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Offline onegreatshot

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Cannon kills wife
« on: March 06, 2012, 06:33:37 AM »
Well its all over the news here in So. Cal.  Man working on cannon, when it fired and cannon ball went through side of trailer and kills wife inside. Occurred in small town near Mexican Border. One of two people working on cannon also went o the hospital. Neighbor stated subject liked to make large fireworks. The town is Potrero near Campo and Tecate, lot of cactus and sand.
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Re: Cannon kills wife
« Reply #1 on: March 06, 2012, 06:41:04 AM »
 :( :( :( :( :( :( ....sorry to hear this, and it's too bad he didn't find a forum like ours to gain some knowledge first before he had this mishap....Any postings on regular news sites about it?
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Re: Cannon kills wife
« Reply #2 on: March 06, 2012, 06:49:59 AM »
I imagine you could Google it and something will be there
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Re: Cannon kills wife
« Reply #3 on: March 06, 2012, 06:50:22 AM »
http://www.10news.com/news/30617814/detail.html

Here's a link to a news story.

Who know what happened for sure, alcohol appears to factor in....
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Re: Cannon kills wife
« Reply #4 on: March 06, 2012, 08:47:29 AM »
 :o  Does be sure of your backstop come to mind?   :(
It will be interesting to see how this plays out.......
I am half surprised he didn't say " I didn't know it was loaded"......
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Re: Cannon kills wife
« Reply #5 on: March 06, 2012, 10:22:36 AM »
I hope the drunken moron gets prison time!
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Re: Cannon kills wife
« Reply #6 on: March 06, 2012, 10:24:43 AM »
Yep...12:15 AM (or 0015 for you military types)...you can beat that there was alcohol invoved. Even with a signal charge I would NEVER point my artillery at any structure.  I'm not eve sure I could do it if I was told "it's okay, go ahead".
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Re: Cannon kills wife
« Reply #7 on: March 06, 2012, 01:54:58 PM »
http://www.10news.com/news/30617814/detail.html

So far I have read or heard the following negative factors

Drinking

Homemade contraption

Victim struck by fragments or cannon ball

Fireworks powder


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Re: Cannon kills wife
« Reply #8 on: March 06, 2012, 03:12:14 PM »
Saw the same story on Yahoo with the original link.   
Nuts! 
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Re: Cannon kills wife
« Reply #9 on: March 06, 2012, 03:14:09 PM »
Plus, you always have to be suspicious in these spousal accidental deaths.
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Re: Cannon kills wife
« Reply #10 on: March 06, 2012, 03:21:34 PM »
Quote from: GGaskill on March 06, 2012, 03:14:09 PM
Plus, you always have to be suspicious in these spousal accidental deaths.

I was thinking the same thing.
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Re: Cannon kills wife
« Reply #11 on: March 06, 2012, 04:41:38 PM »
"Honestly Your Honor, I was just cleaning my cannon, I didn't KNOW it was loaded!"

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Re: Cannon kills wife
« Reply #12 on: March 06, 2012, 05:24:07 PM »
well hells bells who's going to unload their cannon while cleaning ?
crikey thats just the sort of thing your enemies are waiting for ....... ???
 
thats an old indian trick . ;D
 
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Re: Cannon kills wife
« Reply #13 on: March 07, 2012, 01:42:55 AM »
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Re: Cannon kills wife
« Reply #14 on: March 07, 2012, 03:06:21 AM »
I saw this Yahoo article today and that led me to here. Here's a few of the comments made.
 
"Oh man! Now they're gonna outlaw our cannons!!!!  When cannons are outlawed only pirates will have cannons."
 
http://news.yahoo.com/california-man-arrested-killing-girlfriend-canon-011601353.html
 
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Re: Cannon kills wife
« Reply #15 on: March 07, 2012, 03:27:08 AM »
Yes, I saw this morning that he was arrested.   And deservedly so.  Powder from fireworks!   Homemade "cannon". 
As every one here agrees:  When you light the fuse...  you must be sure that you have a safe cannon and not a pipe bomb.
As with every firearm, muzzle control.  Safe, well thought out, proceedures.  Need we say no alcohol or drugs!
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Re: Cannon kills wife
« Reply #16 on: March 07, 2012, 03:48:49 AM »
Quote from: flagman1776 on March 07, 2012, 01:42:55 AM
I have an old JD 410 backhoe...  back yard machine... 

Sometimes it is necessary for the wife to roll things into the bucket or otherwise get within the swing of the bucket.  I've had to remind her on several occasions not to go into the danger zone until I have my hands off the controls.  I told her "If I ever hit her with the thing, no one would ever believe it was an accident!"

