Comments on: Episode 84: Viewers’ Choice Special

By: Fred

Fred — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 17:03:13 +0000

This was an SOP when I went thru drivers ED in 1980. We had to stop our car in less than 50 yards by throwing car in REVERSE… I was really bummed when I saw this episode…Epic Fail!

From what I saw in the show, they just dumped it in reverse and the engine stalled. During drivers Ed, we were instructed to come out of drive, match RPMs in Neutral and then feather the gas pedal to hold tires in place against forward motion. When you came to a stop you would throw it in PARK!…lots of smoking rubber and grinding, but it works! God those instructors were crazy!

By: Don Howison

Don Howison — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 19:32:23 +0000

My wife is always onto me to wind the clthes line up as she reckons the clothes will dry quicker if it is wound to it’s highest position. I claim it won’t make any difference. What do you think? Has this myth ever been tested?

By: MSpears

MSpears — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:52:39 +0000

To score a penetrating wound, however, *does* require something in the barrel. It was a so-called “blank” that killed the actor Jon-Eric Hexum.

For those who don’t know, a blank still has a paper or plastic wadding to seal the gunpowder into the cartridge, and Hexum was pressing the gun barrel right against his temple. (Nobody had told him that blanks can still be dangerous, and he was bored due to a delay in filming. Basically he thought he was playing a harmless game.)

At that range, aimed at a vulnerable spot on the body (e.g. the temple or an eye), the wadding can be ejected with enough force to cause severe trauma or even death.

By: MSpears

MSpears — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 10:47:19 +0000

In order:
(1) Yes, theoretically.
(2) Yes, with a glass cutter or other similar tool.
(3) Yes… you go to a computer store or order a touch-screen monitor online, and install the drivers on your “regular” computer.

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 18:20:58 +0000

the point was not to cause any damage at all…………….

By: Daan

Daan — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 18:05:53 +0000

I was wondering about the cigarettes butt kill.
When you shoot a gun at that close range I don’t think you need anything in the barrel. The pressure of the expanding gas from that range is enough the do significant damage.

By: Richie

Richie — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 13:53:36 +0000

the tennis ball lock pick does work they made the mistake of doing the experiment on a car fitted with mechanical locks if they had used a car with pneumatic locks ie Mk3 golf or early ford escorts they would have succeeded.

By: Helmut

Helmut — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 10:11:45 +0000

Different results for different cars for: By cutting a hole in a tennis ball, one can squeeze the ball and the resulting air pressure can unlock a car door

A similar test was conducted in Germany by the Galileo team (a TV show somewhat slightly similar to Mythbusters) at the Pro7 channel. The results proved that the early 1990s models of Volkswagen and Audi with vacuum operated central locking systems indeed could be opened with a rtennis ball. Since the car thieves found that out quite fast, this locking systems has been replaced with more “traditional” systems very soon by the car manufacturers.

By: jason

jason — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 14:46:41 +0000

lol that would be a good one, but i don’t think they would ever air that due to how contraversial it would be. it would be the equivalent of testing the IQ of blacks vs whites

By: zlatte

zlatte — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 15:34:10 +0000

Firstly I would like to say hi love your show, any way I have a myth for you:
-There is no statistical evidence ever recorded that blond women are with a lower IQ (dumber)then all of the rest.
I think this would be a great Myth to be busted….. OR NOT? :)
Hit me back with your decision, bye bye…