'Mythbusters' stunt goes awry, cannonball hits Dublin home

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.

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• Mythbusters
• Discovery Channel
• Adam Savage
• and
• Jamie Hyneman
• Dublin

[kcid56]

8 years without a mishap, not bad, I know, not so good for the families, but I'm sure restitution will be made, and Jamie and Adam will have new safety restrictions placed upon them.

Back to work boys....

[sventop]

@kcid56 without a mishape?, Am I Missing An Eyebrow?

[MrJamhamm]

@sventop hahahahaha,but no he was saying 8 years w/o wishape on that test site

[brandtboy1]

@SayMoreTaimoor2 MEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[SayMoreTaimoor2]

Who went to watch this because of SNL?

[SayMoreTaimoor2]

Whi just went to this because of SNL?