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The case of the Mythbusters cannonball...
Oopsie..... I can't wait for this one to be aired 
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MythBusters stunt sends cannonball flying through Dublin home
DUBLIN, Calif. — A reality television stunt that went awry sent a cannonball careening into a residential Dublin neighborhood late Tuesday afternoon, punching holes through the front door and a wall of a home and smashing a minivan's window, but luckily leaving area residents unharmed.
The cannonball was fired as part of an experiement for the Discovery Channel show MythBusters.
The Alameda County Sheriff's Department confirmed that at around 4 p.m. a cannonball was "misfired" from the Alameda County bomb range at Camp Parks and struck a home blocks away on Cassata Place.
"This cannonball was supposed to pass through several barrels of water and a cinder block wall to slow its inertia," said J.D. Nelson of Alameda County Sheriff's Department. "When the shot was fired, it misfired. The cannon lifted."
The cannonball apparently hit something that caused it to shoot over the hillside that protects the neighborhood below.
The projectile bounced in front of the house on Cassata Place, through the front door and up through the second floor before it finally exited through the back [of a bedroom] wall. [where a husband, wife and child were napping]
Then it flew over Tassajara Road and ricocheted off the roof of another house before smashing through the window of a minivan where it came to rest.
"I kind of looked inside and seen a big old cannonball. And I had just got out of the van five minutes earlier," said Jasbar Gill, the owner of damaged van. "I'm glad my kids weren't inside the van. So lucky."
The sheriff's office spoke with the Discovery Channel which airs MythBusters.
"They're very sorry that this happened. And they have safety measures that are in place," said Nelson, who works as a consultant for the show, managing the tests run at the county bomb range. "They did have a misfire. And they have insurance for these kinds of things."
Remarkably, no one was hurt in the incident.
DUBLIN, Calif. — A reality television stunt that went awry sent a cannonball careening into a residential Dublin neighborhood late Tuesday afternoon, punching holes through the front door and a wall of a home and smashing a minivan's window, but luckily leaving area residents unharmed.
The cannonball was fired as part of an experiement for the Discovery Channel show MythBusters.
The Alameda County Sheriff's Department confirmed that at around 4 p.m. a cannonball was "misfired" from the Alameda County bomb range at Camp Parks and struck a home blocks away on Cassata Place.
"This cannonball was supposed to pass through several barrels of water and a cinder block wall to slow its inertia," said J.D. Nelson of Alameda County Sheriff's Department. "When the shot was fired, it misfired. The cannon lifted."
The cannonball apparently hit something that caused it to shoot over the hillside that protects the neighborhood below.
The projectile bounced in front of the house on Cassata Place, through the front door and up through the second floor before it finally exited through the back [of a bedroom] wall. [where a husband, wife and child were napping]
Then it flew over Tassajara Road and ricocheted off the roof of another house before smashing through the window of a minivan where it came to rest.
"I kind of looked inside and seen a big old cannonball. And I had just got out of the van five minutes earlier," said Jasbar Gill, the owner of damaged van. "I'm glad my kids weren't inside the van. So lucky."
The sheriff's office spoke with the Discovery Channel which airs MythBusters.
"They're very sorry that this happened. And they have safety measures that are in place," said Nelson, who works as a consultant for the show, managing the tests run at the county bomb range. "They did have a misfire. And they have insurance for these kinds of things."
Remarkably, no one was hurt in the incident.
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