Another one that I just don’t quite know how I missed it…

Lisa Kroll felt her house shake on July 4th of last year, and assumed it was neighbors lighting off fireworks. When she went to her barn the next day, she found out it was something…slightly different.

In her barn, she discovered a bowling ball had gone through the roof–and apparently struck a 10-month old horse in the head and killed it. She found six more bowling balls and three bowling pins in her field. Estimated damages to the barn were $4,000, and the horse was valued at $10,000.

Turns out, one of her neighbors had a little get together, which included a guest bringing a homemade cannon, from which they shot a total of 10 bowling balls and 10 bowling pins out of. For ‘merica.

He admitted that he had shot the cannon, and was sorry that the ordinance made it to Kroll’s property–nearly a half mile away. Still, Ricky Thorne of Spring Valley, Wisconsin, is lucky that he only faced charges of recklessly endangering safety and negligent handling of a weapon–Kroll had guests sleeping in campers outside the barn.

St. Croix County Attorney Eric Johnson said in 34 years of prosecuting cases, it was the first time he had a case of someone shooting bowling balls out of a cannon–although, likely not the first cannon related incident he’s seen.