According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the projectile was supposed to hit some rather large trash cans filled with water before piercing a wall.

Strangely, it missed the trash cans, tore through a cinder-block wall, bounced its merry way down a hillside, barreled 700 yards through a suburban California neighborhood, smashed through the front door of a house, bounced up the stairs of the house and, without knocking, penetrated a bedroom door where a man, woman, and child were sleeping.

They were only woken after the cannonball had passed through. There was a little rubble and dust.

Was it done? Of course not. The cannonball then bounced its way out through the wall of the house, crossed a road, smashed a few tiles that were carelessly lying around on the roof of another house and finally took a seat inside the Gill family's Toyota Sienna, which they had thoughtlessly parked in the driveway of their home.

Chris Matyszczyk  wrote:

dodgeman007  wrote:

This comment was made in reference to taking the show and Discovery Channel to court and sue them.


No question, the family needs to have the repairs paid for and some compensation for the intrusion, however, I feel the quoted comment is exactly what is wrong with this country.

Originally Posted by: Zero2Cool