# Time to Pit "Mythbusters".
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-pit-mythbusters/605508
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [December 8, 2011, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-pit-mythbusters/605508 "2011-12-08T15:23:38Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@R.P.McMurphy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R.P.McMurphy)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2011, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-pit-mythbusters/605508/1 "2011-12-08T15:23:38Z")
They really misfired on this one:
[http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/television/cannonball-mythbusters-show-crashes-calif-home-amp-lands-minivan-article-1.988169](http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/television/cannonball-mythbusters-show-crashes-calif-home-amp-lands-minivan-article-1.988169)
A cannonball decided to go on it’s own adventure.
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> But the ball somehow missed its mark, took an unforeseen bounce off a safety berm and barreled into the quiet Tassajara Creek neighborhood of Dublin about 4 p.m. Tuesday.
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> That’s where the projectile turned into a suburban pinball, bouncing off a sidewalk, blasting through a front door, barreling up some stairs and careening through a bedroom where a man, woman and child were reportedly sleeping.
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> The cannonball then punched through the home’s exterior stucco wall, sailed across a six-lane thoroughfare, ricocheted off the roof of another home and finally crashed through the window of a parked, empty Toyota Sienna minivan, where it came to rest.
Uh Jamie, someone could get hurt.
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### Author:  [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2011, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-pit-mythbusters/605508/2 "2011-12-08T15:35:34Z")
Totally unsafe, but on the other hand, totally cool. I like how the sherrifs office confirmed the myth.
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### Author:  [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2011, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-pit-mythbusters/605508/3 "2011-12-08T15:37:32Z")
> [@R.P.McMurphy](#):
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> They really misfired on this one:
Judging by the last three or four Pit threads you’ve started, I think you are mistaking the Pit for MPSIMS.
Weak stuff.
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### Author:  [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2011, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-pit-mythbusters/605508/4 "2011-12-08T15:48:39Z")
> [@R.P.McMurphy](#):
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> They really misfired on this one:
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> [http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/television/cannonball-mythbusters-show-crashes-calif-home-amp-lands-minivan-article-1.988169](http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/television/cannonball-mythbusters-show-crashes-calif-home-amp-lands-minivan-article-1.988169)
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> A cannonball decided to go on it’s own adventure.
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> Uh Jamie, someone could get hurt.
There’s already a [Cafe Society thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=633982) that’s rougher on them then you are.
Next time raise your voice, shake your fist or use a naughty word or two, o.k.?
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### Author:  [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2011, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-pit-mythbusters/605508/5 "2011-12-08T16:18:12Z")
I reject your pitting and substitute my own!
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### Author:  [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2011, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-pit-mythbusters/605508/6 "2011-12-08T16:39:50Z")
from the photos they seem to be pitting themselves.
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### Author:  [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2011, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-pit-mythbusters/605508/7 "2011-12-08T16:41:15Z")
As long as Kari wasn’t hurt, I’m okay with this.
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### Author:  [@MsWhatsit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsWhatsit)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2011, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-pit-mythbusters/605508/8 "2011-12-08T16:41:19Z")
> [@R.P.McMurphy](#):
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> They really misfired on this one:
Took you a while to come up with that one, did it?
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### Author:  [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2011, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-pit-mythbusters/605508/9 "2011-12-08T16:43:49Z")
> [@billfish678](#):
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> I reject your pitting and substitute my own!
Ha! 😃
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### Author:  [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2011, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-pit-mythbusters/605508/10 "2011-12-08T16:44:58Z")
FUCK.
ok.
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### Author:  [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2011, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-pit-mythbusters/605508/11 "2011-12-08T17:38:17Z")
> [@Omar\_Little](#):
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> As long as Kari wasn’t hurt, I’m okay with this.
She should definitely get into a bikini to apologize. Actually, since the people in the house don’t seem interested, she can apologize to me. I’m not that far down 880.
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### Author:  [@R.P.McMurphy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R.P.McMurphy)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2011, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-pit-mythbusters/605508/12 "2011-12-08T18:10:37Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#):
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> Took you a while to come up with that one, did it?
> [@Frank](#):
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> Judging by the last three or four Pit threads you’ve started, I think you are mistaking the Pit for MPSIMS.
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> Weak stuff.
> [@Czarcasm](#):
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> There’s already a [Cafe Society thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=633982) that’s rougher on them then you are.
