DragonMaster 1,166 Posted December 8, 2011 Oh, and it travels further than I would think possible... Just how fast was this going? http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/06/BA1D1M99V5.DTL (12-07) 13:11 PST DUBLIN -- One of the zany experiments staged by the "Mythbusters" television show nearly turned into a suburban tragedy Tuesday afternoon in Dublin when the crew fired a homemade cannon toward huge containers of water at the Alameda County Sheriff's Department bomb disposal range. 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. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Friend 81 Posted December 8, 2011 (takes done notes on note pad) dont shoot cannonballs..... but ya that has to be the most insane thing to watch unfold.. i wonder if this will be in one of there episodes Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
_The Door To Light_ 1,507 Posted December 8, 2011 I saw this on Yahoo a while ago. "If it were me, I'd have the cannon ball be autographed and then brag to my friends how the Mythbusters blew a cannonball at my house" - Hillarious comment I found on the article Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kishira 2,854 Posted December 8, 2011 I hope that aires. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amon 4,279 Posted December 8, 2011 It would be an honor to have some of my possessions blown up by the Mythbusters. 4 Kinode, superbanana, Kaiso and 1 other reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DragonMaster 1,166 Posted December 8, 2011 I saw this on Yahoo a while ago. "If it were me, I'd have the cannon ball be autographed and then brag to my friends how the Mythbusters blew a cannonball at my house" - Hillarious comment I found on the article It would be an honor to have some of my possessions blown up by the Mythbusters. To both of these, yes. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kaiso 2,764 Posted December 10, 2011 I don't think I could be mad at them if that happened. Because like, I love Mythbusters... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vivi111 111 Posted December 10, 2011 OMG i saw this on sunrise. but i love the series. i have a few seasons on dvd and i watch it sometimes on tv Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Miku Hatsune 636 Posted December 11, 2011 I don't like Mythbusters, but I don't think it'd matter who really did it. If anyone fired a cannonball at my humble abode, I would be furious. Lol. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DarkmoonTenshi 22 Posted December 11, 2011 I heard about this during Current Event in my History class! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
animemylove 439 Posted December 13, 2011 you'd think they would test that somewhere people could get injured, they're usually smarter .. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amon 4,279 Posted December 14, 2011 I don't like Mythbusters, but I don't think it'd matter who really did it. If anyone fired a cannonball at my humble abode, I would be furious. Lol. The mythbusters do what they do in the name of SCIENCE AND LULZ. They should win the Nobel Prize just for that. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Miku Hatsune 636 Posted December 14, 2011 The mythbusters do what they do in the name of SCIENCE AND LULZ. They should win the Nobel Prize just for that. That fact does not make me like them any more than I did. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Loki 1,184 Posted December 14, 2011 It would be an honor to have some of my possessions blown up by the Mythbusters. "I had my kids head blown off by the the Mythbusters! "That would be an even greater honor. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
