Teen's Experiment Blasts Hole In Neighbor's Home

[Kadie]

Sep 30, 2009 11:45 pm US/Pacific
Teen's Experiment Blasts Hole In Neighbor's Home

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) ― An experiment by a teen boy ended with crime scene investigators searching a neighbor's home in South Sacramento that was riddled with holes.

The 14-year-old boy created an invention that can shoot objects at high speed, according to his father, and once a small piece of metal and fireworks became involved, the experiment turned destructive.

John Neves and his wife, Paula Petersen, arrived home to find a trial of debris leading through their house. You could follow the path of the projectile through the wooden fence, through a window, through a wall and finally coming to rest lodged in a bathroom tile.

"Shards of glass all over the place here," John said. "A lot of power, pretty impressive."

The irregularly shaped object even tore through electrical wires and took out a wall power outlet, John said.

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Officers spoke to the teen, who is a certified welder, about the incident. The boy's father said he plans to take up a new hobby now.


more and news video at...
http://cbs13.com/local/teen.neighbor.home.2.1220041.html

[derby378]

1. Well, he could have a future in the Army as an artillery commander...

...provided he keeps his nose clean until then. :rofl:

[NashVegas]

8. Munitions Company CEO More Likely

As investors fall over themselves ...

[ddeclue]

2. Compressed air gun? Potato cannon? E-M rail gun?

What kind of device and how fast are we talking here?

[cliffordu]

3. I'll bet the military will be all over this......

[phantom power]

4. Oh please... let it be a rail-gun.

:rofl:

[Hassin Bin Sober]

6. 88 Magnum. It shoots through schools (and houses).

[EOTE]

22. You farging ice hole! NT

[triple point]

10. The shape of that hole resembles a CO2 cartridge...

hmmm


;-)

[lumberjack_jeff]

12. Probably a coil gun

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coilgun

I wouldn't want to be him, because much suffering will result from this kind of genius, but wouldn't it be cool to be this kid's best friend?

[AngryAmish]

20. Search youtube for coil gun or mass drivers

Some hobbyists have been making them.

[havocmom]

5. Neighborhood Watch meetings are gonna get interesting there

[liberal N proud]

7. Boys will be boys?

At least that is what one would have said many years ago.

Now, they will brand the kid as a terrorist and take his parents for everything they have.


I remember as a kid, doing shit like that, but we lived in a small town and knew enough to take that kind of stuff away from any population.

[Thothmes]

21. Have to agree

When I was a youngster, use to make gun powder & tried to make other explosives. Nothing sinister, wasnt planning to blow anything up of value. Just intellectual curiosity. Most of my explosive creations were trying to make solid fuel rocket motors. Actually got some to work pretty well.

[Xipe Totec]

9. That could have been me...

Built a cannon out of a kelly tester....

Enough power to punch a hole through a 2" pine board, using nothing but paper as a projectile.

[triple point]

11. It's pretty impressive what you can do with a piece of 1/2" pipe, a marble and a

cherry bomb.

:D

[8 track mind]

18. True. they don't make cherry bombs like they used to though. n/t

[Xipe Totec]

25. The miracle is that the pipe didn't "blossom"

A kelly tester is used for hydrostatic testing of drilling equipment, so it is as strong or stronger than the steel used for gun barrels. Regular half-inch pipe, on the other hand, is not rated for such high pressures. The pipe could have blown up like a hand greande.

The kid was really lucky.

(as was I, for that mater...)

[Canuckistanian]

13. The neighbor seems to be fairly nonchalant about the event

"A lot of power, pretty impressive."

[Liberal_in_LA]

23. he does

[tridim]

14. I ruined my neighbors A/C unit with a homemade blowgun

I felt like shit for doing it, but had no idea our little plastic Q-Tip & wire darts could pierce freon tubing. Oops.

[KamaAina]

15. Did I do that?

[Donald Ian Rankin]

16. I note that the article carefully doesn't specify the type of device...

I presume they don't want to encourage imitators.

[Vickers]

17. Indoor trebuchet?

:shrug:

[Toasterlad]

19. I Believe The Gun Has Already Been Invented

Why would we need another device that "can shoot objects at high speed"?

[Liberal_in_LA]

24. "created an invention that can shoot objects at high speed", sounds like he invented the gun