Mythbusters.... - BUSTED

[Maverick]

Keep in mind that Camp Parks (now a Guard and Reserve training area, primarily classroom style training) is a very very small military reservation that has had urban developments grow up around it. From having been there it is entirely plausible that a 2000+ meter range weapon could be fired in almost any direction from the range areas and land off reservation in either housing or the big jail complex.

Look the place up on google earth or google maps and see the sat pix.

[Shuffler]

Keep in mind that Camp Parks (now a Guard and Reserve training area, primarily classroom style training) is a very very small military reservation that has had urban developments grow up around it. From having been there it is entirely plausible that a 2000+ meter range weapon could be fired in almost any direction from the range areas and land off reservation in either housing or the big jail complex.

Look the place up on google earth or google maps and see the sat pix.

All ranges have been shut down for some time. Quite awhile back a bullet lodged into a house. All ranges were shut down even though they never found where the bullet came from.

I do laugh at the folks who build a home next to ranges or airports then complain about noise.

[ebfd11]

Here is a follow up story and detailed report.. apparently it was Kari, Tori and Brent not Adam and Jamie, who set the "Ball" rolling.

http://www.cinemablend.com/television/Mythbusters-Apologize-Won-t-Air-Footage-Wayward-Cannonball-37634.html

LawnDart

Thank god no one was hurt.

[Shuffler]

Shetty said it sounds like a lawsuit brewing. 

[Wiley]

I hate the lawsuit mentality...

On a practical level though, it sounds to me like the berm's geometry was too shallow if a projectile can skip up and over it.  I know full well projectiles do really funny stuff sometimes, but it would seem to me a backstop that's shallow enough to launch a projectile like that isn't ideal to catch something that is both that large and spherical.

Wiley.

[Maverick]

I hate the lawsuit mentality...

On a practical level though, it sounds to me like the berm's geometry was too shallow if a projectile can skip up and over it.  I know full well projectiles do really funny stuff sometimes, but it would seem to me a backstop that's shallow enough to launch a projectile like that isn't ideal to catch something that is both that large and spherical.

Wiley.

If the barrel is elevated too high you can shoot a cannon over a mountain. Yes I know from real world experiance. Lots of "stuff" went beyond the range, installation and a few other arbitrary lines on a map. Nope I ain't gonna say more even if the statute of limitations is long gone.

[Wiley]

If the barrel is elevated too high you can shoot a cannon over a mountain.

Oh heckyeah, but the impression I've gotten from reading and the couple pics I've seen is it was elevated just a bit too much and skipped off the berm after striking it.  All I'm saying is, I wouldn't feel comfortable firing a cannon (heck, now that I think about it, even a rifle) at a gentle, sloping berm with a town behind it.  It should've been at or near vertical to effectively trap the projectile.

Hindsight and all, but it would seem to me that would be a reasonable precaution to take and someone should have noticed.

Ah well, the lawyers get another ivory backscratcher, the homeowner wins the personal damages and emotional suffering lottery, and nobody was hurt.  That's the main thing.

Wiley.

[Dichotomy]

'they need to pay for this. Not just the physical damage, but everything else.'

here we go...

[Meatwad]

"Discovery has placed Mythbusters on hold until a full investigation of the incident can be completed. "

Looks like all airings of it have dissapeared off the lineup here 

[DREDIOCK]

Here is a follow up story and detailed report.. apparently it was Kari, Tori and Brent not Adam and Jamie, who set the "Ball" rolling.

http://www.cinemablend.com/television/Mythbusters-Apologize-Won-t-Air-Footage-Wayward-Cannonball-37634.html

LawnDart

Thank god no one was hurt.

While Adam and Jamie dont particularly impress me either.
I Had a feeling it was the three children that were playing and did the screw up.

Though if I were one of the owners who suffered damage. I'd insist they air the footage

[Melvin]

Really?

3 pages and none of this...





Get it together.

[Jayhawk]

The safety berm launched the canon ball which traveled over 700 yards.

Shuff, I'm surprised you've heard of Mythbusters.

[Lusche]

Shuff, I'm surprised you've heard of Mythbusters.