Mythbusters Misfire Fires A Cannonball Through Local Homes

**Malsua** · December 7th, 2011, 15:31

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.cb...-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.

**Toad** · December 7th, 2011, 15:59

I'll give serious Kudo's to Mythbusters if they actually air that piece as proof positive "why you don't do this at home".

**Ryan Ruck** · December 7th, 2011, 16:06

Oops! Will be interesting to see that episode.

I guess I'll use this as an opportunity to post some Mythbusters video captures of Kari Byron...

(They're a little large in size but you'll find they're worth the wait.

)

http://www.transasianaxis.com/content/kari_lube_reg.gif
http://www.transasianaxis.com/conten..._lube_slow.gif

http://www.transasianaxis.com/content/kari_stretch.gif
http://www.transasianaxis.com/content/kari_stretch1.gif
http://www.transasianaxis.com/content/kari_stretch2.gif

Different speeds for each pic because everything is better in slow motion!

**Toad** · December 7th, 2011, 16:10

Hot Science chicks always rock.

**Malsua** · December 7th, 2011, 16:14

LOL @ greasing the pole.

**Ryan Ruck** · December 7th, 2011, 16:39

Ok, I didn't come up with this one but saw it posted somewhere else...

**Malsua** · December 7th, 2011, 16:58

That one is funny too.

Ryan, I hope you don't get mad at me but I swiped your image, link and all. I had to share it with my gun buddies. I figured since your file was 5mb, you must be at a pay level so bandwidth doesn't matter. I tried uploading it to my site but there must be some issue today.