13 Woman Killed by Cannon Fire
Things nobody worries about dying from since the turn of the 20th century:
Polio
Geetting run over by a horse-drawn carriage
The Plague
Dragons
Cannon fire
Oh, wait. Cannon fire: back on the list.
Here’s 38-year-old Jeannette Fay Ogara, hanging out in a trailer park in a town outside of San Diego near the US-Mexico border, chilling with some friends in her mobile home while her boyfriend, Richard Fox, gets drunk with a buddy outside while playing with fireworks. Winning combo.
Little does Ogara know that the boyfriend is dumping the gunpowder from the fireworks into a homemade cannon. A cannon. Yes, Uzis and flamethrowers be damned, this special guy was on a mountainside building a weapon that enjoyed its heyday in the US during the Civil War.
When construction of the cannon had finished, Fox lit the device, which immediately exploded, sending a cannon ball and large pieces of shrapnel rocketing through the sides of the trailer, right through his girlfriend, killing her almost instantly.
The boyfriend was treated at a local hospital before being taken into police custody. Several adults and a 4-year-old child who were also in the mobile home when the cannon went off went unharmed.
