He Shoots, He Scores

With a pumpkin right into the CSUF scoreboard:

When Discovery Science Center educators coined their event Saturday morning a ''pumpkin launch," they weren't kidding.

In an engineering experiment gone awry, a pumpkin shot from a makeshift cannon catapulted more than 120 yards across Titan Stadium at Cal State Fullerton, crashing through the scoreboard.

A team of college engineering students, called "Students without Borders,'' had built a cannon (which they named Pumpkin Lobber) that used pressurized air to shoot the pumpkin, said Keith Brush, a director of education at the Discovery Science Center.

The team was aiming at two plywood targets about 50 yards away.

Instead, the pumpkin flew above the targets, striking the scoreboard that sits atop the stadium. An estimate of the damage is not known yet.

"They had no idea how far it was going to go,'' Brush said. "You know with engineering projects, they usually don't work out the first time."

Do they still do math in engineering school? Seems like someone forgot to carry the "1".

UPDATE: Photos here.