I FEAR ALL WE HAVE DONE IS AWAKEN A SLEEPING FAMILY AND FILLED IT WITH A TERRIBLE RESOLVE: Yesterday, the crew from Mythbusters
fired a cannonball that ricocheted off a wall, through a house, out the back of that house and down the street, where it destroyed the dashboard of a minivan. Fortunately, no one was hurt.
Wow.
ReplyDeleteThat is crazy!
ReplyDeleteWhoopsie!
ReplyDeleteFaaaantastic -- another thing to add to the list of Random, Paralyzing Three A.M. Worries! I'm starting to get like Monk -- "Germs, needles, milk, death, snakes, mushrooms, heights, ERRANT CANNONBALLS ..."
ReplyDeleteIt's baffling to think that the Alameda County bomb range has been that close to a residential neighborhood all this time.
ReplyDelete<span>My brother used to live about a half a mile from the houses in question. It's entirely in-fill out there. For years, there was nothing out there but Alameda County sherriff's office/bomb and target range, a California National Guard facility, and a federal minimum security prison for women. It was empty grassland other than that until the late 1990s or so.</span>
ReplyDeleteWas the myth confirmed or busted?
ReplyDeleteI'm confused about what myth they were trying to bust?
ReplyDeletePerhaps whether coming to a nuisance is really a defense.
ReplyDelete"Does a cannonball flying through your home at 3 AM ACTUALLY scare the shit out of you? CONFIRMED."
ReplyDeleteBecca, merely "liking" that comment feels insufficient. LOVE.
ReplyDeleteBUSTED:
ReplyDeleteThere, 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.
I wish Admiral Yamamoto was alive just so he could appreciate that great headline.
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