U.S. woman killed by cannonball fired by husband Authorities in California say a 33-year-old San Diego County woman has been killed by a cannonball fired by her husband and another man.Commentsview comments in forum Page 1 You need to be a member of CKA and be logged into the site, to comment on news. |
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And I thought the mythbusters got it wrong !
No, mythbusters would have fired the cannon with a lot of consideration for safety how this not too intelligent individual would have have accidentally fired a cannon is beyond me as I'm sure the police will be discussing with him at length.
And I thought the mythbusters got it wrong !
No, mythbusters would have fired the cannon with a lot of consideration for safety how this not too intelligent individual would have have accidentally fired a cannon is beyond me as I'm sure the police will be discussing with him at length.
DD is referring to the incident the Mythbusters had in December when a cannonball went through a home.
And I thought the mythbusters got it wrong !
No, mythbusters would have fired the cannon with a lot of consideration for safety how this not too intelligent individual would have have accidentally fired a cannon is beyond me as I'm sure the police will be discussing with him at length.
DD is referring to the incident the Mythbusters had in December when a cannonball went through a home.
Usually they are very careful, but it does sound interesting.
And I thought the mythbusters got it wrong !
No, mythbusters would have fired the cannon with a lot of consideration for safety how this not too intelligent individual would have have accidentally fired a cannon is beyond me as I'm sure the police will be discussing with him at length.
DD was right.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.c ... 1M99V5.DTL
The cantaloupe-sized cannonball missed the water, tore through a cinder-block wall, skipped off a hillside and flew some 700 yards east, right into the Tassajara Creek neighborhood, where children were returning home from school at 4:15 p.m., authorities said.
There, the 6-inch projectile bounced in front of a home on quiet Cassata Place, ripped through the front door, raced up the stairs and blasted through a bedroom, where a man, woman and child slept through it all - only awakening because of plaster dust.
The ball wasn't done bouncing.
It exited the house, leaving a perfectly round hole in the stucco, crossed six-lane Tassajara Road, took out several tiles from the roof of a home on Bellevue Circle and finally slammed into the Gill family's beige Toyota Sienna minivan in a driveway on Springvale Drive.
That's where Jasbir Gill, 42, who had pulled up 10 minutes earlier with his 13-year-old son, Manvir, found the ball on the floorboards, with glass everywhere and an obliterated dashboard.
"It's shocking - anything could have happened," Gill said after the van had been taken away as evidence, along with the cannonball.
"Crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy," said Sgt. J.D. Nelson, a spokesman for the Alameda County Sheriff's Department. "You wouldn't think it was possible."
He said the television crew was incredibly unlucky that the cannonball flew through Dublin, but "tremendously lucky that it didn't seriously injure or kill somebody."
Nelson said "Mythbusters," a show on the Discovery Channel, had used the bomb disposal range without incident while shooting portions of more than 50 episodes over the past seven or eight years. The show does not pay a set fee but has donated to the department and given it exposure.
One of the terms of the deal, Nelson said, was that the show take out insurance in case of a mishap.
The show is based in San Francisco. Hosts Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman use science experiments to confirm or debunk rumors or myths. Reached Tuesday evening, Savage said, "I can't talk right now," before hanging up.
This isn't the first time projectiles in the area have hit homes. In 2007, a stray .223-caliber bullet, apparently fired during a training exercise at Camp Parks Army base in Dublin, shattered the bedroom window of a San Ramon home.
The lesson here is, if the back end of a cannon is smoking.........don't run to the front of it.
A kid back in junior high used a five-foot length of aluminum tube mounted to a homemade tripod as a muzzle-loading cannon. He shot out some windows on the school one night with the cannon and some tennis balls. He was a hero for about five minutes among the kids. Then they found out he did it, his parents freaked out after the expulsion, and we never saw him again.
Back in my high school days I got a 4' length of high pressure 2.5" pipe that was threaded on one end. I put a cap on the one end and then would drop a lit M-80 down the pipe before slamming a tennis ball into it. It was good for shooting the tennis ball high enough into the air that it could bounce over a house when it landed. It would also burn one half of the ball and that was kind of neat!
Think my dad binned it when he found out how it worked.