1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,280 On this episode of MythFusters, get ready to saddle up and ride out. 2 00:00:08,280 --> 00:00:12,220 We put Old Westmeth's to the test. 3 00:00:12,220 --> 00:00:18,800 Adam and Jamie are given the OK to corral some classic cowboy capers. 4 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:22,640 Can you take someone's hat off with a bullet? 5 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:26,480 Can you bust your buddy out of jail with old fashioned horsepower? 6 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:30,560 Or do you need something with a little more kick? 7 00:00:30,560 --> 00:00:32,680 Danger, warning, warning. 8 00:00:32,680 --> 00:00:34,040 Three, two, one. 9 00:00:34,040 --> 00:00:40,120 Meanwhile, Carri-Torre and Grant are on a collision course 10 00:00:40,120 --> 00:00:41,800 with a modern motoring myth. 11 00:00:41,800 --> 00:00:42,680 Are you getting frustrated? 12 00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:44,160 Frustration, yes. 13 00:00:44,160 --> 00:00:48,400 Can an airbag turn a lock bag into a skull-cleaving spear? 14 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:56,400 Who are the MythFusters? 15 00:00:56,400 --> 00:00:57,400 Adam Savage. 16 00:00:57,400 --> 00:00:59,440 Dangerous, my middle name. 17 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:00,600 And Jamie Heineman. 18 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:03,760 The behavior we're going to make you into a coat. 19 00:01:03,760 --> 00:01:06,880 Between them, over 30 years, special effects experience. 20 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:09,600 Yeah! 21 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:11,720 Joining them, Tori Belachie. 22 00:01:11,720 --> 00:01:13,040 Now bang it up, bang it up, bang it up. 23 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:14,040 Carri Byron. 24 00:01:14,040 --> 00:01:15,640 Don't try what you're about to see at home. 25 00:01:15,640 --> 00:01:17,440 And Grant Imahara. 26 00:01:17,440 --> 00:01:18,960 He's alive! 27 00:01:18,960 --> 00:01:21,760 They don't just tell the myths. 28 00:01:21,760 --> 00:01:23,360 They put them to the test. 29 00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:35,520 Now that's what I call a quick drop. 30 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:37,480 Adam, what are you doing? 31 00:01:37,480 --> 00:01:42,320 What do we got? 32 00:01:42,320 --> 00:01:43,960 Well, it looks like you already know. 33 00:01:43,960 --> 00:01:45,560 We've got wild west myths. 34 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:46,560 Excellent. 35 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:47,560 Like what? 36 00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:49,840 Well, like in you shoot somebody's hat off with a gun. 37 00:01:49,840 --> 00:01:50,840 You're going to shoot my hat off? 38 00:01:50,840 --> 00:01:52,840 I'm going to shoot your hat off. 39 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:54,680 Oh, can we break out of jail? 40 00:01:54,680 --> 00:01:55,680 That's the other one. 41 00:01:55,680 --> 00:01:57,280 Yes, I've always wanted to do that. 42 00:01:57,280 --> 00:01:58,280 Yippee-ki-yay. 43 00:01:58,280 --> 00:02:03,600 You wanted to see Adam and Jamie strap on their chaps? 44 00:02:03,600 --> 00:02:05,720 So you got it. 45 00:02:05,720 --> 00:02:10,800 The guys are going to circle the wagons and throw themselves into busting some frontier 46 00:02:10,800 --> 00:02:13,800 style fables. 47 00:02:13,800 --> 00:02:16,680 Alright, so which one do we start with? 48 00:02:16,680 --> 00:02:18,920 Let's start with the hats. 49 00:02:18,920 --> 00:02:22,040 It's perhaps the most famous wild west cliché. 50 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:24,920 As predictable as a stouch and a salute. 51 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:30,320 Right in the middle of some western movie mayhem, a shot is fired and a cowboy's hat 52 00:02:30,320 --> 00:02:32,360 is gone with the wind. 53 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:36,440 Is it true grit or just Hollywood gun smoke and mirrors? 54 00:02:36,440 --> 00:02:41,720 Okay, I can see us needing some period correct hats, some period correct guns and period 55 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:42,720 correct ammo. 56 00:02:42,720 --> 00:02:45,320 Okay, well, I'll track down the guns in the ammo. 57 00:02:45,320 --> 00:02:47,840 Why don't you deal with the hats? 58 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:49,520 Adam's got a fist full of dollars. 59 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:51,160 He's going to do just that. 60 00:02:51,400 --> 00:02:56,120 We've come to the expert, Bill, here at Golden Gate Western Ware in Pleasant Hill, California, 61 00:02:56,120 --> 00:02:58,760 should be able to answer all of my questions. 62 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:03,280 Bill's hats match those worn by cowboys in the late 19th century. 63 00:03:03,280 --> 00:03:07,920 Back in that golden age, hats were made from wool or beaver felt. 64 00:03:07,920 --> 00:03:11,960 It was a time when men were men. 65 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:14,040 Beavers were nervous. 66 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:17,760 But this is a style that was the most popular cowboy hat. 67 00:03:17,760 --> 00:03:18,760 This was. 68 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:19,760 1870s, 1880s. 69 00:03:20,760 --> 00:03:24,920 Bill's even got a replica of the Duke's own crowning glory. 70 00:03:24,920 --> 00:03:26,920 The hell I want them. 71 00:03:26,920 --> 00:03:29,360 And this is typical of what John Wayne wore. 72 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:30,360 And we've stained it. 73 00:03:30,360 --> 00:03:32,280 We've got the cowboy cord on there just like this. 74 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:34,520 And you notice it's a very tall crown. 75 00:03:34,520 --> 00:03:35,520 Yeah. 76 00:03:35,520 --> 00:03:36,520 Substantial felt. 77 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:37,520 It's beautiful. 78 00:03:37,520 --> 00:03:40,080 So it gives you a big target in the top there. 79 00:03:43,840 --> 00:03:49,000 After posing as a hat stand, Adam chooses eight classic cowboy hats. 80 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:52,160 Or wool for beaver. 81 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:56,920 But as keen as he is to try them on, he's decided he won't be under them when the bullets 82 00:03:56,920 --> 00:03:57,920 start blasting. 83 00:03:57,920 --> 00:03:58,920 Not that I don't trust you. 84 00:03:58,920 --> 00:04:02,600 I know you're a good shot, but I don't want to let you shoot a hat off my head. 85 00:04:02,600 --> 00:04:04,360 I think we should have a ballistic material head. 86 00:04:04,360 --> 00:04:07,640 And I think that both Grant and I have done our service as cast heads. 87 00:04:07,640 --> 00:04:10,720 And it's time to make a mold of your head. 88 00:04:10,720 --> 00:04:13,760 I got no problem with that. 89 00:04:13,880 --> 00:04:19,080 Jamie takes a seat on the casting couch while Adam prepares to tire and feather him. 90 00:04:19,080 --> 00:04:22,520 This is basically the same stuff that the dentist uses to cast her teeth. 91 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:24,600 It's seaweed-based. 92 00:04:24,600 --> 00:04:25,600 Waters the binder. 93 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:27,400 This is going to get drippy. 94 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:28,400 You ready? 95 00:04:28,400 --> 00:04:31,840 So come on over here, Jess. 96 00:04:31,840 --> 00:04:34,800 And help me keep it up on Jamie. 97 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:37,680 It's like it's going to drip down past his shoulders. 98 00:04:37,680 --> 00:04:39,480 Don't get it near his mouth. 99 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:41,840 The alginate goes on like campfire beans. 100 00:04:41,840 --> 00:04:43,600 Are you doing your left eye, Jamie? 101 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:46,440 Obviously his mouth is left uncovered so he can breathe. 102 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:50,360 He's like the incredible melting man. 103 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:53,440 It's an uncomfortable, claustrophobic process. 104 00:04:53,440 --> 00:04:58,320 He has to spend nearly half an hour cocooned in his seaweed face mask. 105 00:04:58,320 --> 00:05:01,720 I'm going to slice up the back of your head. 106 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:04,560 Here it goes. 107 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:06,440 We're going to start peeling this off. 108 00:05:06,440 --> 00:05:08,160 Oh, oh, oh, it's good. 109 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:09,160 It's good. 110 00:05:09,160 --> 00:05:10,160 Is it moving? 111 00:05:10,160 --> 00:05:11,160 Uh-huh. 112 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:12,160 Watch clear his ears. 113 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:13,160 Excellent. 114 00:05:13,200 --> 00:05:15,200 Ears off here. 115 00:05:15,200 --> 00:05:16,680 And you're free. 116 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:17,680 Excellent. 117 00:05:17,680 --> 00:05:19,400 You can go get cleaned up. 118 00:05:19,400 --> 00:05:22,760 That was kind of unpleasant. 119 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:27,400 The alginate deteriorates quickly and Adam has to race the clock to get the ballistic 120 00:05:27,400 --> 00:05:29,840 bust finished. 121 00:05:29,840 --> 00:05:32,400 But a few cracks are starting to appear. 122 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:36,160 This whole thing has gone crazy on me. 123 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:41,400 With time running out, he sticks them all together using silicon and straps. 