Lived to be 81, ngl i thought he would ahve died from internal injuries before that kind of age, also he only got shot like that twice per day as any more was too painful https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Richards_(performer)
Glorified air gun, running on compressed air, not smokeless powder. 104 pound ball fired from artillery would have distributed Frank across a wide area on concussion alone.
Snowman25
This footage is AI-colorized and it severly irks me how the colors sometimes pop and change
DrewThe3DPrinterGuy
This is what more cushion for the pushin means, right?
Shaows
zer0vector
constellanation5
Homer Simpson, smiling politely
SamStrawbs
No spicy foods, no cannonballs! And if you're laying down drinking a beer, please for the love of God, rest the can on your chest or genitals!
swedeonamoose
Lived to be 81, ngl i thought he would ahve died from internal injuries before that kind of age, also he only got shot like that twice per day as any more was too painful https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Richards_(performer)
whoatherebigfella
I’d barely be able to handle once a day.
RichardPenne
A stunt like this is what killed Houdini (well, that and an inflamed appendix that burst after the stunt) - https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2020/03/11/did-houdini-really-die-after-being-sucker-punched/#:~:text=It%20wasn't%20until%20the,on%20an%20anti%2DSpiritualist%20crusade.
SpicyGoober
Holy shit I thought this was just a 1 time record thing. No he ONLY got shot twice a day
0xBADA55
I’m pretty sure that cannon isn’t at full blast, not that I would try it that way either
swedeonamoose
Considering what full blast does to armor at range, yea.
danshouldbeworkingnow
Glorified air gun, running on compressed air, not smokeless powder. 104 pound ball fired from artillery would have distributed Frank across a wide area on concussion alone.
0xBADA55
missed the heart .. lucky bastard
speedislife
Allegedly the guy who owned the armor was getting married so it was his brother who died, so someone was really lucky. https://www.napoleon.org/en/history-of-the-two-empires/objects/carabiniers-breastplate-from-the-waterloo-battlefield/
Letstrythisonemotime
I know it's wrong, but part of me wanted to see a canon ball just tear a hole straight through him to see the look on his face of
foreverinchains
It was a compressed air cannon. An actual naval cannon would have killed him and anyone in a line behind him for a mile or two.
WorkerLurker
Even a black powder land artillery cannon would. Air compression is much less energy behind the ball. This close of combat is what grape shot was for.
foreverinchains
Sure, but this isn't combat.
It's performance.
Y'know, for funzies.