'Mythbusters' Explosion Startles Yolo County Town

[Kadie]

Mar 25, 2009 10:49 pm US/Pacific
'Mythbusters' Explosion Startles Yolo County Town

ESPARTO, Calif. (CBS13) ―
An explosion rocked the Yolo County town of Esparto today, and it was kind of on purpose. The popular TV show "Mythbusters" was shooting an episode of their show, but the segment didn't exactly go as planned.

The Mythbusters came out to answer the question: Can you really knock off someone's socks?

What better place to come than a rock quarry? The residents of Esparto no longer agree with that statement after Friday's event.

"They said it felt like someone rammed into the side of the school with a truck," said resident Janine Gillham, whose son was in school that day.

Ironically, the filming was a secret, so people wouldn't come close enough to be in danger from the blast. The explosion ended up being big enough to be felt and head by everyone in Esparto, and it caused damage at local homes and businesses.

"Scared the hell out of everybody," said Lavell McCray, whose store suffered damage in the blast.

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[DS1]

1. Well, did they knock off the socks, or do we have to sit through their miserable show to find out?

[jobycom]

3. Miserable sho...?

Now I understand the DTM lists!

[Rabrrrrrr]

6. Have to wait for the show - says it at the bottom of the article.

x(

Being a Mythbuster - must be the world's greatest job, ever.

[Kadie]

9. We may never know...

from the article...
Show producers won't say if you can really knock off someone's socks, saying people will have to watch the episode to find out.

.....

However, on the news this morning they were saying they have not decided if they were going to broadcast the show or not.


:shrug:

[damntexdem]

10. Yeah, what about the socks question?

My quarry is the answer to the quarry query.

[tridim]

13. To each his own I guess, I think it's the best show on TV. nt

[TwilightGardener]

15. It's great family entertainment! My boys love it. We especially loved

the episode when Jamie and Adam got drunk, slapped each other and fell off the treadmill.

[TheMightyFavog]

18. Mythbusters? a miserable show/

Surely you jest.

I so want a chicken gun like the one they made in season 1. FOOM!

[jobycom]

2. Wow, I can't imagine those guys doing something like that.

:rofl:

Anyone NOT want that job?

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

16. A job where you get to blow shit up and build cool things expressly to blow things up?

And it doesn't involve the military??


Yes, please!! I got into the WRONG line of work!!

[slackmaster]

17. And do it legally, in CALIFORNIA!

Best job EVER.

[jobycom]

19. Most normal folk can't even blow up firecrackers! nt

[Kadie]

22. LOL

I know my husband and son would both consider that their dream job.

:rofl:

[Posteritatis]

4. "Kind of on purpose" ... LOL (nt)

[rurallib]

5. Knock their socks off? Not so much. Heart attacks? You betchya!

This also causes heart attacks

[TexasObserver]

8. "I'm gonna do some fancy pageant walkin' now!"

[GoddessOfGuinness]

7. Sounds like they answered another question in the process:

"Is it possible to make people piss in their pants?"

[lazyriver]

11. It was only a matter of time.

[tularetom]

12. It was bound to happen

They keep setting off bigger and bigger explosions. Eventually you knew they would cause some damage with one of them.

BTW if you want to see something really funny google "mythbusters - do pretty girls fart?"

[tuckessee]

14. What idiots.

Why would they need to test that? Plenty of people have been struck by fast moving objects (like race cars) and been knocked out of their shoes and sometimes socks.

To a certain degree it depends on how loose one likes his footwear.

[spoony]

21. I agree. I used to like their show

but they ran out of honest-to-goodness myths and now just try to re-enact crappy stunts from movies (Oh really? You might not be able to blow up a mega-shark like in Deep Blue Sea? That settles that!) or "prove" figures of speech that no one seriously questions.

[snooper2]

20. one of the greatest shows on...

"McCray's convenience store lost a window, and their surveillance monitor fell to the floor. "It evidently broke loose from the ceiling," McCray said."


That's the price you have to pay so we can watch greatness...suck it up!