124 00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:42,800 Complete failure. 125 00:05:42,840 --> 00:05:48,760 All the king's horses and all the king's men won't be able to rescue Adam this time. 126 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:52,680 As he pours the molten ballistics gel, the mold cracks like an egg. 127 00:05:52,680 --> 00:05:55,400 You want to get me some foil tape? 128 00:05:55,400 --> 00:05:56,920 And the yoke's on him. 129 00:05:56,920 --> 00:06:01,160 Pretty much total, total failure in every way possible. 130 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:03,960 I haven't felt this badly in a long time. 131 00:06:03,960 --> 00:06:05,680 It's all right, Adam. 132 00:06:05,680 --> 00:06:08,920 It's been said that when they made Jamie, they broke the mold. 133 00:06:08,920 --> 00:06:11,480 You've just gone and done it again. 134 00:06:11,480 --> 00:06:14,320 It's sort of a been a big wasted effort as far as I'm concerned. 135 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:16,320 The casting was no good. 136 00:06:16,320 --> 00:06:18,360 The mold is no good. 137 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:19,760 It's like nothing's any good. 138 00:06:19,760 --> 00:06:20,760 Adam knows how to do it. 139 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:23,000 He just didn't do it in this case. 140 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:24,000 That's not too terribly mean. 141 00:06:24,000 --> 00:06:28,960 No, that's exactly what I probably would say. 142 00:06:28,960 --> 00:06:33,720 So now it'll be Grant's battered ballistics bust after all staring down the barrel of 143 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:35,560 this cowboy myth. 144 00:06:35,560 --> 00:06:38,480 All right, let's cut. 145 00:06:41,480 --> 00:06:44,600 Now it's over to the good, the bad, and the ugly. 146 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:46,640 I'll let you decide who's who. 147 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:49,800 OK, so lockpick of death, what is that? 148 00:06:49,800 --> 00:06:51,720 This one's actually an airbag myth. 149 00:06:51,720 --> 00:06:56,280 The scenario is a guy is breaking into a car using one of those flat lockpicks, triggers 150 00:06:56,280 --> 00:06:57,600 the side airbag. 151 00:06:57,600 --> 00:07:03,000 The airbag explodes, launching the lockpick through a skull. 152 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:04,360 Sweet. 153 00:07:04,360 --> 00:07:05,360 Sweet. 154 00:07:06,360 --> 00:07:12,200 It's another story from that font of urban legend, the famous Mythbusters fan sign. 155 00:07:12,200 --> 00:07:16,000 A would-be car thief is using a lockpick to break into a car. 156 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:21,400 While poking around inside the door, he unwittingly triggers the side airbag, which expands with 157 00:07:21,400 --> 00:07:26,440 such force the lockpick becomes a missile and the thief suddenly finds himself picking 158 00:07:26,440 --> 00:07:29,080 his own brain. 159 00:07:29,080 --> 00:07:34,680 And ready for a mythbuster tale full of exploding airbags. 160 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:35,680 Skull Duggery. 161 00:07:35,680 --> 00:07:37,920 As long as they're legal, we're happy. 162 00:07:37,920 --> 00:07:38,920 And Udon Noodles. 163 00:07:38,920 --> 00:07:41,840 That looks a little like brain, doesn't it? 164 00:07:41,840 --> 00:07:45,760 Well, I think we should learn first of all how to pick a car lock to either of you know 165 00:07:45,760 --> 00:07:47,600 how to do that already. 166 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:48,600 No. 167 00:07:48,600 --> 00:07:53,560 Well, short of getting a criminal, I think maybe we should see if a fireman can help us 168 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:57,280 out, because I know they have to pick locks to get into cars. 169 00:07:57,280 --> 00:08:00,160 The guys are going on a fact-finding mission. 170 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:02,560 We need to learn how to use a lockpick and we hear you can teach us. 171 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:05,040 Well, we do have some cars over here and we do have some tools. 172 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:06,640 Let's see if we can actually get in. 173 00:08:06,640 --> 00:08:07,640 Excellent. 174 00:08:07,640 --> 00:08:08,640 Let's do it. 175 00:08:08,640 --> 00:08:13,960 At the Liverbore Pleasant and Fire Department's training facility, firemen do take lockpicking 176 00:08:13,960 --> 00:08:15,040 lessons. 177 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:19,440 And while we're not allowed to show you how it's done, the Mythbusters take careful note 178 00:08:19,440 --> 00:08:20,440 of the technique. 179 00:08:20,440 --> 00:08:22,560 All right, Matt, you want to give it a shot? 180 00:08:22,560 --> 00:08:23,560 Sure. 181 00:08:23,560 --> 00:08:27,760 You are leaning directly over the lockpick as you're trying to get in the car. 182 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:32,960 It's worth noting too that these guys don't practice this on vehicles with side airbags, 183 00:08:32,960 --> 00:08:33,960 just in case. 184 00:08:33,960 --> 00:08:37,760 I mean, if you were leaning over that tool and the airbag went off, I could see how 185 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:40,400 that thing would launch up into your neck. 186 00:08:40,400 --> 00:08:44,920 This demonstration shows that a person using a lockpick would be in the correct position 187 00:08:44,920 --> 00:08:45,920 to be impaled. 188 00:08:45,920 --> 00:08:47,920 He's almost got it. 189 00:08:47,920 --> 00:08:48,920 Hey! 190 00:08:48,920 --> 00:08:49,920 I got it. 191 00:08:49,920 --> 00:08:50,920 Excellent. 192 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:55,600 You can really go off with a big enough bang to send that tool through your skull. 193 00:08:55,600 --> 00:09:00,880 We have a driver's airbag out of a small vehicle, and I put a traffic cone on it so we can see 194 00:09:00,880 --> 00:09:03,880 it a little bit better going up in the air, and we're going to launch it. 195 00:09:03,880 --> 00:09:07,880 Do not try this at home. 196 00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:09,880 The airbag's rigged for remote ignition. 197 00:09:09,880 --> 00:09:10,880 Everybody ready? 198 00:09:10,880 --> 00:09:11,880 Hey, we're ready. 199 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:12,880 All right. 200 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:13,880 Three, two, one. 201 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:14,880 Run! 202 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:16,840 Run! 203 00:09:16,840 --> 00:09:17,840 Good shot! 204 00:09:17,840 --> 00:09:28,880 The leading edge of this bag is coming at you about 500 miles an hour. 205 00:09:28,880 --> 00:09:33,400 It's deploying in about a quarter of a millisecond, and it deflates almost immediately. 206 00:09:33,400 --> 00:09:35,640 These are the airbags that come out of the steering wheel. 207 00:09:35,640 --> 00:09:40,280 Now, what are the difference between these and the side ones that come out of the door? 208 00:09:40,280 --> 00:09:43,680 Side airbags would be deploying about four times faster than these are. 209 00:09:43,680 --> 00:09:46,680 Now, that we got to see. 210 00:09:46,680 --> 00:09:49,680 Three, two, one. 211 00:09:49,680 --> 00:09:52,680 Yes! 212 00:09:52,680 --> 00:09:54,680 That cone's out of the park. 213 00:09:54,680 --> 00:09:57,680 That was fantastic. 214 00:09:57,680 --> 00:09:59,680 Yes! 215 00:09:59,680 --> 00:10:01,680 Got any more of those? 216 00:10:01,680 --> 00:10:02,680 I wish. 217 00:10:02,680 --> 00:10:03,680 That was cool. 218 00:10:03,680 --> 00:10:06,680 How cool was that? 219 00:10:06,680 --> 00:10:10,680 I mean, those airbags must have shot the cones like 50 feet in the air. 220 00:10:10,680 --> 00:10:14,840 Yeah, that's because technically they are explosives, which is ironic because they're 221 00:10:14,840 --> 00:10:17,180 meant to save your life, but they go off right in your face. 222 00:10:17,180 --> 00:10:20,680 But what happens is sensors on the car detect a crash. 223 00:10:20,680 --> 00:10:27,680 They ignite the airbag, which inflates a nylon fabric bag full of gas in a split second. 224 00:10:27,680 --> 00:10:33,680 One thing's for sure, these firefighters have failed to hose down speculation about this myth. 225 00:10:33,680 --> 00:10:34,680 These things are powerful. 226 00:10:34,680 --> 00:10:37,680 I mean, I could see how this whole thing might work. 227 00:10:37,680 --> 00:10:38,680 All right, let's get going. 228 00:10:38,680 --> 00:10:41,680 I think we can get some lockpicks on the way home. 229 00:10:41,680 --> 00:10:44,680 Still to come, Carrie finds out choosing a skull's a skill. 230 00:10:44,680 --> 00:10:48,680 Why don't we wrap up the fat head and I'll take it to go. 231 00:10:48,680 --> 00:10:49,680 And after the break. 232 00:10:49,680 --> 00:10:52,680 Is your gun big enough to shoot my hat off? 233 00:11:01,680 --> 00:11:07,680 When a cowboy's hat takes a bullet in Hollywood, it takes flight like a startled bird. 234 00:11:07,680 --> 00:11:14,680 Does the science stack up or are those hats flying in the face of physics? 235 00:11:14,680 --> 00:11:17,680 Our own Butch and Sundance aim to find out. 236 00:11:17,680 --> 00:11:18,680 Are you ready? 237 00:11:18,680 --> 00:11:24,680 As we know, the mythbusters always feel right at home on the range. 238 00:11:24,680 --> 00:11:25,680 What happened? 239 00:11:25,680 --> 00:11:27,680 He must be Frank. 240 00:11:27,680 --> 00:11:28,680 That's my name. 241 00:11:28,680 --> 00:11:32,680 Frank Tabor is a Wild West firearms aficionado. 242 00:11:32,680 --> 00:11:34,680 Good morning, Jim. 243 00:11:34,680 --> 00:11:38,680 Frank's wagon contains an arsenal of archaic weapons. 244 00:11:38,680 --> 00:11:44,680 This is a 44-40 Colt, an 18-88 manufacturer, Smith and Wesson Top Bracelet. 245 00:11:44,680 --> 00:11:45,680 This is a Colt pump lightning. 