For a shot heard — it seems — around the world, the MythBusters cannonball misfire only really rocked one suburban neighborhood. Now a map lets you see the wayward projectile’s path through Dublin, California.

It’s just a little bit of Google Maps handiwork, but it really is impressive to see all the places the cannonball hit in its bizarre trajectory, which was only slightly less strange than something you might see in a Looney Toons cartoon.

“I heard about the cannonball pinballing around houses and crossing busy streets,” Seattle web consultant Matt Pressnall, who created the map and posted it here, said in an e-mail to Wired.com. “I became very curious about what its flight path was. I was imagining people sleeping in bed and cannonballs bouncing around their houses, thinking how surreal it would be to wake to falling plaster and having no idea where the hole in the walls came from.” via Wired

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