# Mythbusters AKA homebusters **URL:** \ **Category:** Shift518 Off Topic\ **Created:** [December 8, 2011, 1:41pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mythbusters-aka-homebusters/261685 "2011-12-08T13:41:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Vovchandr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/vovchandr/32/6275_2.png) [@Vovchandr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Vovchandr)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 1:41pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mythbusters-aka-homebusters/261685/1 "2011-12-08T13:41:33Z")
[http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/07/BA1D1M99V5.DTL](http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/12/07/BA1D1M99V5.DTL) > One of the zany experiments staged by the “Mythbusters” television show nearly turned into a suburban tragedy Tuesday afternoon in Dublin 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. Epic. ---
**Author:** ![Skidplate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skidplate](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Skidplate)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 1:44pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mythbusters-aka-homebusters/261685/2 "2011-12-08T13:44:25Z")
damn…that’s awesome. even better that noone got hurt. ---
**Author:** ![Cossey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Cossey](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Cossey)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 1:58pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mythbusters-aka-homebusters/261685/3 "2011-12-08T13:58:28Z")
LOL. That’d be awesome to see, even in a movie. ---
**Author:** ![ninety1two40](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ninety1two40/32/6332_2.png) [@ninety1two40](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ninety1two40)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 2:26pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mythbusters-aka-homebusters/261685/4 "2011-12-08T14:26:26Z")
wow haha ---
**Author:** ![Bryan90GL-X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Bryan90GL-X](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bryan90GL-X)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 2:29pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mythbusters-aka-homebusters/261685/5 "2011-12-08T14:29:32Z")
HAHA Projectile trajectory c/o Rube fricken Goldberg! ---
**Author:** ![ReDevil](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/redevil/32/6385_2.png) [@ReDevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ReDevil)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 2:37pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mythbusters-aka-homebusters/261685/6 "2011-12-08T14:37:28Z")
![http://imgs.sfgate.com/c/pictures/2011/12/07/ba-cannonball08_0504696079.jpg](http://imgs.sfgate.com/c/pictures/2011/12/07/ba-cannonball08_0504696079.jpg) **MYTH PLAUSIBLE!** :rofl ---
**Author:** ![Boxersix](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/boxersix/32/6327_2.png) [@Boxersix](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Boxersix)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2011, 10:49pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mythbusters-aka-homebusters/261685/7 "2011-12-08T22:49:45Z")
Why on earth they were shooting something like this that close to a residential area is beyond me. I love the show, but damn they are fucking idiots sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![Wayne64SS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/wayne64ss/32/6365_2.png) [@Wayne64SS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Wayne64SS)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2011, 4:47am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mythbusters-aka-homebusters/261685/8 "2011-12-09T04:47:33Z")
Yessssssssssssss they better televise that whole shit. ---
**Author:** ![Sketchy](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/sketchy/32/6378_2.png) [@Sketchy](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Sketchy)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2011, 4:54am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mythbusters-aka-homebusters/261685/9 "2011-12-09T04:54:31Z")
> [@W2H(want to have): Scrap](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/w2h-want-to-have-scrap/46974/27): > > Why on earth they were shooting something like this that close to a residential area is beyond me. I love the show, but damn they are fucking idiots sometimes. They were at a bomb range. ---
**Author:** ![pitman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4da419/32.png) [@pitman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/pitman)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2011, 6:44am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mythbusters-aka-homebusters/261685/10 "2011-12-09T06:44:54Z")
the question is…theres a bomb range that close to a neighborhood ---
**Author:** ![Vovchandr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/vovchandr/32/6275_2.png) [@Vovchandr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Vovchandr)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2011, 1:34pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mythbusters-aka-homebusters/261685/11 "2011-12-09T13:34:38Z")
> [@pitman"](#): > > the question is…theres a bomb range that close to a neighborhood I’m sure it was there before the neighborhood. The way California is packed I’m surprised they didn’t build over the range or the fact that they still have room for one. ---
**Author:** ![Boxersix](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/boxersix/32/6327_2.png) [@Boxersix](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Boxersix)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2011, 3:26pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mythbusters-aka-homebusters/261685/12 "2011-12-09T15:26:10Z")
> [@W2H(want to have): Scrap](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/w2h-want-to-have-scrap/46974/28): > > They were at a bomb range. Should have been shooting in the rock quarry where the blow the vehicles up(like the cement mixer). I remember they had an episode with a wood cannon, and they were shooting it on what appeared to be an abandoned runway. In the background…skyscrapers. lolz ---
**Author:** ![Ilya](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ilya/32/6404_2.png) [@Ilya](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Ilya)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2011, 5:49pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mythbusters-aka-homebusters/261685/13 "2011-12-09T17:49:22Z")
Heard about this on the radio. Awesome. ---
**Author:** ![HudsonFalcon](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/hudsonfalcon/32/6460_2.png) [@HudsonFalcon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/HudsonFalcon)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2011, 6:46pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/mythbusters-aka-homebusters/261685/14 "2011-12-09T18:46:17Z")
Mortars work better in neighborhoods.