246 00:11:45,680 --> 00:11:47,680 This one's about 1900. 247 00:11:47,680 --> 00:11:49,680 Has anyone ever shot your head off? 248 00:11:49,680 --> 00:11:54,680 One time I was at a competition and my hat blew down range and everybody online shot it to pieces. 249 00:11:54,680 --> 00:11:56,680 I just blew it up. 250 00:11:56,680 --> 00:12:02,680 Frank has got so many options for us from long-round, short-rounds, black powder, smokeless rifles. 251 00:12:02,680 --> 00:12:03,680 Let's do it. 252 00:12:04,680 --> 00:12:11,680 Our Hollywood hard guys use handguns, so Adam and Jamie select an 1860 Army Colt revolver. 253 00:12:11,680 --> 00:12:15,680 If that doesn't work, they'll try a Winchester lever action rifle. 254 00:12:15,680 --> 00:12:16,680 I love that. 255 00:12:16,680 --> 00:12:18,680 The weapons are authentic. 256 00:12:18,680 --> 00:12:23,680 The eight target hats match those worn by real cowboys in the real Wild West. 257 00:12:23,680 --> 00:12:25,680 Nice high crown. 258 00:12:25,680 --> 00:12:26,680 Should be easy to shoot and miss the hat. 259 00:12:26,680 --> 00:12:27,680 You ready? 260 00:12:27,680 --> 00:12:28,680 Yeah, let's do it. 261 00:12:28,680 --> 00:12:31,680 That's pretty darn good. 262 00:12:31,680 --> 00:12:32,680 All right. 263 00:12:32,680 --> 00:12:33,680 You want to take the first shot? 264 00:12:33,680 --> 00:12:34,680 Sure. 265 00:12:34,680 --> 00:12:37,680 First up, the oldest firearm, the revolver. 266 00:12:37,680 --> 00:12:39,680 Range is hot. 267 00:12:42,680 --> 00:12:44,680 That was perfect, right through the top. 268 00:12:44,680 --> 00:12:45,680 Didn't take it off. 269 00:12:45,680 --> 00:12:48,680 No, it cocked it a little bit to the side. 270 00:12:48,680 --> 00:12:52,680 The bullet left the muzzle at 750 feet per second. 271 00:12:52,680 --> 00:12:55,680 In bullet terms, that's not fast. 272 00:12:55,680 --> 00:13:00,680 But it was still fast enough to drill a neat hole straight through the frame. 273 00:13:00,680 --> 00:13:02,680 You got a lot of leverage out of that. 274 00:13:02,680 --> 00:13:05,680 See, the bullet went in here and tore out through the top. 275 00:13:05,680 --> 00:13:08,680 Again, it was moving a lot of material. 276 00:13:08,680 --> 00:13:11,680 Okay, here comes the Winchester. 277 00:13:17,680 --> 00:13:18,680 Nice shot. 278 00:13:18,680 --> 00:13:21,680 Look at that, right through the center. 279 00:13:21,680 --> 00:13:23,680 That did not budge the hat. 280 00:13:23,680 --> 00:13:25,680 It could not be a more perfect shot. 281 00:13:25,680 --> 00:13:31,680 The hat didn't take off, but it's way too early to call it busted. 282 00:13:32,680 --> 00:13:36,680 This is the Charles Bronson Once Upon a Time in the West hat. 283 00:13:36,680 --> 00:13:37,680 You ready? 284 00:13:37,680 --> 00:13:38,680 Ready. 285 00:13:38,680 --> 00:13:40,680 Range is hot. 286 00:13:41,680 --> 00:13:43,680 Hey! 287 00:13:43,680 --> 00:13:45,680 You knocked that off! 288 00:13:46,680 --> 00:13:47,680 Hang on, guys. 289 00:13:47,680 --> 00:13:49,680 Let's see the movie footage again. 290 00:13:49,680 --> 00:13:52,680 Bullets send these hats sky high. 291 00:13:54,680 --> 00:13:57,680 Jamie's shot was slightly less spectacular. 292 00:13:57,680 --> 00:13:59,680 Your hit could not have been more perfect. 293 00:13:59,680 --> 00:14:02,680 You went through more material of that hat than any of our hits before. 294 00:14:02,680 --> 00:14:07,680 You went through the brim, through the brim, through the brim, and through the brim. 295 00:14:07,680 --> 00:14:10,680 Yeah, but it kind of fell off sideways. 296 00:14:10,680 --> 00:14:13,680 But if you're the guy wearing this hat and someone shoots at you, 297 00:14:13,680 --> 00:14:15,680 you're going to say he shot my hat off. 298 00:14:15,680 --> 00:14:16,680 Spurred on. 299 00:14:16,680 --> 00:14:17,680 Find the red lady. 300 00:14:17,680 --> 00:14:19,680 Find the red lady and pay us $20. 301 00:14:19,680 --> 00:14:23,680 Our gunslingers take pot shots at their whole hat collection. 302 00:14:30,680 --> 00:14:33,680 Right between the eyes. 303 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:39,680 But those brims hardly budge. 304 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:41,680 And the reason is simple. 305 00:14:41,680 --> 00:14:46,680 When it strikes the hat, a small projectile traveling at around a thousand feet per second 306 00:14:46,680 --> 00:14:51,680 doesn't encounter enough resistance and rips straight through the material. 307 00:14:51,680 --> 00:14:56,680 So the question is, what does it take to flip the lid on this myth? 308 00:14:56,680 --> 00:15:00,680 Time to pelt the felt with something a little more powerful. 309 00:15:06,680 --> 00:15:09,680 Now that's more like what we see on the silver screen. 310 00:15:09,680 --> 00:15:14,680 Old pelts went in here. Old pelts came out there. 311 00:15:14,680 --> 00:15:20,680 The bird shot sprays out at a slower speed, striking a larger surface area. 312 00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:24,680 The force is enough to make hat and head part company. 313 00:15:24,680 --> 00:15:27,680 And there's one tiny problem. 314 00:15:27,680 --> 00:15:30,680 But it doesn't quite leave you able to tell the tale. 315 00:15:33,680 --> 00:15:35,680 Looks like he's got an acne problem right now. 316 00:15:35,680 --> 00:15:36,680 Oh, crap. 317 00:15:36,680 --> 00:15:39,680 The dummy's forehead looks like a lunar landscape. 318 00:15:45,680 --> 00:15:47,680 Oh, I think that's a record. 319 00:15:50,680 --> 00:15:51,680 That hat is gone. 320 00:15:51,680 --> 00:15:53,680 He's definitely not going around going, 321 00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:55,680 and then he shot the hat right off my head. 322 00:15:55,680 --> 00:16:00,680 Because he'll also be like, then he shot the top of my head, right off my head. 323 00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:06,680 It's looking like this first cowboy myth might need to be right out of town on a rail. 324 00:16:10,680 --> 00:16:11,680 Yeah, you know, that was fun. 325 00:16:11,680 --> 00:16:13,680 We culled from 15 guns down to the three. 326 00:16:13,680 --> 00:16:15,680 We thought we're most likely, we had eight different hats, 327 00:16:15,680 --> 00:16:19,680 some 25 to 30 different shooting tests. 328 00:16:19,680 --> 00:16:23,680 Yep, and the only one that consistently shot off the hat was a shotgun. 329 00:16:23,680 --> 00:16:27,680 Yeah, but I think that's a, it's going a little far to say it's shot off the hat 330 00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:30,680 because I believe a good portion of your head would be going with that hat. 331 00:16:30,680 --> 00:16:37,680 I think we can definitively say that the movie myth that someone can fire a gun and your hat 332 00:16:37,680 --> 00:16:40,680 flies off your head, totally busted. 333 00:16:50,680 --> 00:16:54,680 Could an expanding airbag send a lockpick through a person's skull? 334 00:16:55,680 --> 00:16:57,680 Two, one. 335 00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:03,680 Well, we've seen an airbag launch a traffic cone weighing several pounds. 336 00:17:03,680 --> 00:17:06,680 So what might it do to a thin sliver of metal? 337 00:17:06,680 --> 00:17:10,680 In order to test this myth, we're going to need to get some car doors with side airbags 338 00:17:10,680 --> 00:17:13,680 and we'll get some lockpicks and see if we can set off the airbags with them. 339 00:17:13,680 --> 00:17:17,680 Yeah, but if this actually works, I think it'll be too dangerous for any of us to do. 340 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:18,680 Even for him? 341 00:17:18,680 --> 00:17:19,680 Yeah, even for him. 342 00:17:19,680 --> 00:17:21,680 I think we should make a robot. 343 00:17:21,680 --> 00:17:22,680 A robot? 344 00:17:22,680 --> 00:17:24,680 That's an original. 345 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:25,680 Shocking. 346 00:17:25,680 --> 00:17:27,680 I would have never guessed you wanted to build a robot. 347 00:17:27,680 --> 00:17:31,680 Well, hey, we don't have any trained monkeys, so we're going to have to use a robot. 348 00:17:31,680 --> 00:17:36,680 I don't know about no trained monkeys, but here's what we might loosely call the plan. 349 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:40,680 Grant will build a pair of remote controlled hands to operate the lockpick. 350 00:17:40,680 --> 00:17:45,680 A ballistic material baddie boasting a real human skull will be leaning over the tool. 351 00:17:45,680 --> 00:17:50,680 When the airbag deploys, we'll see whether it's quiteons for our car thieves. 352 00:17:50,680 --> 00:17:54,680 While Grant gets to grips with his robotic robber, 353 00:17:54,680 --> 00:17:59,680 Danger Will Robinson, Danger Warning Warning, carries going head hunting. 354 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:06,680 To properly test the lockpick of death men, I really feel like I need a real human skull. 355 00:18:06,680 --> 00:18:09,680 A casting just isn't going to give me the same sort of information. 356 00:18:10,680 --> 00:18:15,680 So, come to the bone room, because I know that they have a lot of skulls here. 357 00:18:15,680 --> 00:18:23,680 Do you think it's possible for a lockpick to be shot through a human head, just from the force of an airbag? 358 00:18:23,680 --> 00:18:26,680 There's parts on the skull that are fairly delicate. 359 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:33,680 You know, the nose, inside the eyes, but underneath is pretty solid. 360 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:37,680 Yeah, this is, you know, there's a lot more here than I'd expect. 361 00:18:37,680 --> 00:18:40,680 Yeah, I mean, it's, your brain's pretty well protected. 362 00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:45,680 Now she's going to make like the Wizard of Oz and give him a brain. 