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.
Hmmmmm hmmmmm hmmmmm. A “reality television” show. I wonder what show that could be. Actually, I don’t wonder: I took a guess as soon as I saw the headline. Anyone want to play along? I’ll put this behind a jump…
The cannonball was fired as part of an experiment for the Discovery Channel show MythBusters.
More:
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.
Kind of interesting that the bomb range is that close to houses, but maybe this is one of those cases where the neighborhood just grew around the range.
“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.”
I wonder exactly what myth they were trying to bust.
Edited to add: Better article from the HouChron.
Reached Tuesday evening, Savage said, “I can’t talk right now,” before hanging up.
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