Mythbusters -- Well, they did Bust Something!

[Twisted_Metal]

That is one helluva cannon!!!

What myth were they busting?

 

[Knuckle Dragger]

Lol, It doesn't actually say which country Dublin is in - in the article. I was picturing a bunch of Irish people having a cannonball going through their homes. And talking like Mad Leprechans. Lol.

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.

That is one helluva cannon!!!

What myth were they busting?

Jammie can't hit the broad side of a barn--Confirmed.

 

[John Wright]

What myth were they busting?

That a homemade cannon ball could travel over 700 yards and still have enough momentum to cause damage to houses and cars?

 

[Twisted_Metal]

Who, besides me, wants to see the video of this screwup?

 

[3504SPD]

I do. Think they will show it?

 

[John Wright]

Who, besides me, wants to see the video of this screwup?

Oh...Oh....<raises hand>.....Me!

 

[ColdBastrd]

skipped off a hillside and flew some 700 yards east, right into the Tassajara Creek neighborhood

Are people really that stupid to build and buy houses 700 yards from a bomb range???? Myth confirmed!

 

[dirtmod08]

That means nothing to me, I live in a corn field in Illinois.

 

[warped]

Who, besides me, wants to see the video of this screwup?

Methinks the video will show the cannon firing, the target untouched and a voice in the background -- "Ooooops", followed by a shouted "turn that #%&&#!## camera off!"

 

[Jon N.]

They should have known better than to buy a Toyota Sienna minivan anyway. They make gooder targets than drivers.