2011-12-07, 10:09 PM
Been laughing my butt off over this one;
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment...e-1.988169
The fact it happened while supervised on the sheriff's own bomb disposal range is just hilarious.
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment...e-1.988169
Short of it Wrote: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.
The fact it happened while supervised on the sheriff's own bomb disposal range is just hilarious.
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