For the MythBuster fans

[82Collectors]

Wait!! Don't light it yet!

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainmen...man-visit-california-home-damaged/?test=faces

Andy

 

[southkogs]

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Saw that yesterday - felt bad for the homeowner, and glad no one was hurt - - - laughed anyway

Is Mythbusters produced by the same people who produce Home Makeovers?

 

[angus63]

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MissedBusters

 

[RogersJetboat454]

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Anyone taking odds on it ever being aired on the show?

According to the report they promised the footage will never be screened.

Honestly I think that is a mistake. They should put a show together with this and any other mis-haps that happen to occur as a reality check to anybody who wants to try some of the stuff they do. They may be professionals, but as shown by this incident some of their experiments turn south, and go beyond what they considered for risks.

 

[12vMan]

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They definitely had luck on their side. That thing had some velocity to penetrate a house clean through and then some even after after being deflected

 

[rbh]

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All shows should have a "BLOOPER" episode, I bet theirs would be fantastic!!

 

[12vMan]

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All shows should have a "BLOOPER" episode, I bet theirs would be fantastic!!

Every episode is a blooper episode

 

[fishrdan]

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I have to ask, who in their right mind would zone property 1000' away from a bomb range as residential, or any type of construction for that matter? Or, if the houses were there first, who would build a bomb range 1000' away from houses?.....

Hmmm, lucky would be it never having happened. ;-)

It's happened before, just not with a cannonball. In one or their episodes they accidentally sent an unmanned car flying over a dirt berm... The bewildered look on their faces as they asked each other if anything was on the other side of the berm was priceless. Luckily (I guess), there wasn't anything over the berm besides a tree and some bushes.

 

[oops!]

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lol..... i lovet.......except for this......."The cannonball exited Shetty's house through an upstairs bedroom where his wife and infant son were sleeping."

mannnn that is close.....too close.

and it was a homemade cannon too...... a mythbusters special....... well that one worked

 

[LippCJ7]

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I have to ask, who in their right mind would zone property 1000' away from a bomb range as residential

Actually the houses were 1000 yards away(3000 feet), even so in my opinion I still question that being a safe distance CLEARLY!!

 

[fishrdan]

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Actually the houses were 1000 yards away

Whoops :redface: my mistake there, 1000 yards it is. A bit over 1/2 mile is still too close for my comfort...

 

[Bob_VT]

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Okay, many of you know I do Special Effects and the Mythbusters are seriously conservative ................ I am not surprised by the incident and it happens to all of us.

Explosives are not as predictable as you think......... someday I will write up the incident I had while on a movie set blowing a telephone apart.

No one was hurt........ insurance will cover it.......... and more safety standards will be in effect in the future.

 

[LippCJ7]

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One of my friends is in charge of a SWAT team here in Colorado, he had one of his guys rig a diversion so that the Team could make entry into a house(Suicide by cop locked himself in his home threatening to shoot blah blah blah)


Weeeeeeeeeeeeell the tech accidentally removed the two car garage door from the frame and sent most of it over the two cars in the garage and into the laundry/mud room attached to the Garage with the explosives he used, my buddy asked the tech about it......

His Reply "Whoopsy"

 

[Cofe]

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Yea those guys are supposed to be professionals, but they need to research and study the properties of the materials they are working with.
For example::: Remember when they made the steam cannon? The welding job they did was terrible, and the values of steam pressure were not used, and they started out without a safety pressure valve. It is a wonder that cannon didn't self destruct and take everyone with it.

Professional means they make money doing what they do. Not that they really know what they are doing.

 

[oops!]

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Okay, many of you know I do Special Effects and the Mythbusters are seriously conservative ................ I am not surprised by the incident and it happens to all of us.

Explosives are not as predictable as you think......... someday I will write up the incident I had while on a movie set blowing a telephone apart.

my family owns A&A special effects in california. they have had many instances where things have gone terribly wrong.....explosions are not always predictable. even though it is a science.....and math will help you know the outcome.......variables still do exist.

 

[Bob_VT]

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Found this!!

 

[CheapboatKev]

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I reject your reality and substitute my own.


Thus, it never happened..lol

I still love those buffoons!

 

[mommicked]

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I've thought these guys were going to hurt or kill each other several times. Some of the tests or experiments they do are flawed by design, against what they are trying to recreate. I think they're both professional idiots, and sometimes they joke about that!