Man charged after firing cannonball through neighbor's house

The 54-year-old man, who regularly participates in battle re-enactments, fired a lead ball through the side of his neighbor's house, breaking a window and traveling through a wall before landing in a clothes closet. No one was injured. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

Comments

[Pete]

Maybe the neighbor just wouldn't stop playing "Who Let the Dogs Out" over and over and over and over and...

[Pete]

...until Maser "let loose the dogs of war."

[Phranqlin]

He just wants to party like it's 1759.

[LimeGreenLizard]

Cannon Ball!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[nellagain]

Tent Church Road

[kevy]

"He said he was not sure how regularly Mr. Maser fired his cannon."

I think that's between Mr. and Mrs. Maser.

[Johnjohn]

Now now, I am sure Mr. Maser was just cleaning his cannon when it accidentally discharged.

Remember Mr. Maser, treat every cannon as if it were loaded!

[Russ]

The guy lives on Tent Church Road. Good thing he didn't shoot his cannon at that church, it could have been slaughter.

Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war. - Julius Caesar, Act III, scene 1.

[proud texan]

Where is the 'alchol was involved' disclaimer.

[bugga_boo]

Lightning Bolt! Lightning Bolt!! Lightning Bolt!!!

[jeez]

Ayup, my kinda neighbor. We had some homeade mortars when I was a kid. Used to shoot one pound coffee cans full of concrete. Great noise and good for a half mile skyward. Did good till one blew apart. Shrapnel took out half the windows in the barn, headlite and radiator in a truck. Still peices of it stuck into the side of the barn. Ayup those were the days.

[Navy Chief]

@jeez - Sounds like fun! When's the next shhot? ;-)

[Charles Brobst]

Remember the rooftop chimneysweep scene in Mary Poppins? It was like that, only just one little cannonball.

[thomas]

You can have the same effect with a fresh bicycle innertube between two trees, and a brick,,and it won't wake the neighbors.

[nellagain]

thomas

Heaven's Seventeen would like you to explain, in detail, how you know this.

[Sheila]

"Cry havoc" means take no prisoners, kill all the enemy on the battlefield so we don't have to drag them around with us. At least Cannonball Man didn't kill anyone, not for lack of trying.

[thomas]

Nellagain

Briefly, an inventive, somewhat vengeful experiment in ballistics and trajectory with unfortunate though hysterical and surprisingly long range results.
And it left no fingerprints.
Many moons ago.

[polly]

oopsie!

[angrysockmonkey]

I think I can now remember why I love this state of PA so much.. Its because of the variety of wackos we have here.. Never a dull moment!!!

[heywood]

cannons don't kill people, people kill people. This man has a constitutional right to have a cannon, like any other well regulated militia.

[thing1]

I have a cannon... in my pants... sometimes it goes off when I am cleaning it...