[url=“http://www.thekansascitychannel.com/education/3255438/detail.html”] Two Arrested After Cannon Explodes Outside MU Fraternity
Building Damaged; No One Injured In Blast
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Two Arrested After Cannon Explodes Outside MU Fraternity
Building Damaged; No One Injured In Blast
The same thing happened at Auburn University back in the 1970’s.
During summer quarter, some of those frat boys got bored and loaded their civil war era cannon up.
Their’s didn’t explode though. It did exactly what it was designed to do. They’d aimed it at a girl’s dorm about a half-mile away. They blew a hole in the wall of the dorm.
Luckily, nobody was injured. IIRC, the frat had to pay the university to repair the damage, and the shooters were placed on probation.
THANK OG today is graduation day here in lovely Tallahassee.
**FRAT BOYS GO HOME! **
and take your freakin’ loud-ass cars with you
GD, when did I get old? :dubious:
Luckily, no explosions here… here they just like to set the garbage cans on fire and let them burn into the asphalt of the parking lot. :rolleyes:
If they ever got their hands on a real cannon…help us all.
Give them a break we have all done this I’m sure. Just part of growing up.
Well, they’ll be lucky if they make it to “grown up”.
Or, depending on where the shrapnel flies, not growing up.
Still, I’m all for frat boys blowing themselves to hell. Evolution in action, y’know? What pisses me off is the destruction of a historic Civil War era cannon!!
What pisses me off, is that an innocent person could have been killed. I can’t believe some people are saying “boys will be boys”. If someone had been killed, would they be saying that? Geez…
No. Best not to speak for all (almost) 4,000 of us, m’kay? I made it through my adolescent and college years without blowing anything up, knocking down walls, pulling fire alarms, assaulting a drunk girl at a party, crashing my car into a storefront, egging someone’s home, stealing from a store, beating someone senseless or being arrested.
So, there you’d stand. Just behind the aggrieved parents of the student whose body was completely crushed by the canon as it drove through the 5th floor on it’s way to the 4th floor. And that’s your comment, eh?
" Give them a break we have all done this I’m sure. Just a part of growing up".
Ahem. They’re so damned lucky nobody was killed. SO damned lucky.
Committing atrocious acts of violence is not some noble American rite of passage. So, please try to rephrase that post so that you don’t include me in the group of “we”. Or anyone else who is just as horrified at this kind of behavior.
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Not a group of frat boys, but a bunch of my ex’s sister’s friends were playing around with a home made cannon when it exploded. It killed my ex’s sister’s high school sweetheart. It really messed her up, because she was the one who wanted to go and see the cannon. He hadn’t wanted to go, so she blamed herself when he died. So, yeah “boys will be boys” but they won’t always survive. :rolleyes:
Beer + Artillery + Stupidity = WHOPS-A-DOODLE-BOOM! :smack:
You think they are lucky? How do you think I feel - that was my apartment building the shrapnel went through! My apartment faces the cannon, and I was watching them through the window, wondering what the heck they were doing, when the cannon exploded. I don’t think I’ve ever jumped so high in my life.
At least I got a front row seat to the aftermath, though.
Was i the only one who thought there was a shade of sarcasm in Paul in Saudi’s post? Right there snuck between “Give them a break” and “Just part of growing up.”?
Christ. If you’re going to load and fire a cannon, do it RIGHT. And for pete’s sake (whoever pete is) don’t do it near PEOPLE. Or wood. Or anything you’re particularly fond if, such as your hearing.
I can understand wanting to blow some stuff up. I can understand shooting a cannon. I mean, hell, you’ve got a cannon. You pretty much have to shoot it. It’s like a rule or something. I’ve blown some stuff up, and I’ve shot a cannon (six pound field gun, dog-food can full of concrete). It happens.
The thing is, it’s supposed to happen safely. You need to plan properly and truck the whole shebang to a sandpit or somewhere else safe. And you don’t ever, ever mix alcohol and anything that might conceivably go “boom.”
Those idiots could have killed somebody.
Of course, these views are being expressed on a Board that once prominently featured a proposal to build a cannon out of PVC piping, for the singular purpose of launching a goat into orbit.
We were going to do a pay-per-view, procedes to go for new Hamsters.
Ah…the SDMB Royal Space Gunners…my days in the Artillery… 
That’s just the thing. It was proposed, but not followed through with even though, as we all know, goat launching is a time-honored tradition.
What happened? No one got liquored up enough?
Does exploding PVC pipe cause shrapnel?
No, but exploding goat shrapnel is pretty deadly.
Actually i think i’d be more worried about a PVC pipe creating shrapnel than a cannon. I mean, at least a cannon’s designed to have goats shot out of it. I’m pretty sure the engineers designing household pvc pipe weren’t betting on the insides of their product experiencing large explosions or sock-eating mammals.
Let’s see…
- Firing a cannon in the middle of a neighborhood :mad:
- Pointing the damn thing across a street at another building where people live :mad: :mad:
- Not looking into safe procedures of firing a cannon before doing so (loading it with FIREWORKS?!?! :mad: :mad: :mad: ) and loading the thing with enough firework parts to blow the thing apart (yay, shrapnel) :mad:
I hope they get more than a slap on the wrist.