363 00:18:45,680 --> 00:18:49,680 This is sort of a gory myth, the idea of a lockpick shooting through your head. 364 00:18:49,680 --> 00:18:51,680 So I'm going to make a little bit of blood and a little bit of brain, 365 00:18:51,680 --> 00:18:55,680 and I can stuff up into this cavity here, and that way... 366 00:18:55,680 --> 00:19:01,680 Whoops, he's fine. If the skull gets damaged anyway, we'll know. 367 00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:05,680 Carrie mixes up some fake blood, and for the old gray matter... 368 00:19:05,680 --> 00:19:08,680 Well, that looks a little like brain, doesn't it? Just a little? 369 00:19:08,680 --> 00:19:10,680 Now that's using your noodle. 370 00:19:10,680 --> 00:19:14,680 When Carrie's finished filling his head with the nonsense... 371 00:19:14,680 --> 00:19:17,680 Grains are made of needles. 372 00:19:17,680 --> 00:19:19,680 She puts the skull inside the grand mold. 373 00:19:19,680 --> 00:19:22,680 I think the skull might have been a little bigger than Grant's head. 374 00:19:22,680 --> 00:19:24,680 And pours ballistic gel around it. 375 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:28,680 I just can't tell if it's leaking out or not. 376 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:32,680 Meanwhile, the real Grant is still wrestling with his robot. 377 00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:39,680 Lockpick sits right here in between two grippy hands with ballistic material fingers. 378 00:19:39,680 --> 00:19:48,680 Those are held securely in two linear actuators that will move basically in a straight line like this, or angling like that. 379 00:19:48,680 --> 00:19:52,680 So we've got a ballistic gel car thief complete with human skull. 380 00:19:52,680 --> 00:19:54,680 Yeah! 381 00:19:54,680 --> 00:19:58,680 And we've got a remote-controlled lockpick and robot. 382 00:19:58,680 --> 00:20:01,680 Now, we just need a car to break into. 383 00:20:01,680 --> 00:20:04,680 Are we sure that the airbags in here are actually operational? 384 00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:07,680 I think they've already been set off, to be honest. 385 00:20:07,680 --> 00:20:10,680 Notary, the side airbag hasn't been deployed. 386 00:20:10,680 --> 00:20:13,680 We just don't know if it can still fire. 387 00:20:13,680 --> 00:20:20,680 Mechanic Thomas Hannon runs a complete diagnostic check, and, not surprisingly, finds plenty of faults. 388 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:24,680 No. For this myth, we're focusing on the side-impact airbags. 389 00:20:24,680 --> 00:20:28,680 Will those faults inhibit the system from firing those? 390 00:20:28,680 --> 00:20:30,680 No, they shouldn't. 391 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:32,680 So the side airbag should still work. 392 00:20:32,680 --> 00:20:35,680 Question is, can a lockpick set it off? 393 00:20:35,680 --> 00:20:43,680 Remember, the myth states that an airbag inflates with enough force to send a lockpick boring through bone. 394 00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:47,680 Grant's robot is wrestled into position. 395 00:20:47,680 --> 00:20:51,680 Okay, just gonna get the tip inserted here. 396 00:20:51,680 --> 00:20:54,680 Too dangerous for the whole lockpick. 397 00:20:54,680 --> 00:20:56,680 So that's what this myth is all about. 398 00:20:56,680 --> 00:21:01,680 Using the remote control, Grant plunges the lockpick deep into the door. 399 00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:06,680 Okay, so that is as deep as it can go in there. 400 00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:11,680 Finally, Edder R. Carr Thief, ready for a little grand theft auto. 401 00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:13,680 His head's placed directly above the lockpick. 402 00:21:13,680 --> 00:21:15,680 That's perfect, man. 403 00:21:15,680 --> 00:21:16,680 Right under his chin. 404 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:17,680 Okay. 405 00:21:17,680 --> 00:21:19,680 Alright, let's see if you can fire off this airbag. 406 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:21,680 Okay, guys, lockpick of death. 407 00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:22,680 Are you ready? 408 00:21:22,680 --> 00:21:28,680 If this works, we're going to get a lockpick shooting through the guy's skull like a spear, 409 00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:31,680 and there's gonna be blood and udon everywhere. 410 00:21:31,680 --> 00:21:32,680 Here we go. 411 00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:35,680 Grant goes fishing. 412 00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:39,680 It's gotta be really hard to pick a lock when you can't feel or see it yourself. 413 00:21:39,680 --> 00:21:40,680 Nah. 414 00:21:42,680 --> 00:21:44,680 I hooked something. Check it out. 415 00:21:44,680 --> 00:21:45,680 Wait. 416 00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:50,680 Oh, it wasn't a lockpick. 417 00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:51,680 Looks like it got away. 418 00:21:51,680 --> 00:21:53,680 Remember, he's not trying to unlock the door. 419 00:21:53,680 --> 00:21:56,680 It's all about triggering the airbag. 420 00:21:56,680 --> 00:21:57,680 You getting frustrated? 421 00:21:57,680 --> 00:21:58,680 Frustration. 422 00:21:58,680 --> 00:21:59,680 Yes. 423 00:21:59,680 --> 00:22:04,680 But the airbag doesn't deploy, and the dummy's chin is still in one piece. 424 00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:12,680 You know, on the surface, the myth does seem feasible. 425 00:22:12,680 --> 00:22:15,680 Our researchers found five different cases on the internet where this happened. 426 00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:17,680 Two of them were guys trying to steal the cars. 427 00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:20,680 Three of them were cops trying to move cars which were blocking fire escapes. 428 00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:24,680 On closer inspection, though, there's absolutely no hard evidence for one of these stories. 429 00:22:24,680 --> 00:22:27,680 There's no news reports. There's no police reports. It's all hearsay. 430 00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:32,680 You know what else? Some of the cars that are mentioned don't even have side airbags. 431 00:22:32,680 --> 00:22:35,680 Hmm. Dubious at best. 432 00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:39,680 Grant decides to let his robot get rough. 433 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:42,680 Let me get it a little bit more vigorous. 434 00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:47,680 Yeah, that's good, because if you were breaking into a car, you probably would be a little more frantic about it. 435 00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:53,680 Grant gives the remote control unit a thorough thumbing, with no result. 436 00:22:53,680 --> 00:22:58,680 I think I've pretty much done the entire range of motion back and forth, up, down. 437 00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:02,680 I think if it was going to set it off, it would have set off the airbag by now. 438 00:23:02,680 --> 00:23:07,680 I think any fireman would have opened the door by now, and definitely a criminal would have. 439 00:23:07,680 --> 00:23:10,680 Thomas, how come we're not able to set off the airbag? 440 00:23:10,680 --> 00:23:14,680 The airbag's actually inside the car, not inside the door. 441 00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:18,680 Well, what they have to do is... wait a second. What did you say? 442 00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:23,680 The airbag's actually inside the car, not inside the door. 443 00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:28,680 So you knew this all along, and this is what you're expecting? You watch us bumble around with this? 444 00:23:28,680 --> 00:23:32,680 Yeah, I was pretty certain that the airbag would not deploy. 445 00:23:37,680 --> 00:23:40,680 Later, Grant, Tori and Kerry get a foot in the door. 446 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:43,680 But up next... 447 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:46,680 We break out of jail! Oh, West Stop! 448 00:23:55,680 --> 00:23:57,680 Meanwhile, back at the ranch... 449 00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:01,680 Breaking out of jail. Tell us the story. 450 00:24:01,680 --> 00:24:08,680 Okay. Picture me having been put in jail wrongly by a corrupt sheriff under the pay of a local land baron. 451 00:24:08,680 --> 00:24:11,680 I'm rotting away in my cell, and you've got to break me out. 452 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:16,680 So in the middle of the night, you come on your horse, you tie one end of a rope to the bars of my jail cell, 453 00:24:16,680 --> 00:24:23,680 and the other end of your horse, and you pull the bars right out of my jail cell wall, setting me free. 454 00:24:24,680 --> 00:24:29,680 When you're locked up in a low-down, filthy cell, what are you gonna do? 455 00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:35,680 Easy. Tie a rope onto the bars, last soon your horse, and get that trusty steed to back on up. 456 00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:43,680 Then bars are just gonna pop on out of the wall, and you're free as a bird. 457 00:24:44,680 --> 00:24:47,680 That's how it's done on the silver screen, ain't it all? 458 00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:53,680 So where do you want to start with this breaking out of jail myth? 459 00:24:53,680 --> 00:24:57,680 Well, first I think we need to learn a thing or two about Old West Jails. 460 00:24:57,680 --> 00:25:01,680 Fair enough. Then we'll replicate what we learned about, put them all into the test. 461 00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:05,680 In fact, there's a historic Old West Jail nearby in Monterey. 462 00:25:05,680 --> 00:25:06,680 Let's check it out. 463 00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:11,680 Jesse James Heidemann's come for a peek at a period prison. 