MythBusters Cannonball Experiment Gone Wrong... Hits Houses

[Chino]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Jj-CErr0VOY

 

I'm glad no one was hurt. I would love to see footage of this leak!

[lonestar]

Holy crap, that's like fifteen minutes from where I live.  I didn't know they filmed that shit out here.  That's a really populated area, I'm suprised they even do that out there.

[Nekov]

WTF??!! That's insane!

[JayOctavarium]

lol


Wang

[MykeHavoc]

Wow. That's the end of that show. Hello million dollar lawsuits.

[Zook]

That wasn't in the script!

[lonestar]

Wow. That's the end of that show. Hello million dollar lawsuits.

Easily, that is not a cheap area to live by a long shot.

[Chino]

Wow. That's the end of that show. Hello million dollar lawsuits.

I really hope not. I don't see how anyone affected will get a whole lot more than the cost to repair their homes. I'm sure Discovery has already cut some checks.

[lordxizor]

Wow. That's the end of that show. Hello million dollar lawsuits.

I really hope not. I don't see how anyone affected will get a whole lot more than the cost to repair their homes. I'm sure Discovery has already cut some checks.

A person can sue for as much as they want but it's up to the judge or jury to decide what they actually get, and likely this will be quickly settled. The cost of repairs and a little extra for their trouble seems pretty reasonable to me.

[MetalJunkie]

They really dropped the ball on that one.

[lonestar]

They really dropped the ball on that one.

Simple, yet effective.

[Dark Castle]

Wow. That's the end of that show. Hello million dollar lawsuits.

I really hope not. I don't see how anyone affected will get a whole lot more than the cost to repair their homes. I'm sure Discovery has already cut some checks.

This, it's one of my favorite shows, and shit happens.

[yorost]

Wow. That's the end of that show. Hello million dollar lawsuits.

I really hope not. I don't see how anyone affected will get a whole lot more than the cost to repair their homes. I'm sure Discovery has already cut some checks.

A person can sue for as much as they want but it's up to the judge or jury to decide what they actually get, and likely this will be quickly settled. The cost of repairs and a little extra for their trouble seems pretty reasonable to me.

I don't know much about law, but they fired a lethal weapon at a community.  A lawsuit would be about some kind of reckless endangerment, not property damage, right?  You fire a gun in the air and you can be in criminal trouble.

[MetalJunkie]

I guarantee Discovery has better lawyers. They were testing at a police firing range and they set up multiple safety measures. Just because something still managed to go awry doesn't mean their method was reckless or negligent.

[gmillerdrake]

Now they can test how litigious our nation has become

[yorost]

I guarantee Discovery has better lawyers. They were testing at a police firing range and they set up multiple safety measures. Just because something still managed to go awry doesn't mean their method was reckless or negligent.

I didn't say they were.  I asked if that's what any lawsuit or charge would be about.

[blackngold29]

Glad nobody was hurt, that's so insane. Hopefully the people are fans of the show, would be a real shame if one bad cannonball in a decade ends one of the best shows on TV.


Also glad that Grant was already on the scene to report for the news.

[black_biff_stadler]

Glad nobody was hurt, that's so insane. Hopefully the people are fans of the show, would be a real shame if one bad cannonball in a decade ends one of the best shows on TV.


Also glad that Grant was already on the scene to report for the news.

Touché. Also, I'm pretty sure I've found Asian Waldo.

[LieLowTheWantedMan]

I highly doubt this would end the show.

[bosk1]

I don't know much about law, but they fired a lethal weapon at a community.  A lawsuit would be about some kind of reckless endangerment, not property damage, right?  You fire a gun in the air and you can be in criminal trouble.

Doesn't matter because there is no harm or damage beyond the property damage.  Assuming the studio (or, more likely, its insurance carrier) pays for the property damage, there's nothing to sue for civilly, and there's nothing about what they did that was criminal.


EDIT:  And more on topic, since no one was hurt, I can say this:  That is hilarious! 

[blackngold29]

EDIT:  And more on topic, since no one was hurt, I can say this:  That is hilarious! 

It really is so crazy that you have to laugh about it. I mean, what other physical object goes through the wall of your house and you don't hear it?

[rumborak]

Not the first time they had problems with the "community". Apparently during one explosion they totally underestimated the resulting blast, with the effect that the neighboring town had their windows blown out.

rumborak

[Chino]

Not the first time they had problems with the "community". Apparently during one explosion they totally underestimated the resulting blast, with the effect that the neighboring town had their windows blown out.

rumborak

Yeah, they got banned from that county.

EDIT:  And more on topic, since no one was hurt, I can say this:  That is hilarious! 

It really is so crazy that you have to laugh about it. I mean, what other physical object goes through the wall of your house and you don't hear it?

I want to know why they were both asleep in the middle of the day.

