IN FAYETTE COUNTY, THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE POLICE have charged a man with accidentally firing a 2-lb. cannonball through the wall of a neighbor’s home.
William Edward Maser, 54, fired the cannon in his yard Wednesday evening. It is a replica of a type of cannon used during the French and Indian war that Maser demonstrates at battle re-enactment programs. When he fired the 80-pounder cannon Wednesday though, the 2-lb. lead ball struck a rock in the field causing it to ricochet and sent it into the neighboring house, going through a window, then an interior wall and landing in a clothes closet.
The police are classifying it as an accident, but they still charged Maser with reckless endangerment, criminal mischief and disorderly conflict. And they impounded his cannon to be held as evidence.
WPXI-TV Ch. 11 Pittsburgh has some video of the cannon and the damages:
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