This is the most magical cannonball ever. Doing one of their experiments with a homemade cannon things went horribly wrong. Instead of harmlessly hitting their targets and laying to rest in their safe zone, it careened off a hill and shot into a nearby neighborhood.
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. The ball was travelling upwards of 1,000 meters per second.
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 Toyota Sienna minivan in a driveway on Springvale Drive.
Incredibly nobody was hurt, but Mythbusters has halted production in the wake of the accident. No swarovski beads for these guys.
Wednesday, December 07, 2011
Tuesday, December 06, 2011
No Such Thing as Bad Advertising
AT least according to the folks that make Words With FRiends, an app for the various smart phones and iPods we all play.
After Alec Baldwin threw a childlike fit when being asked to turn off his phone in the middle of a game when his flight was taking off Words With Friends took his side it appears. Anyone that has ever flown knows that you are asked to turn this crap off at take off and can turn it back on when in the air. OF course none of us really thinks it matters, and half the people I see have them on before the wheels even leave the ground. Still...we make an effort to not annoy the hell out of everyone on the plane by making a scene about it right?
So apprently while riding with the common folks like people working Kitchen Management Jobs, Baldwin refused and Words With Friends took advantage by throwing out a tip of the ca to Baldwin here. Personally, I think it is silly they would condone it, but we all know how people will flock to it now. Morons gun moron.
After Alec Baldwin threw a childlike fit when being asked to turn off his phone in the middle of a game when his flight was taking off Words With Friends took his side it appears. Anyone that has ever flown knows that you are asked to turn this crap off at take off and can turn it back on when in the air. OF course none of us really thinks it matters, and half the people I see have them on before the wheels even leave the ground. Still...we make an effort to not annoy the hell out of everyone on the plane by making a scene about it right?
So apprently while riding with the common folks like people working Kitchen Management Jobs, Baldwin refused and Words With Friends took advantage by throwing out a tip of the ca to Baldwin here. Personally, I think it is silly they would condone it, but we all know how people will flock to it now. Morons gun moron.
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