Mythbusters does an oopsy

[LynnInDenver]

The only long term repercussions I see from this is that the Mythbusters will have to find a new bomb range to blow shit up from.
Which will suck cuz the one they already used loved the publicity they got.

I doubt that will happen. The EOD guy seemed really low-key about it, and he was probably one of the guys on-site when it went off. I suspect there may be some heightened precautions, but no one in that news segment seemed particularly concerned about the damage, except for maybe the news caster, and they get paid to make mountains out of molehills. I see an out-of-court settlement on the damage, heightened safety measures on their munitions experiments, and a public apology from the team and Discovery.

I do expect that some people - no necessarily residents of that neighborhood - will make lots of noise, go to Alameda County to ask that the Mythbusters be banned completely from the bomb range, and perhaps even try to file an endangerment lawsuit or pass laws banning their activities at the bomb range. This is, of course, assuming that the Mythbusters decide that the bomb range is the best place to do some of their tests, even if they keep it to non-projectile objects.

I do expect that they'll try to do more out in that flat desert location if they still have access to it, though.
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