[MykeHavoc]

Shooting a cannon ball threw my house and endangering my families lives would enrage me. I'd get a media blitz, then sue for millions. They at the very least have to move to a different, more desolate area. But ultimately, if this happens, you have to question the potential harm that could happen in the future. Didn't someone from the show die a year ago or so?

[fivestring]

*through*

[blackngold29]

Didn't someone from the show die a year ago or so?

A guy who was a guest on the show fell off a house in a completely unrelated incident.

[Sigz]

Eh, shit happens. It's not like they were being negligent or anything.

Didn't someone from the show die a year ago or so?

Yeah, but it had nothing to do with the show.

[Chino]

Shooting a cannon ball threw my house and endangering my families lives would enrage me. I'd get a media blitz, then sue for millions. They at the very least have to move to a different, more desolate area. But ultimately, if this happens, you have to question the potential harm that could happen in the future. Didn't someone from the show die a year ago or so?

Why do you deserve millions?

[orcus116]

Shooting a cannon ball threw my house and endangering my families lives would enrage me. I'd get a media blitz, then sue for millions.

Except it was a complete accident. You're acting like they were being malicious.

[MykeHavoc]

*through*

Take it as a pun.

Didn't someone from the show die a year ago or so?

A guy who was a guest on the show fell off a house in a completely unrelated incident.

Fair enough. Couldn't remember the details.

[MykeHavoc]

Shooting a cannon ball threw my house and endangering my families lives would enrage me. I'd get a media blitz, then sue for millions. They at the very least have to move to a different, more desolate area. But ultimately, if this happens, you have to question the potential harm that could happen in the future. Didn't someone from the show die a year ago or so?

Why do you deserve millions?

We'll see how you react if the day were to come. Now imagine it killed one of your kids.

Shooting a cannon ball threw my house and endangering my families lives would enrage me. I'd get a media blitz, then sue for millions.

Except it was a complete accident. You're acting like they were being malicious.

Obviously I know that wasn't there intent. But now that the possibility of a mistake that bad is capable of happening, it's damn scary to think of the damage that COULD be done. I'm sure they take measures of precaution, but as it clearly has been shown, their efforts are not enough.

[Sigz]

Would you sue someone for millions if they drove their car into your house and injured no one?

[Chino]

Shooting a cannon ball threw my house and endangering my families lives would enrage me. I'd get a media blitz, then sue for millions. They at the very least have to move to a different, more desolate area. But ultimately, if this happens, you have to question the potential harm that could happen in the future. Didn't someone from the show die a year ago or so?

Why do you deserve millions?

We'll see how you react if the day were to come. Now imagine it killed one of your kids.

But no one got hurt or killed.... You can't get crazy amounts of cash on the basis of 'what if'. If a drunk driver demolished my car parked on the side of the road... I'd expect compensation for my car, not millions because there was the possibility that I could have been sitting in it at the time.

[black_biff_stadler]

Shooting a cannon ball threw my house and endangering my families lives would enrage me. I'd get a media blitz, then sue for millions. They at the very least have to move to a different, more desolate area. But ultimately, if this happens, you have to question the potential harm that could happen in the future. Didn't someone from the show die a year ago or so?

Why do you deserve millions?

We'll see how you react if the day were to come. Now imagine it killed one of your kids.

Shooting a cannon ball threw my house and endangering my families lives would enrage me. I'd get a media blitz, then sue for millions.

Except it was a complete accident. You're acting like they were being malicious.

Obviously I know that wasn't there intent. But now that the possibility of a mistake that bad is capable of happening, it's damn scary to think of the damage that COULD be done. I'm sure they take measures of precaution, but as it clearly has been shown, their efforts are not enough.

I agree wholeheartedly with the redded part. If the Mythbusters folks didn't have the feather in their cap of being a long-running, popular TV show, this (at least) second incident of needlessly endangering residential communities merely for the sake of making an entertainment-based TV show would've probably been met with swift and substantial consequences like arrests, etc. I like the show and have watched it numerous times but for how experienced and intelligent they describe Adam and Jamie as being during the opening segment of each show, it really looks bad when you have something like this happen (and even a tad worse considering the prior windows-blowing-out incident.)

It's ridiculous that some in this thread are acting like it's no big deal merely because no one got hurt and overlooking the fact that an airborne 10"-diameter cannonball shot with enough force to travel nearly a half-mile through the air careened through a densely-populated suburb where it easily could've killed/maimed dozens when you consider its initial impact did little to slow it down since it had enough momentum to make its way through someone's bedroom, bounce off the pavement and still (being that heavy of a projectile) make it back up to a rooftop and finally stop when hitting a minivan.

[orcus116]

Eh, some things you just can't plan for. There are tons of dangerous things that surround us every day. I'm still mighty indifferent considering it wasn't done maliciously.