Video at link. The cannonball was about the size of a softball. It bounced, went through one house, crashed on the roof of another house and came down inside someone's minivan.

 

It was a very energetic little cannonball!

 

 

 

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http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2011/12/06/tv-experiment-goes-awry-sends-cannonball-rocketing-through-homes/

 

 

TV Stunt Goes Awry, Sends Cannonball Rocketing Through Homes

 

 

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.

did they BUST the myth??

when will this episode air?

Not only busting myths, but busting doors, walls, roofs, and cars!

so.. is this the "end" of that show?

I wonder if kari byron lit the charge.. I guess the centuryman forgot to make sure the population was not in harms way..

 

If it is not the end of the show I bet it will become a lot less fun due to restrictions that will be put on them.

I read this ealier this morning on MS-NBC. Here's a picture of the actual damage.

 

 

Accidents happen.... however, they may no longer be able to use the Alameda bomb range.....

I wonder if kari byron lit the charge..

 

Dunno, but she sure is good at greasing a pole.

Oh yeah!!!!!

I want my 5 minutes back, I was hoping for a kaboom.

I wonder if kari byron lit the charge.. I guess the centuryman forgot to make sure the population was not in harms way..

 

In other news, Frank Lautenberg and Carolyn McCarthy are introducing a bill to close the cannonball loophole. "Someone has to protect the children, this is just common sense regulation" they screeched.

Accidents happen.... however, they may no longer be able to use the Alameda bomb range.....

 

Yes, my old Army Reserve artillery unit did that once at Fort Indian Town Gap and scary as it was (seven 105mm HE rounds into some woods off the side of a road) they just refused to let them back on the range. You got one "strike."

wonder what kind of insurance policy they carry..

 

I could just picture them knocking on the door... "so.. we umm.. lost this little ball.. maybe you have seen it?"

Dunno, but she sure is good at greasing a pole.