> Next time raise your voice, shake your fist or use a naughty word or two, o.k.?
Ok, now I’m inspired.
What’s the matter with those douche bags, Jamie and that other dickwad . . . yea, him. They look like two misfits who spent their youth drinking everything in the chem lab.
Firing a cannon anywhere near a residential area is pretty fucking stupid, especially for guys that make their career out of trying to impress us with how smart they are. Too bad they weren’t testing the myth of the circus performer having a cannon ball bounce off his stomach by testing it on themselves.
I’ll bet those two have issues with penis size. If they can even find theirs they probably spend hours comparing with each other back in the dressing room.
I’ll bet their favorite websites are “Fucking Machines”, “Chicks with Dicks” and “The Sandusky Diaries”.
Kari, you’re too nice to hang out with those two insufferable shitheads. I’ll save you.
Now is that better?
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2011, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-pit-mythbusters/605508/13 "2011-12-08T18:18:50Z")
> [@R.P.McMurphy](#):
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> Firing a cannon anywhere near a residential area is pretty fucking stupid, especially for guys that make their career out of trying to impress us with how smart they are.
They were on a range the police use for bomb testing. (I had no idea it was anywhere near a residential area, but I guess it has to be near something.) I am pretty sure they’ve fired cannons there before, and the police evidently didn’t have a problem with it, although I expect this is the last time they’ll do anything like this on that site. They screwed up, but it’s not as incomprehensible as all that. Either way, your thread is redundant and this effort to amp it up is half-hearted at best.
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### Author:  [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2011, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-pit-mythbusters/605508/14 "2011-12-08T18:21:24Z")
> [@Marley23](#):
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> . Either way, your thread is redundant and this effort to amp it up is half-hearted at best.
Yeah.
Now if he had included something about handlebar mustaches and cocksuckery he might has made a respectable go of this.
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### Author:  [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2011, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-pit-mythbusters/605508/15 "2011-12-08T18:26:25Z")
Dangerous, yeah, but the only harm done was to property which I’m sure the producers (or more likely their production insurance) are paying to repair in full. While it will be an inconvenience to the homeowners, _they now have an awesome story to tell for the rest of their lives_. How many people can say they once awoke to the sound of a cannonball crashing through their house? I’d say it was an unintentional win.
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### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2011, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-pit-mythbusters/605508/16 "2011-12-08T18:28:58Z")
> [@R.P.McMurphy](#):
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> Kari, you’re too nice to hang out with those two insufferable shitheads. I’ll save you.
You’re being way too harsh on Grant and Tory. 😃
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2011, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-pit-mythbusters/605508/17 "2011-12-08T18:43:17Z")
> [@Rigamarole](#):
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> Dangerous, yeah, but the only harm done was to property which I’m sure the producers (or more likely their production insurance) are paying to repair in full. While it will be an inconvenience to the homeowners, _they now have an awesome story to tell for the rest of their lives_.
They don’t seem to think it’s so awesome because someone could’ve been killed. Maybe later on they’ll feel differently. (I might, but I’m a fan.) The show’s insurance is going to pay for whatever damage/lawsuit costs are out there, I expect.
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### Author:  [@Rigamarole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rigamarole)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2011, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-pit-mythbusters/605508/18 "2011-12-08T18:45:36Z")
> [@Marley23](#):
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> They don’t seem to think it’s so awesome because someone could’ve been killed.
But they weren’t, so… ?
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### Author:  [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2011, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-pit-mythbusters/605508/19 "2011-12-08T19:02:46Z")
> [@Rigamarole](#):
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> But they weren’t, so… ?
So they got lucky. You can see where maybe they are not going to think this is awesome regardless.
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### Author:  [@marshmallow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/marshmallow)
#### Post date: [December 8, 2011, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-pit-mythbusters/605508/20 "2011-12-08T21:43:40Z")
MythBusters appeals to the lowest common denominator who enjoys the pointless reality TV drama of fake competitions and half of each episode involves recapping what happened before the last commercial. They test things that anyone who reads more than the menu at Denny’s would already know. Half their experiments are flawed. Its fanbase’s drooling towards the only female cast member is depressing. It is representative of the decline of general science/history/“edutainment” shows over the last decade.
Well, except the time they shot frozen chickens at an airplane window. That was kinda neat.
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