464 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:18,680 Now, this particular one was built in 1854, and I hope we'll learn a thing or two about how these jails were made. 465 00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:22,680 Conducting today's tour, local historian Jim Conway. 466 00:25:22,680 --> 00:25:29,680 We do have a jail that was built between 1854 and 1855, so it's one of the oldest jails in California. 467 00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:31,680 And one of the most secure. 468 00:25:32,680 --> 00:25:35,680 It was a state-of-the-art fortress. 469 00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:36,680 Wow, that's a door. 470 00:25:36,680 --> 00:25:40,680 Not one prisoner ever escaped. And you can see why. 471 00:25:40,680 --> 00:25:42,680 These would be the jail windows to the cells. 472 00:25:42,680 --> 00:25:45,680 Though sure ain't windows of opportunity. 473 00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:48,680 I made it a plate steel. There's no bars there. There's no bars. 474 00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:50,680 Oh, that's a problem. 475 00:25:50,680 --> 00:25:54,680 The roof is actually granite also, and the floor is granite. 476 00:25:54,680 --> 00:25:57,680 So it's like several feet of granite everywhere. 477 00:25:57,680 --> 00:25:59,680 That's correct. Bummer. 478 00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:06,680 Besides, you'd have to be thinner than a consumptive coyote to squeeze out through there. 479 00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:10,680 This is just a slit. I mean, it's solid granite. There's a slit. 480 00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:13,680 There's a bar right here that goes floor to ceiling. 481 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:19,680 And then outside of that, there's plate steel. It's like, you're not getting through this. 482 00:26:19,680 --> 00:26:21,680 Thanks for the look, see Jim. 483 00:26:21,680 --> 00:26:26,680 But the mythbusters might be needing something a little more, well, rustic. 484 00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:29,680 So what'd you come up with on your reconnaissance mission? 485 00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:33,680 There were bars on that jail, but they were on the inside. 486 00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:36,680 I mean, there was nothing on the exterior that jail to tie onto. 487 00:26:36,680 --> 00:26:39,680 There's no way a horse is going to do anything. 488 00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:42,680 Well, we are in luck because while you were growing the researchers found us, 489 00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:45,680 I think something that's ideal for our needs. 490 00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:48,680 Fort Dodge, just outside of Dodge City. 491 00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:52,680 An original frontier jail built solely out of railroad ties. 492 00:26:52,680 --> 00:26:53,680 Is that it? 493 00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:56,680 That's it. It's got a one foot window with four steel bars in it. 494 00:26:56,680 --> 00:27:02,680 They don't go floor to ceiling. They're only augured in about an inch, inch and a half under the top and the bottom. 495 00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:06,680 And as you can see, it's like the perfect size for us. 496 00:27:06,680 --> 00:27:07,680 Works for me. 497 00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:11,680 We can totally build this and we can totally try and destroy it. 498 00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:12,680 Okay. 499 00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:17,680 The weeds around these parts might not tumble, 500 00:27:17,680 --> 00:27:22,680 but this old abandoned military base sure has the feel of a ghost town. 501 00:27:22,680 --> 00:27:24,680 That is, to the mythbusters ride. 502 00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:29,680 Yee-haw! 503 00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:31,680 Random cowboy. 504 00:27:32,680 --> 00:27:36,680 We're going to build a jail frontier style at a railroad ties. 505 00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:41,680 We're going to auger some bars into a small window. 506 00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:44,680 And Jamie and I are going to try and break out of that jail. 507 00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:51,680 Using authentic building materials, the mythbusters set about replicating the Fort Dodge jail. 508 00:27:52,680 --> 00:27:57,680 Alright, so I'm thinking, you know, the jail we're trying to replicate had a window that's about 12 inches square. 509 00:27:57,680 --> 00:27:59,680 These beams are just a little over six inches high. 510 00:27:59,680 --> 00:28:02,680 Window maybe about 18 inches wide. 511 00:28:02,680 --> 00:28:04,680 Two beams high. 512 00:28:04,680 --> 00:28:05,680 Okay. 513 00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:12,680 Yeah, there we go. Now I'm in a rhythm. 514 00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:13,680 Woo! 515 00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:15,680 Oh my God. 516 00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:17,680 It's going to be sore tomorrow. 517 00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:19,680 It's basic frontier construction. 518 00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:23,680 No mortar, no nails, just a round peg and a round hole. 519 00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:31,680 Now I know you might be yelling at your TV right now that this doesn't look like a jail that you've been to, 520 00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:37,680 but this is an exact replica of the Fort Dodge jail built in 1865. 521 00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:41,680 Now we didn't construct the entire jail, we just constructed one wall which we braced with steel. 522 00:28:41,680 --> 00:28:45,680 But the bars are an accurate spacing, they're accurate size, 523 00:28:45,680 --> 00:28:49,680 they're accurate material, and we're going to try and pull them out of that wall. 524 00:28:49,680 --> 00:28:56,680 For this myth to be true, our horse or horses need to be able to yank these bars out of this window here 525 00:28:56,680 --> 00:29:00,680 and create enough of a space for our prisoner to actually escape. 526 00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:08,680 Now we know from watching countless westerns that a horse is much more than a mode of transport. 527 00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:16,680 The cowboy and his horse share an unbridled love, but could they join forces to stage a jailbreak? 528 00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:24,680 Luckily a couple of hombres are willing to let Adam and Jamie use their trusty steeds to test this cowboy cliché. 529 00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:27,680 You must be our cowboy that's going to help us break out of jail. 530 00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:29,680 That's correct. I'm Old Buckaroo. 531 00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:31,680 Old Buckaroo, Adam? 532 00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:32,680 Ozark Outlaw. 533 00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:35,680 Ozark Outlaw. Who are these guys? 534 00:29:35,680 --> 00:29:37,680 This is Snaky Poo the Wonder Horse. 535 00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:39,680 Hey handsome, how you doing? 536 00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:40,680 And this guy? 537 00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:43,680 This is Sully, he's a 17 year old rule horse. 538 00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:48,680 Our own horse whisperers go to saddle up for the first jailbreak attempt. 539 00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:56,680 I'd love to attach a scale between the bars and you and the horse so I can tell how many pounds of force 540 00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:59,680 you're putting on pulling those bars out with the horse. 541 00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:01,680 Okay, well let's set it up. 542 00:30:01,680 --> 00:30:02,680 Alright. 543 00:30:02,680 --> 00:30:03,680 You got it or you need my help? 544 00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:05,680 No, you can stay right there. 545 00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:08,680 Alright, where you want to go? 546 00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:13,680 Adam throws a rope around the bars and ties the other end to a force gauge. 547 00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:16,680 A second rope links the force gauge to Jamie's saddle. 548 00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:18,680 Alright, so are we ready? 549 00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:20,680 Whenever you're ready sir. 550 00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:23,680 Remember, this is what we want to happen. 551 00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:26,680 The horse backs up and it's bye bye jail bars. 552 00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:33,680 Let's see partners, can steed beat steel? 553 00:30:33,680 --> 00:30:35,680 Alright, let's break me out of jail. 554 00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:37,680 Come on boy. 555 00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:38,680 That's it, come on. 556 00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:42,680 Jamie gets snakey poo to back on up. 557 00:30:42,680 --> 00:30:47,680 The horse strains against the rope but those bars ain't so much as bending. 558 00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:50,680 He's only putting about 400 pounds on it. 559 00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:53,680 400 pounds right to the saddle. 