush it quickly.

I wonder how much these girls got:
http://www.reviewjournal.com/****_home/2005/Apr-21-Thu-2005/news/26341046.html

Not quick enough

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by masraum

I'm guessing their insurance just went up.

Along with their ratings.

[Steve Carlton]

Local news said it was going 1,000 ft/sec when it hit the first house.

[Capt. Crunch]

What kind of settlement money are we talking about?

[pwd72s]

.......busted!.........

[tctnd]

Don't try this at home, we're professionals.

[pwd72s]

Originally Posted by tctnd

don't try this at home, we're professionals.

lol!

[daepp]

Let's get on to the really important questions, was the red head there?

[dhoward]

“It wasn’t clear that it was a cannonball landing on the roof.”

Really?