MythBusters Smash Suburban Home and Minivan with Cannonball

Mythbusters trying to blow stuff up finally led to a pretty bad accident that put lives in danger and damaged property.

From the AP here:

A stunt gone awry met with an unhappy audience when an errant cannonball went shooting through a California family’s bedroom.

Sheriff’s deputies are still measuring how, exactly, the cannonball flew from a bomb range in the rolling hills flanking a suburban San Francisco Bay area neighborhood and rocketed into the front door of a home and through its master bedroom before landing in a neighbor’s parked minivan.

Hosts for the Discovery Channel show fired the cannonball Tuesday as they filmed an episode. Instead of hitting a string of water-filled garbage cans, however, the cannonball passed over the barrels, crashed straight through a protective cinderblock wall and careened off the hill behind it.

“It missed the target and took kind of an oddball bounce,” Nelson said. “It was almost like skipping a rock on a lake. Instead of burying it into the hill it just went skyward.” No one was injured, and the home’s residents didn’t even wake up until the broken drywall settled on top of them, Nelson said.

And TLC pulled down all the tweets about the Cannonball show leading up to yesterday’s accident. One showed Kari Byron sitting next to the big cannon with a big smile on her face. But now those tweets are down the memory hole.