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DannyJ
United States5110 Posts
On December 08 2011 03:28 ThaZenith wrote: Honestly, makes no difference. Mythbusters is more than 2 people. It's usually always supervised by law enforcement anyway. Im sure no sort of egregious carelessness went on but just some freak accident. | ||
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RLTY
United States965 Posts
On December 08 2011 03:21 Marradron wrote: I still dont completely understand why this is the case. Why dont they just use bricks ? It's way stronger, less maintenance. Is it just cause it's cheaper and faster to build ? This is California. There are many earthquakes. That's why. | ||
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rd
United States2586 Posts
On December 08 2011 03:21 Marradron wrote: I still dont completely understand why this is the case. Why dont they just use bricks ? It's way stronger, less maintenance. Is it just cause it's cheaper and faster to build ? American houses weren't made to withstand impacts from cannons. | ||
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Pawsom
United States928 Posts
On December 08 2011 03:31 DannyJ wrote: It's usually always supervised by law enforcement anyway. Im sure no sort of egregious carelessness went on but just some freak accident. THEY SHOT A CANNONBALL INTO SOMEONES HOUSE. Even pointing a gun(or cannon) in a direction where the room behind your target is not cleared, is a huge lapse of judgement. One of the first things you learn in shooting is to look behind your target. I would be furious if this happened to me, but lets just hope mythbusters pays up fast. | ||
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Phant
United States737 Posts
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DannyJ
United States5110 Posts
On December 08 2011 03:33 Pawsom wrote: THEY SHOT A CANNONBALL INTO SOMEONES HOUSE. Even pointing a gun(or cannon) in a direction where the room behind your target is not cleared, is a huge lapse of judgement. One of the first things you learn in shooting is to look behind your target. I would be furious if this happened to me, but lets just hope mythbusters pays up fast. Yeah but that's not mythbusters fault. It's a police range, they're the ones who should be responsible for that. | ||
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Deadeight
United Kingdom1629 Posts
On December 08 2011 02:34 CrimsonLotus wrote: But this might really hurt the show, I hope it doesn't gen canceled, but maybe they got too confident over time and forgot to take some extra precautions. If anything this is just good press for them. More people will watch it as it will be thought of as more exciting. | ||
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couches
618 Posts
On December 08 2011 03:33 Pawsom wrote: THEY SHOT A CANNONBALL INTO SOMEONES HOUSE. Even pointing a gun(or cannon) in a direction where the room behind your target is not cleared, is a huge lapse of judgement. One of the first things you learn in shooting is to look behind your target. I would be furious if this happened to me, but lets just hope mythbusters pays up fast. Then maybe you should have been present at the firing range to check behind their target. This thread needs more Kari anyways and less arguing about shitty paper mache american mcmansions. | ||
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Phant
United States737 Posts
On December 08 2011 03:33 Pawsom wrote: THEY SHOT A CANNONBALL INTO SOMEONES HOUSE. Even pointing a gun(or cannon) in a direction where the room behind your target is not cleared, is a huge lapse of judgement. One of the first things you learn in shooting is to look behind your target. I would be furious if this happened to me, but lets just hope mythbusters pays up fast. it's not like there were houses right behind the concrete wall, there was a giant dirt mound to absorb any bad shots, the cannonball bouncing in such a way to go that far is indeed a freak accident. | ||
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Hrrrrm
United States2081 Posts
On December 08 2011 03:28 ThaZenith wrote: Honestly, makes no difference. Mythbusters is more than 2 people. It makes a HUGE world of difference if you've watched the show and how Adam and Jamie talk about having ABSOLUTE trust between each other but, that's not the case for the other three. The moment I heard about the accident I knew it couldn't of been Adam and Jamie because they don't fuck around EVER with something as serious as this. Obviously they'll still be held responsible since those three work for them. Again Adam and Jamie are just on another level of caution than the other three. I just hope the show doesn't get irrevocably damaged and just glad they dodged a huge bullet with no one getting seriously hurt. | ||
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Offhand
United States1869 Posts
On December 08 2011 03:30 phant wrote: Apparently it was an unlucky bounce, there is a huge dirt mound behind the concrete wall, the cannon ball hit it, bounced over, and flew into the neighborhood. 1/2 mile away. So Mythubsters follows the same safety protocol as a Boy Scout rifle ranged stocked with .22s? A dirt mound would suffice if you were target shooting normal guns but if you're going to launch a giant fuck-off cannonball, why are you anywhere near residential areas? | ||
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couches
618 Posts
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Orangu
Canada198 Posts
On December 08 2011 03:34 DannyJ wrote: Yeah but that's not mythbusters fault. It's a police range, they're the ones who should be responsible for that. Except gun ranges don't take into account cannons, no harm no foul though as long as they don't do it again haha. | ||
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Phant
United States737 Posts
On December 08 2011 03:40 Offhand wrote: So Mythubsters follows the same safety protocol as a Boy Scout rifle ranged stocked with .22s? A dirt mound would suffice if you were target shooting normal guns but if you're going to launch a giant fuck-off cannonball, why are you anywhere near residential areas? Because the Alameda bomb range is one of the few places where they can do this stuff legally. | ||
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Kamikiri
United States1319 Posts
 a super mega gargantuan mistake that could have killed people. | ||
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SupLilSon
Malaysia4123 Posts
On December 08 2011 03:26 Sm3agol wrote: Does this kind of complete stupidityand generalization not annoy anyone else? Lets just randomly insult every American because every derp-tard knows, everything America does is complete trash. What makes it better is that it's someone from Mexico and Portugal(clearly 0.5th world countries) confirming that yes, indeed, America sucks at buildings too. To answer your question, yes, every single American home is made out of paper mache and cardboard. If you're lucky you might get some wood fragments glued together in your wall, and the 1% actually use the occasional nail and screw throughout the house. Sometimes birds and other things come crashing through several walls, so I have to go buy some printer paper and use some chewing gum to stick it back up over the hole. When a breeze over 20 mph comes, I have to evacuate and go to my back yard bomb shelter I have in case of nuclear war with Iran. I just hope my V16 4x4 Ford Truck doesn't get scratched by any flying debris, I can barely afford the gas since it uses about 3 gallons per mile, so I won't be able to repaint it if it does. GO MERCA!! USA!! USA!!! Fortunately I live in a brick home, so I must be, like, one of the richest people in the US? I think I'm the president sometimes. Back to the subject at hand, how does this happen if you have any kind of real safety controls at all? I know Mythbusters usually goes out of their way(seemingly) to make sure everything is safe, so i wonder what they overlooked with something so ridiculous as shooting stuff out of a cannon. I would think that would be a MAJOR undertaking as far as keeping everything safe, not just pointing it at a few garbage cans and a concrete wall and hoping for the best. Eh.. Just ignore it, you get used to seeing snide comments like that a lot. Honestly who cares? It's no secret that American homes aren't built with incredibly durable materials. You probably live in a house 5x bigger than theirs anyways  gogo USA! | ||
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ticktack
United Arab Emirates874 Posts
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bonifaceviii
Canada2890 Posts
On December 08 2011 03:35 couches wrote: This thread needs more Kari anyways and less arguing about shitty paper mache american mcmansions. Kari can knock a hole in my mcmansion any day. | ||
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Zirith
Canada403 Posts
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ReturnStroke
United States801 Posts
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