560 00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:59,680 You know the saddle wants to go one way or another, it's not designed to do anything other than hold a person on there. 561 00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:02,680 And it was in process of pulling the saddle off. 562 00:31:02,680 --> 00:31:06,680 Next up, two cowboys on the bars. 563 00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:10,680 Alright, cowboys, break me out of jail. 564 00:31:10,680 --> 00:31:14,680 We got ourselves two lots of even horse flesh. 565 00:31:14,680 --> 00:31:17,680 Come on jail there, come on. 566 00:31:17,680 --> 00:31:20,680 But it looks like our inmate is staying in for the evening. 567 00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:23,680 We're up to about 500 pounds. 568 00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:26,680 Actually we just busted 500 pounds. 569 00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:29,680 Maybe we need to use something other than a horse. 570 00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:35,680 In fact, I got something over here that I think we can, you might be able to do a little bit more than that. 571 00:31:35,680 --> 00:31:39,680 Jamie wheels out some, yes you guessed it, modern horse power. 572 00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:45,680 What we've got here is a machine that actually weighs as much as a single good sized horse. 573 00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:50,680 And we don't have to worry about yanking the saddle off of it or breaking the horse's back or something like that. 574 00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:54,680 We can actually get it rolling and jerk on these bars a little. 575 00:31:55,680 --> 00:32:00,680 As long as we're using the power of a horse to break out of jail, we can talk about horse power. 576 00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:07,680 A term invented in 1782 by James Watt, who actually also invented the term the Watt, an electrical unit. 577 00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:13,680 Yeah, Watt based his measurement on the amount of work that a horse could do with a millstone or a millwheel. 578 00:32:13,680 --> 00:32:19,680 And it amounted to lifting 33,000 pounds one foot in one minute. 579 00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:23,680 Now that's not to say that a single horse is always producing a single horse power. 580 00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:29,680 It's been shown that horses in peak loads for a few seconds can put out as much as 15 horsepower. 581 00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:34,680 Yeah, and for reference the ATV we were using had about 18 horsepower. 582 00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:41,680 The forklift had about 125 and not that it's really relevant but it's interesting anyway. 583 00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:49,680 A human can put out about 0.1 horsepower for a long period of time, about 0.3 if he's an athlete. 584 00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:55,680 And put out as much as 1.2 horsepower for a very brief period. 585 00:32:55,680 --> 00:33:03,680 So now that we're all clear on horse power, the rope is attached to the all-terrain vehicle and Jamie digs in his spurs. 586 00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:07,680 What was that? 587 00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:11,680 Well, you got it to 900 pounds but then the rope broke. 588 00:33:11,680 --> 00:33:13,680 I think we're going to need a stronger rope. 589 00:33:14,680 --> 00:33:22,680 900 pounds. That's almost twice the amount of horse force our four-legged friends were able to generate. 590 00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:24,680 The better blue rope. 591 00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:27,680 This rope is rated for 6,000 pounds. 592 00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:29,680 Okay, whenever you're ready. 593 00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:39,680 Seems like the guys are just spinning their wheels. 594 00:33:41,680 --> 00:33:42,680 What did we get up to? 595 00:33:42,680 --> 00:33:46,680 I think we broke 1,000 pounds there. I think you put like 1,200 pounds on it. 596 00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:54,680 Well, our modern 4x4 horseless carriage was able to put on well more than double the amount of pulling force that two horses did. 597 00:33:56,680 --> 00:33:59,680 And still our jail is in place. 598 00:34:00,680 --> 00:34:02,680 And we exceeded what our scale can measure. 599 00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:08,680 So it's time to bump up to a new scale and we have one more vehicle I think which we can test this myth with. 600 00:34:13,680 --> 00:34:14,680 I think this ought to do. 601 00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:20,680 The sling on the bars is rated at 16,000 pounds. The scale can measure up to 20,000 pounds. 602 00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:22,680 That thing weighs about 28,000 pounds. 603 00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:24,680 I'd say we've got enough force to apply it in this myth. 604 00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:27,680 Cowboys had their horses. 605 00:34:29,680 --> 00:34:32,680 Jamie has a giant mechanical workhorse. 606 00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:33,680 We're good. 607 00:34:33,680 --> 00:34:36,680 We'll this rip out the bars and set our friend free. 608 00:34:37,680 --> 00:34:39,680 The sling goes taut. 609 00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:42,680 Once again the bars don't buckle. 610 00:34:43,680 --> 00:34:46,680 But the steel beams supporting the wall do. 611 00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:48,680 Those bars aren't going anywhere. 612 00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:51,680 And the whole structure starts to come down. 613 00:34:51,680 --> 00:34:55,680 Wall failed at 4,000 pounds and the bars haven't budged. 614 00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:57,680 4,000 pounds is a lot of horses. 615 00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:00,680 That's a lot more than what we see in the movies. 616 00:35:00,680 --> 00:35:05,680 This is the most makeshift jail that our researchers could turn up for this myth. 617 00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:09,680 Well, I guess I'm still stuck in jail. My avocado crop's going to rot. 618 00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:11,680 Whoa, not so fast, Adam. 619 00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:15,680 We're not ready to give up on a Wild West prison break just yet. 620 00:35:15,680 --> 00:35:19,680 Coming up on Mythbusters, can I break Jamie out of jail with justice sticking down to my... 621 00:35:19,680 --> 00:35:21,680 We'll find out. Here goes! 622 00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:27,680 And after the break, the guys get a real kick out of the lockpick of death. 623 00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:39,680 After trying in vain to trigger some airbag bloodshed with a lockpick... 624 00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:42,680 What are they doing? 625 00:35:42,680 --> 00:35:47,680 The Mythbusters have discovered that a side airbag is not actually inside the car door. 626 00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:50,680 It's in the car, hidden behind the upholstery. 627 00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:51,680 This is the airbag. 628 00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:56,680 Okay, well, it seems that jiggling around the lockpick isn't enough to set off the airbag. 629 00:35:56,680 --> 00:35:58,680 This one is looking busted. 630 00:35:58,680 --> 00:35:59,680 Not so fast. 631 00:35:59,680 --> 00:36:02,680 Now, we know that airbags are set off by impact. 632 00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:05,680 What if the crook is creating its own impact? 633 00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:07,680 Like, it gets really mad, starts kicking the door. 634 00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:09,680 That is a great idea. 635 00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:12,680 But, you know, I think it's too dangerous for any one of us to kick the door. 636 00:36:12,680 --> 00:36:16,680 So what I'll do is I'll modify the sword-swinging rig and turn it into a kicking machine. 637 00:36:16,680 --> 00:36:18,680 Yeah, super kicking rig! 638 00:36:18,680 --> 00:36:19,680 I like it. 639 00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:22,680 So, scenario B. 640 00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:26,680 Unable to break into the car, our frustrated felon kicks the door. 641 00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:31,680 And that impact triggers the airbag, really giving him a problem to get his head around. 642 00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:36,680 This air-powered rig has been used to swing swords. 643 00:36:36,680 --> 00:36:38,680 And, have cameras. 644 00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:43,680 Now, the shoes on the other foot. 645 00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:46,680 Who's gonna lose their teeth today? 646 00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:51,680 We need to make sure our rig is calibrated to what a human can actually kick. 647 00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:55,680 Carrie and Tori take turns sinking the boot into a force plate. 648 00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:57,680 Anytime, actually. 649 00:36:58,680 --> 00:37:01,680 That's, uh, you peaked at 485 newtons. 