And you thought the bomb range was safe...

[BOfH]

http://www.networkworld.com/communit...th-destruction

One of the zany experiments staged by the "Mythbusters" television show nearly turned into a suburban tragedy Tuesday afternoon in Dublin (Calif.) 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.

[Red Flag 1]

Wonder if we'll actually see this in one of their broadcasts ? I'll bet the show rating would go up if aired.

I expect the show's insurance premium will go up just a tad .

What a great day, the Mythbusters and Alec Baldwin both on the same day . Don't ya just love show biz?

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[Badger52]

"FORRRRRRRRRRRRRRE!!!"

("Yeah, yeah, you were right; shoulda been a 7-iron...")

[mark46th]

Kinetic Energy is a bitch.

[Sohei]

I like the way they preface their shows with the caveat that they are "professionals" and recommend that no one conducts any of their "tests" at home. I would hate to see what could/would of happened if they weren't professional.