Posted on 01/11/2013 7:47:48 PM PST by CtBigPat
Parks workers came upon a live cannon ball, loaded in a cannon that is getting refurbished, CBS 2’s Lou Young reported exclusively.
The loaded artillery piece was one of two Revolutionary War-era cannons being stored at the park’s Ramble shed near the 79th Street transverse. Preservation workers for the Central Park Conservancy called police about mid-day after opening up the capped cannon for cleaning.
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An unloaded cannon is absolutely useless!
One that has the explosive charge inside it.
The charge that is timed to go off when the ball lands; which is a separate charge from the one that launches it out of the cannon.
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