Grapeshot?! You shoulda seen his cannon!
Posted on 11/15/2013 5:39:08 PM PST by nickcarraway
A 52-year-old man who allegedly fired a Civil War cannon at his neighbor's house for eight days straight during an ongoing feud was arrested yesterday.
New York's Brian J. Malta is accused of repeatedly firing the antique long tom, loaded with a powder charge and wadding, at the Prosser Hill Road, Jamestown property.
While it is not illegal to own a cannon, deputies reportedly confiscated it because it was used maliciously.
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This guy needs some psychological help. He also looks like a convict. He’s got the unibrow thing going on.
Grapeshot?! You shoulda seen his cannon!
The article doesn’t say how often he fired it, or how the neighbor knew that it was directed at his house.
We had a neighbor at our summer place in Maine who used to fire a sunset cannon every night.
Was this guy firing his cannon repeatedly? Or daily? At the neighbor’s house? Not a very well written article.
But isn’t the Obama administration buying up the worlds supply of cannon balls?
Pretty high deductible though . . .
Some people SERIOUSLY want one...
Or, you can make a "spud gun". We lobbed potatoes more than 100 YARDS using veggie oil and hair spray mixture for propellant...
Had a friend where I lived in NM who owned a huge CW Cannon. It was on a iron tread oak wheel carriage, but was designed as a naval cannon for a fixed emplacement.
He would shoot it every 4th of July. (he was the local medical examiner)
You could not pull the cannon on an asphalt road. The wheel width and weight of the cannon made it a hazard to the road surface itself. It had to be transported by transport truck. HEAVY
But it was loud.
Now that’s what I’m talkin’ about!!! :D
A medical examiner with a cannon...ya gotta love it!
OK, grapefruit shot.
try this link (I am on phone) http://www.ebaumsworld.com/audio/play/1069737/
It’s hard to hit your neighbor’s house when cannon balls are outlawed.
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Not Really, Find a bottle or can just the right size to go down the muzzle, fill it with cement and load ‘er up.
Very cool.
Canister at 20 yards
no doubt! good for him...
hope it felt good!
Good thing he didn’t have a recording of the 1812 Overture.
Yep, and he was a great guy.
Better yet.....loaded it up with a double charge and filled the barrel with mud...
...light LONG fuse and retire to a safe location.
Due to popular demand (mine), I’ll tell this true story, for posterity.
A young man named Lars worked in our family store back in the 1960’s. He was a Civl War reenactor out of Baltimore and often went to enactments on the weekend.
On one trip, they ended up somewhere in southern Virginia, where, after the action and while still in dirty uniforms, they decided to get something to eat on the road.
They stopped at a bar and grill and walked in, still in their uniforms, and asked to be served. They were turned away as “dirty hippies” or something like that.
Well, these guys were hungry and pissed, plus they had a 5 lb. cannon with them, so they headed to a nearby McDonald’s for food and supplies.
The supplies were dozens of hamburgers filled with ketchup, mustard and pickles. Then they ramrodded them into the powder-loaded cannon and went back to the bar and grill. There they fired the cannon point-blank at the door, blowing it in and spraying the place with burgers.
Then it was back to the roadtrip for home.
They felt pretty safe from the law because what police officer would check out a call from a bar that said a bunch of Yankee/Confederate soldiers blew in their door with a hamburger-loaded cannon.
Sometimes you’ve got to say “What the hey, and good for it” (Richy Brockelman character in “The Rockford Files).
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