"Donna Stern, a representative of the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration & Immigrant Rights And Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) is outraged. "They're going to train students to be subservient workers. This is not why parents send them to school."

Fall down on your knees and thank the God that made you that anyone's investing anything in making useful citizens out of that Future Thugs of America chapter, you ungrateful critter.

"You can perform all due diligence and still have shit happen. I work on Aberdeen Proving Ground. People get hurt on the test ranges. Sometimes people die. You can't know every possible outcome."

I absolutely do not disagree with any of that, but we aren't talking about the test range. If that projectile had actually killed or injured someone where it came to rest, which was not on the test range, don't count on the judge being a good sport upon hearing, "People get hurt on the test ranges. Sometimes people die. You can't know every possible outcome."

I think we might be talking about two slightly different things. The Mythbusters are not the Army Ordnance Corps, and the people living in that suburb never signed up to assume the risk from someone dicking around with a thirty pounder cannon.

"No they didn't get lucky. If anything they were unlucky."

You've never owned or shot any firearms, have you?

They deliberately touched the match to the powder. The responsibility for firing that deadly weapon was theirs, and theirs only. There is no "unlucky" way to fire a gun on purpose--this can't even be termed a negligent discharge, they were aiming the thing, counting down, the whole works.

I believe Geoduck was referring to the luck the damfools had in not killing or crippling somebody.