And a disaster happens. http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/06/10592596-calif-woman-killed-by-homemade-cannon Homicide investigators with the San Diego County Sheriff's Department are on the scene of a bizarre death in San Diego's East County. Deputies say a man called 911 to report his wife may have been killed with a homemade cannon by accident. Investigators along with U.S. Border Patrol agents responded to Potrero Valley Road around 12:30 a.m. Tuesday. Two men were working on the cannon outside the home in the Twin Lakes Resort mobile home park when it fired, sending a projectile into the home.