This just in on ABC News. California: Husband Kills Wife with Homemade Cannon WTF!?!? O-| U.S. News - California woman killed by 'homemade cannon'
California are more inventive Being from California I can attest to the fact that Californians can many times be more inventive, although it is usually the wife attorney's who are the best on creating things out of mid air. If a man was able to create a homemade cannon the arms race is on. (I am not sure you were astounded by the fast it was homemade or only a cannon). I would predict that soon a lady will create homemade crouch seeking long range missile capable of locating a husband in a local motel. The short range version has already been invented for home use. Many time is looks similar to a frying pan...lol.
I am astounded that it was a cannon and more so cuz its homemade. I heard a lot of jokes about getting rid of the wife, but man! That guy is original. They live in a trailer but that's not what surprises me, what surprised me is... What does a man in a trailer need a cannon for? ???
Where I am from on the Oregon coast many people had homemade cannons. It was a local hobby and pastime. I have one ear that does not work so well from being a little too close to one that exploded. We picked up pieces of the cannon a mile away, but never found the missing piece of my ear. Larry
Me either! For that matter I would want to see pics of both hands to see if they have all of their fingers!
LOL, no problem with the fingers, it's the ear parts that were destroyed! Actually I do have some hearing again now after 30 years or so. For many years if I got water in my ear I would lose my equilibrium, and flounder around like a fish out of water. It would take 10-15 minutes before I could stand again when that happened. That also has not happened now in quite a few years, so I am assuming the eardrum has grown back over. However, diving is not an option high on my priority list. Lesson; 2 scoops of red dot powder is not equivalent to two scoops of green dot powder! Larry
Thank God is was not a cannon...only a homemade mortar aimed away from the trailer I was so relieved that some idiot had not built a cannon in his house because I still have friends and family in California. It was just some idiot building his own mortars in his trailer with his family. What a relief. I think this is the same incident, the area is a little different. From the internet news El CAJON, California (Reuters) - A California man did not mean to kill his girlfriend when he ignited a makeshift "mortar-like device" and it exploded, sending shrapnel into their trailer home that struck and killed the woman, a prosecutor said on Thursday. Richard Fox has been charged with murder over the woman's death earlier this week, in a case a legal expert said will likely hinge on accusations he acted recklessly. The bizarre and grisly fatality of the 39-year-old Fox's girlfriend, Jeanette Ogara, alarmed residents in the remote border community of Potrero where the couple lived, and left the couple's families in grief. Police initially said the weapon, which was set up outside the home, was a homemade cannon. But San Diego County deputy district attorney C.J. Mody on Thursday called the contraption an "improvised mortar-like device" with a 26-inch metal tube, a welded base and a fuse at the bottom. Police shortly after Fox's arrest said it was too early to tell if Ogara's death from the explosion was accidental. Mody on Thursday clarified the position of authorities. "There is no evidence this was intentional," Mody told reporters outside the courtroom. Fox, Ogara and three adult guests had been drinking before the explosion, Mody said. The prosecutor declined to say why Fox might have ignited the device during the party. The fresh revelations about the case came on Thursday as Fox pleaded not guilty to charges of murder, explosion of a destructive device causing death and child endangerment. When asked why Fox has been charged with murder if he did not intend to kill Ogara, 38, the prosecutor responded that the investigation is ongoing. Fox was arraigned in El Cajon, California, following his arrest Tuesday over the fatal nighttime explosion hours earlier at the couple's trailer home, which is less than 40 miles east of San Diego and across the border from Tecate, Mexico. The couple's 4-year-old daughter was inside the home, which is why Fox is charged with child endangerment, Mody said. Authorities have said Fox used fireworks powder in the weapon. He had the tube pointed away from the trailer home, which is located in a mountainous and rural area, but a portion of the pipe exploded as fragments pierced the wall of the trailer and struck Ogara in the upper chest, Mody said. She died "pretty much instantaneously," he said. The couple's three friends who were also in the trailer were not injured, but Fox was treated for wounds to his leg. Loyola Law School professor Stan Goldman said this early in the case, prosecutors do not have to indicate whether they are seeking a first-degree or second-degree murder charge. They are most likely aiming for second-degree murder, which is defined as not pre-meditated, under "a gross recklessness theory," he said. Fox, who remains in jail on bail of $3.5 million, made his court appearance from detention via video conference. His deputy public defender entered his not guilty pleas. Fox, who is due back in court on March 16, faces a maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted. Visibly upset family members of both Fox and Ogara attended the hearing on Thursday. My comments: He was obisously thinking of safety issues as he aimed the open end of the mortar away from the inside of the trailer. Any guy who gets 3.5 million bail and lives in a trailer is not going home soon, but be other issues there also. He even mentions that he did not mean to kill his girlfriend. I guess that needs to be filed under, "do not blow up the bowl you eat out of" category. Life in the Philiipines is pretty good, I don't have any bomb building neighbors here I think .....
I have spent a considerable amount of time near the Mexico border, near Yuma. If I lived there now, I would be building cannons too! Larry
