Firing Off Your Backyard Cannon Not the Best Way to Celebrate a Steelers Win

Before I get started I have to ask—who has a cannon in their backyard?  I mean an actual working cannon in your backyard?  Unless you’re using it to scare away giant predatory birds the size of a Cessna, then you have no business owning a cannon, period. Try telling that to Bobby Wayne Blanton, a North Carolina man who thought it’d be a wise idea to fire off his homemade cannon following the Pittsburgh Steelers victory over the New York Jets in last Sunday’s AFC title game.
Neighbors called police to alert them that Blanton was shooting his howitzer, and when they got their, found that the 45-year-old man had a “second homemade cannon, two containers of black powder, muzzle-loading propellant pellets and a fuse.”
Hey, the man likes his heavy artillery as much as he likes his football team…which is kind of scary when you think about it.  But I’m sure it seemed like a good idea to Bobby Wayne at the time.
Blanton was given a citation for discharging a firearm within city limits.  No word on whether his pair of homemade cannons were seized or not, but what are the odds he had permits for both of them?  This is North Carolina after all.
Anyone want to bet alcohol was involved?  Anyone?  Bueller?
I can only imagine how Blanton plans on celebrating a Steelers Super Bowl win—probably a reenactment of the Battle of Gettysburg, complete with real artillery, held at the local Boys and Girls club.