{"id":59202,"date":"2015-04-10T20:23:13","date_gmt":"2015-04-11T00:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=59202"},"modified":"2015-04-10T20:25:02","modified_gmt":"2015-04-11T00:25:02","slug":"the-best-laid-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=59202","title":{"rendered":"The Best Laid Plans…"},"content":{"rendered":"

First and foremost, nobody was physically hurt in this incident, but I gotta believe that there WAS some fervent finger pointing in the aftermath.<\/p>\n

Warwick Castle cannonball show sets fire to medieval boathouse.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

“Hundreds of tourists have been evacuated from Warwick Castle<\/a> after a burning cannonball fired from the world’s largest working siege machine destroyed a medieval boathouse by fire. “<\/em><\/p>\n

Okay, I’ll admit a certain ignorance of medieval “cannons”, but I have never considered a trebuchet to be a cannon? My personal experience begins and ends with 5in Naval Guns. Regardless, we’re talking cannonballs.<\/p>\n

And the “cover-up” begins… “A spokesperson for Warwick Castle said the trebuchet would continue firing shots but only dry ones rather than fireballs until the investigation into the blaze is completed. “<\/em><\/p>\n

I dunno… if the shooters can make this kind of mistake – what difference does it make. The verbal depiction in the article that viewers had to be evacuated which suggests they were downrange:<\/p>\n

“There was a lot of panic and people were scrambling up the bank because they had no idea if the fire would spread.”<\/em><\/p>\n

“The place was packed with lots of young children and families. We were all evacuated and it was quite scary.”<\/em><\/p>\n

So the tourists\/fans were in a position to be threatened?<\/p>\n

Just struck me as odd. YMMV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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