Those things do happen too! There is a fellow on another forum who ended up running his wifes legs over with a tractor.... she lost one leg and has partial use of the other, she had a very long hospital stay and it was killing him you could read it in the things he wrote, she is now home and has a long road to recovery but she's a tough cookie and this all happened to people in their late 60's early 70's....So be careful with the heavy equipment out there.......
Now back to cannon accidents......... I hope there will be some photo's released of the alleged cannon from this sad event we may glean what happened it sounds like the tube exploded......
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Re: Cannon kills wife
« Reply #17 on: March 08, 2012, 09:23:26 AM »
Update, San Diego News 10 states "cannon was a 21' long pipe 2" in dia. buried in the ground. Fireworks powder was used. And here it is Alcohol was involved.  For a little more info. go to www.10news.com/news.
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Re: Cannon kills wife
« Reply #18 on: March 08, 2012, 10:32:56 AM »
Quote from: onegreatshot on March 08, 2012, 09:23:26 AM
Update, San Diego News 10 states "cannon was a 21' long pipe 2" in dia. buried in the ground. Fireworks powder was used. And here it is Alcohol was involved.  For a little more info. go to www.10news.com/news.

I am somewhat confused about the description of the event.  Things like buried in the ground, cannon and mortar used to describe the device, and wife killed by shrapnel. 
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Re: Cannon kills wife
« Reply #19 on: March 08, 2012, 11:00:44 AM »
 BOB and Tom morning show had this story. I sent them GBO canon link ;)  They refered to the canon as a potatoe gun with powder. One of them asked why or who would have a canon now days? That was when I emailed them the link ;D
 
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Re: Cannon kills wife
« Reply #20 on: March 08, 2012, 11:40:59 AM »
Quote from: Lon371 on March 08, 2012, 11:00:44 AM
BOB and Tom morning show had this story. I sent them GBO canon link ;)  They refered to the canon as a potatoe gun with powder. One of them asked why or who would have a canon now days? That was when I emailed them the link ;D
 
Lonny
Not sure that is a positive in this case as now they associate us with bubba and his killer cannon.......
so what did they have to say after they got the link?
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Re: Cannon kills wife
« Reply #21 on: March 08, 2012, 04:32:17 PM »
Mortar like device.  Pointed away from trailer.  26" barrel with welded breach.  pyrotechnic powder lit with fuse.  Tube ruptured, woman injured by scrapnel...  died. 
http://news.yahoo.com/california-woman-slain-mortar-device-prosecutor-020205393.html
"You've got to be sure when you light the fuse...  "
 
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Re: Cannon kills wife
« Reply #22 on: March 08, 2012, 05:51:26 PM »
Well he didn't ask me how to build that's for sure..
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Re: Cannon kills wife
« Reply #23 on: March 09, 2012, 04:34:32 AM »
Quote from: flagman1776 on March 08, 2012, 04:32:17 PM
Mortar like device.  Pointed away from trailer.  26" barrel with welded breach.  pyrotechnic powder lit with fuse.  Tube ruptured, woman injured by scrapnel...  died. 
http://news.yahoo.com/california-woman-slain-mortar-device-prosecutor-020205393.html
"You've got to be sure when you light the fuse...  "

This article has a much better explanation than the earlier articles.  He in effect made a "mortar" that turned out to be a bomb.
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Re: Cannon kills wife
« Reply #24 on: March 09, 2012, 04:58:01 AM »
Can you imagine what position that guy would be in if he had come here and told us what he wanted to build and we told him it was unsafe....the prosecutor would love to find something like that.
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Re: Cannon kills wife
« Reply #25 on: March 09, 2012, 08:04:06 AM »
Quote from: KABAR2 on March 08, 2012, 11:40:59 AM
Quote from: Lon371 on March 08, 2012, 11:00:44 AM
BOB and Tom morning show had this story. I sent them GBO canon link ;)  They refered to the canon as a potatoe gun with powder. One of them asked why or who would have a canon now days? That was when I emailed them the link ;D
 
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Not sure that is a positive in this case as now they associate us with bubba and his killer cannon.......
so what did they have to say after they got the link?

They never commented on air and never replied to the message. Not much comedy value in the awesome projects you all build ;)
 
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Re: Cannon kills wife
« Reply #26 on: March 12, 2012, 06:21:48 AM »
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/homemade-cannon-murder-charge-no-evidence-killing-intentional-113324685--abc-news.html

The idiot and friend was drunk has done time for gun possession and auto theft in the 90s. Also misdemeanor battery charge in 2009 against the dead woman.
He is going to be charged with first degree murder.
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Re: Cannon kills wife
« Reply #27 on: March 12, 2012, 08:05:19 AM »
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Re: Cannon kills wife
« Reply #28 on: March 12, 2012, 08:08:08 AM »
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Re: Cannon kills wife
« Reply #29 on: March 12, 2012, 10:13:24 AM »
Quote from: Double D on March 09, 2012, 04:58:01 AM
Can you imagine what position that guy would be in if he had come here and told us what he wanted to build and we told him it was unsafe....the prosecutor would love to find something like that.



And some folks think we're to rigid on rules of safety!

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