650 00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:05,680 Imagine what a guy could do if I had steel toes. 651 00:37:05,680 --> 00:37:07,680 You ready? Yep. 652 00:37:08,680 --> 00:37:10,680 That's a good one. 653 00:37:10,680 --> 00:37:14,680 You peaked at 1056 newtons. 654 00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:16,680 More than twice what Carrie did. 655 00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:17,680 Oh my gosh! 656 00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:19,680 Wow, you're so... 657 00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:21,680 I think I might have done twice as much damage to you as well. 658 00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:23,680 A thousand newtons of force. 659 00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:25,680 That's what the kick rig has to match. 660 00:37:25,680 --> 00:37:30,680 Air pressure of 25 pounds per square inch will get the job done. 661 00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:33,680 So we're gonna keep the head in place. 662 00:37:33,680 --> 00:37:35,680 We're gonna keep the lockpick in place. 663 00:37:35,680 --> 00:37:39,680 And now we're gonna bring in a machine to do a little kicking. 664 00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:44,680 Is a thousand newtons of force enough to sit off a side airbag? 665 00:37:44,680 --> 00:37:47,680 Is the lockpick about to borrow into our dummy's brain? 666 00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:50,680 They're about to take a punt. 667 00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:52,680 Well, the rig is. 668 00:37:52,680 --> 00:37:55,680 Here we go. In three, two, one. 669 00:37:56,680 --> 00:37:58,680 Oh! 670 00:37:58,680 --> 00:38:01,680 We just dented the car door. 671 00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:04,680 The airbag didn't deploy, the lockpick didn't launch. 672 00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:07,680 That dummy still got his head together. 673 00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:11,680 I say we ramp it up from 25 to 125. 674 00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:12,680 Yeah! 675 00:38:12,680 --> 00:38:16,680 So way beyond anything any human could possibly do. 676 00:38:16,680 --> 00:38:17,680 Superhuman. 677 00:38:17,680 --> 00:38:21,680 Carrie ups the air pressure to 125 psi. 678 00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:23,680 Oh, we're closing it on 100. 679 00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:27,680 That boots about to get five times more forceful. 680 00:38:35,680 --> 00:38:36,680 Damn! 681 00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:37,680 Oh my god! 682 00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:39,680 What just happened? 683 00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:40,680 Nothing. 684 00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:42,680 Did he kick himself in the head? 685 00:38:42,680 --> 00:38:46,680 The car might not be intact, but the car thieves only a little shaken up. 686 00:38:47,680 --> 00:38:51,680 Well, kicking the door does not set off the airbag. 687 00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:53,680 In any way at all. 688 00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:55,680 And that was a superhuman strike. 689 00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:59,680 As a last resort, they rigged the airbag to go off remotely, 690 00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:03,680 with the lockpick and the dummy in position just to see what would happen. 691 00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:05,680 Two, one. 692 00:39:06,680 --> 00:39:08,680 We like the transfer. 693 00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:10,680 And there you have it. 694 00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:13,680 Lockpick and airbag are not in the same vicinity. 695 00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:17,680 It takes an automotive impact of tremendous strength. 696 00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:20,680 There's no human way to do it. 697 00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:25,680 You need to strike the vehicle with the G-forces in excess of 8Gs. 698 00:39:25,680 --> 00:39:27,680 That's a lot of energy. 699 00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:29,680 So this one's double busted. 700 00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:32,680 Not only can a lockpick not set off a side impact airbag, 701 00:39:32,680 --> 00:39:35,680 but an impact from a human can't set it off either. 702 00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:37,680 Well, the airbag is deploying inside the car. 703 00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:40,680 The direction is not up towards the lockpick, 704 00:39:40,680 --> 00:39:42,680 so the lockpick would never get launched into your skull. 705 00:39:42,680 --> 00:39:43,680 It's busted. 706 00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:45,680 Well, that means it's my favorite part of the myth. 707 00:39:45,680 --> 00:39:48,680 This is where we get to replicate the results. 708 00:39:48,680 --> 00:39:50,680 I did not make those brains for nothing. 709 00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:54,680 So to pick our car thief's brain once and for all, 710 00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:57,680 the plan is to, yes, build an air cannon. 711 00:39:57,680 --> 00:40:01,680 That'll fire that lockpick straight into the dummy's skull. 712 00:40:01,680 --> 00:40:06,680 To get this lockpick up to lethal velocity, 713 00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:10,680 we're going to need as much air as possible going through here as quickly as we can. 714 00:40:11,680 --> 00:40:16,680 The lockpick is set in a foam sabote, which fits snugly down the barrel. 715 00:40:17,680 --> 00:40:19,680 All right, load her in. 716 00:40:23,680 --> 00:40:26,680 Here's a chance that the barrel itself might explode. 717 00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:29,680 Once again, the dummy's going to lead with his chin. 718 00:40:29,680 --> 00:40:32,680 He's lined up directly over the barrel. 719 00:40:32,680 --> 00:40:34,680 I would say let's strap it. 720 00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:36,680 Nah, that's good, dude. It's perfect. 721 00:40:36,680 --> 00:40:40,680 Ouch! If that lockpick launches, it just can't miss. 722 00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:43,680 But will it be able to appear solid bone? 723 00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:47,680 The cannons primed with maximum air pressure, 125 psi. 724 00:40:47,680 --> 00:40:50,680 Will that be enough to blow that dummy's mind? 725 00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:55,680 This is lockpick of death, the final blow. 726 00:40:55,680 --> 00:40:59,680 Here we go. In three, two, one. 727 00:41:05,680 --> 00:41:07,680 It got a take! 728 00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:08,680 It did it! 729 00:41:08,680 --> 00:41:09,680 It did it! 730 00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:11,680 It shot straight up through the top of the head. 731 00:41:13,680 --> 00:41:16,680 Dude, it's totally curbed to a skull. 732 00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:18,680 Oh, that is it! 733 00:41:18,680 --> 00:41:19,680 It's dripping blood! 734 00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:21,680 That's what you wanted. 735 00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:26,680 I know that an airbag won't do that, but I guess an air gun will. 736 00:41:27,680 --> 00:41:32,680 If ever there was a Mythbusters experiment that does what it says on the tin, this is it. 737 00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:35,680 The skull is skewered. 738 00:41:36,680 --> 00:41:40,680 Looks like it took 125 psi for me to meet my demise. 739 00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:44,680 Now that's so far out of the realm of reality, it's just ridiculous. 740 00:41:44,680 --> 00:41:48,680 Yeah, you know, the whole idea of, you know, in the middle of breaking into a car, 741 00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:53,680 the airbag going off and launching the lockpick into your head, I mean, it's just busted. 742 00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:55,680 It's busted. 743 00:41:55,680 --> 00:41:57,680 It's busted like me! 744 00:42:03,680 --> 00:42:07,680 Outside of a cinema, there's no way a horse can muster enough horsepower 745 00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:10,680 to pull the bars clean out of the jail wall. 746 00:42:10,680 --> 00:42:13,680 Maybe we need to use something other than a horse. 747 00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:18,680 But Adam and Jamie haven't given up hope of staging a breakout. 748 00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:21,680 Those bars aren't going anywhere! 749 00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:27,680 In their final Western Myth, they'll try to remove the bars using a stick of dynamite. 750 00:42:28,680 --> 00:42:32,680 Question is, can you blow a hole in the wall that's big enough to crawl through 751 00:42:32,680 --> 00:42:35,680 without harming the incarcerated cowboy? 752 00:42:35,680 --> 00:42:39,680 Well, we've come out to the Alameda County Sheriff's Bomb Range to do this experiment. 753 00:42:39,680 --> 00:42:41,680 And we're going to build a real frontier jail. 754 00:42:41,680 --> 00:42:45,680 Three walls, the last wall you notice for the bars, the Sheriff's Office. 755 00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:50,680 Out of railroad ties, and we're going to try out the equivalent of a stick of dynamite 756 00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:52,680 and see if that'll break me out. 757 00:42:52,680 --> 00:42:57,680 Explosives expert Sergeant J.D. Nelson has graved doubts about this movie myth. 758 00:42:57,680 --> 00:42:59,680 And I mean, great. 759 00:43:00,680 --> 00:43:02,680 Well, I think you could definitely get in the jail now, 760 00:43:02,680 --> 00:43:06,680 whether you can do that without killing somebody that's in the cell is a whole other story. 761 00:43:06,680 --> 00:43:08,680 Well, that's what we're here to find out. 762 00:43:12,680 --> 00:43:16,680 Once again, they'll base their design on the Fort Dodge Jail. 763 00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:20,680 Things are moving quicker than a whiskey shot along a saloon bar. 764 00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:24,680 Before you know it, they've built themselves three walls and a barred window. 765 00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:27,680 This is like a really cool, sadistic playhouse. 766 00:43:27,680 --> 00:43:30,680 The percentage is on dynamite breaking your friend out of prison? 767 00:43:30,680 --> 00:43:32,680 I don't think it's going to... 768 00:43:32,680 --> 00:43:34,680 Hey, get back in there! 769 00:43:34,680 --> 00:43:35,680 Alright. 770 00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:37,680 I don't think it's going to work, personally. 771 00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:45,680 I give it about a 20% chance of actually working a 60% chance of damaging the wood until we have to replace it. 772 00:43:46,680 --> 00:43:51,680 And a 20% chance that something we did not foresee will flummox us completely. 773 00:43:51,680 --> 00:43:53,680 Get back in there! 774 00:43:54,680 --> 00:43:59,680 For this myth to be true, we need to blow out these bars or the window around them 775 00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:01,680 without killing the guy inside the jail. 776 00:44:01,680 --> 00:44:05,680 And we need to create a big enough hole that he can actually fit through. 777 00:44:05,680 --> 00:44:09,680 Obviously, neither Adam or Jamie will be in the cell when the charge goes off. 778 00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:14,680 I'm coming to bust you out, little buddy. You just sit tight and plug your ears. 779 00:44:14,680 --> 00:44:17,680 It'll be Buster's job to get banged up. 780 00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:20,680 It looks like the vigilantes have already got to him. 781 00:44:20,680 --> 00:44:23,680 Buster, if you don't want to do the time, you don't do the crime. 782 00:44:23,680 --> 00:44:30,680 Now, if you were in a jail cell and dynamite was about to go off at the window, where would be the safest spot? 783 00:44:30,680 --> 00:44:32,680 I think we should turn them over and have them sitting up in the corner. 784 00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:36,680 That's where I'd want to be if there was dynamite coming in the window, like against this wall, don't you think? 785 00:44:36,680 --> 00:44:37,680 Yeah. 786 00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:41,680 Buster should be out of the firing line if the cell's showered with shrapnel. 787 00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:45,680 Shock watch stickers on his chest and head will measure the force of the blast. 788 00:44:45,680 --> 00:44:49,680 Red registers a shock of 50 Gs, which is survivable. 789 00:44:49,680 --> 00:44:53,680 Orange is a bone-splintering 75 Gs. 790 00:44:53,680 --> 00:44:56,680 Green trips at a lethal 100 Gs. 791 00:44:56,680 --> 00:45:00,680 50, 75, and 100 all inside of his face. 792 00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:06,680 So the theory here is if he sustains any kind of lethal shockwave G load, we should be able to see it in the shock watch stickers. 793 00:45:06,680 --> 00:45:07,680 That's it. 794 00:45:09,680 --> 00:45:12,680 Our stick of dynamite isn't actually dynamite. 795 00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:17,680 It's a secret explosive compound that's more stable than the real thing. 796 00:45:17,680 --> 00:45:18,680 Right. 797 00:45:18,680 --> 00:45:20,680 It has the same properties as dynamite. 798 00:45:20,680 --> 00:45:22,680 It has the same feet per second. 799 00:45:22,680 --> 00:45:25,680 In fact, I even have it disguised as dynamite. 800 00:45:25,680 --> 00:45:27,680 The charge is laid. 801 00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:30,680 Don't you try and break out now. 802 00:45:30,680 --> 00:45:33,680 And the team hightails it to a safe distance. 803 00:45:33,680 --> 00:45:35,680 Will Buster be busted out of jail? 804 00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:38,680 Or will our detainee be detonated? 805 00:45:38,680 --> 00:45:39,680 Okay. 806 00:45:39,680 --> 00:45:45,680 We're going to blow ourselves out of jail with the one stick of dynamite in three, two, one. 807 00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:50,680 Look at that. 808 00:45:52,680 --> 00:45:54,680 Well, the jail's still there. 809 00:45:54,680 --> 00:45:56,680 The jail is definitely still there. 810 00:45:56,680 --> 00:45:57,680 Let's go look. 811 00:45:57,680 --> 00:45:58,680 Let's check it out. 812 00:45:58,680 --> 00:45:59,680 What do you think? 813 00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:01,680 You think the bars are still there? 814 00:46:01,680 --> 00:46:06,680 The blast doesn't look to have done a whole lot of damage, not by myth Buster's standards anyway. 815 00:46:06,680 --> 00:46:08,680 Some of those bars are coming out of there. 816 00:46:08,680 --> 00:46:09,680 Dude, wait, wait, wait, wait. 817 00:46:09,680 --> 00:46:10,680 Don't pull from there. 818 00:46:10,680 --> 00:46:11,680 Why? 819 00:46:11,680 --> 00:46:13,680 Let's see if I can get out from inside. 820 00:46:17,680 --> 00:46:18,680 One bar. 821 00:46:18,680 --> 00:46:19,680 Go on. 822 00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:22,680 Adam makes like duck holiday, pull it out some loose teeth. 823 00:46:25,680 --> 00:46:26,680 There you go. 824 00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:27,680 That's it. 825 00:46:27,680 --> 00:46:28,680 Okay, here you go. 826 00:46:28,680 --> 00:46:29,680 Now. 827 00:46:30,680 --> 00:46:32,680 I'm going to try and climb out. 828 00:46:32,680 --> 00:46:34,680 Here, take my hat. 829 00:46:36,680 --> 00:46:41,680 The bars may be gone, but is that wide open space wide enough for Adam's abdomen? 830 00:46:41,680 --> 00:46:44,680 How much were you going to bet me whether you can get through there or not? 831 00:46:44,680 --> 00:46:46,680 This is going to be tough. 832 00:46:46,680 --> 00:46:50,680 It's that prison food that's kind of fattened you up. 833 00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:52,680 All those beans. 834 00:46:53,680 --> 00:46:57,680 So one stick of dynamite is enough to loosen the bars. 835 00:46:57,680 --> 00:47:02,680 And it is possible, eventually, to make it out through the window. 836 00:47:02,680 --> 00:47:04,680 I could totally get out now. 837 00:47:04,680 --> 00:47:06,680 That's two ticks for the myth. 838 00:47:06,680 --> 00:47:07,680 Okay, move forward. 839 00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:09,680 Move forward over here. 840 00:47:09,680 --> 00:47:11,680 Yeah, form a little table form. 841 00:47:11,680 --> 00:47:12,680 All right. 842 00:47:15,680 --> 00:47:16,680 Okay. 843 00:47:16,680 --> 00:47:17,680 Freedom. 844 00:47:17,680 --> 00:47:18,680 Yes. 845 00:47:18,680 --> 00:47:22,680 That was some nice precision demolition there, dude. 846 00:47:22,680 --> 00:47:24,680 But hold your horses, guys. 847 00:47:24,680 --> 00:47:30,680 Remember, for this myth to be confirmed, Buster has to have survived that explosion, right? 848 00:47:30,680 --> 00:47:32,680 Buster is totally dead, dude. 849 00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:34,680 That's the 100G trip. 850 00:47:35,680 --> 00:47:36,680 He did not survive. 851 00:47:36,680 --> 00:47:40,680 He took 100 to the face and he took 75 to the chest. 852 00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:43,680 I'm sorry, Buster. 853 00:47:43,680 --> 00:47:48,680 The concussive force of a single stick of dynamite has saved the hangman the trouble. 854 00:47:48,680 --> 00:47:53,680 You have to keep in mind also that we just barely blew out those bars. 855 00:47:53,680 --> 00:47:55,680 That was precision demolition. 856 00:47:55,680 --> 00:48:01,680 You could not have him escape through that hole with any less explosion, and that explosion killed him. 857 00:48:01,680 --> 00:48:03,680 This actually worked perfectly. 858 00:48:03,680 --> 00:48:08,680 It worked just like we planned, but in my mind, this is silly as heck. 859 00:48:08,680 --> 00:48:17,680 You killed your buddy, and furthermore, with all this ordeal with dynamite and, you know, noise and potentially killing your buddy, 860 00:48:17,680 --> 00:48:22,680 it would have taken me about five minutes with an axe to dig a hole like this. 861 00:48:22,680 --> 00:48:29,680 Like a frontier town, our final cowboy myth has gone from boon to bust. 862 00:48:30,680 --> 00:48:34,680 So breaking out of an old West jail turned out to be harder than we thought, huh? 863 00:48:34,680 --> 00:48:38,680 Yeah, personally, I'd rather have one of these than anything that we tried. 864 00:48:38,680 --> 00:48:43,680 Yeah, as far as ropes go, one horse didn't work, two horses didn't work, 865 00:48:43,680 --> 00:48:48,680 and even our 30,000-pound holler didn't successfully remove the bars from the wall. 866 00:48:48,680 --> 00:48:55,680 Yeah, and we chose our design of a frontier jail as specifically the one that was most vulnerable to having its bars pulled out. 867 00:48:55,680 --> 00:49:01,680 Yup, and explosives, they removed the bars okay, but... 868 00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:04,680 You're not leaving that jail through the window, you're leaving in a pine box. 869 00:49:04,680 --> 00:49:06,680 Yeah, myth busted. 870 00:49:06,680 --> 00:49:09,680 So are two techniques that you've seen in the movies for busting your buddy out of jail? 871 00:49:09,680 --> 00:49:11,680 Totally busted. 872 00:49:11,680 --> 00:49:26,680 Mythbusters books and DVDs are available at Dimmix and DVDs at JB Hi-Fi.