So you’re sitting in your own home minding your own business on your own couch with your own wife.

An Oklahoma home was damaged last weekend by a howitzer artillery shell fired from a gun range three miles away.

The artillery shell – which is 14.5 inches long and 3.5 inches across – crashed through an exterior wall, hit the ceiling, and damaged another wall while homeowner Gene Kelley and his wife were in another room, reported KOAM-TV.

“It’s unbelievable,” Kelley said. “Unless you were here to see it or see the pictures I’ve got, you would not believe how huge this thing is.”

Oh, I won’t take much convincing.  This is kinda huge even by Texas standards.  By Oklahoma standards, it’s colossal.

Homeowners say if the shell had not first hit a tree limb and then the ground, the impact would have been a lot more severe when it hit the house.

The gun range owner is saying he’ll pay for the damages but that this was just a “freak accident” and everything they did was perfectly safely.  Obviously not.  I’m no expert on home construction, but that hole does not look safe to me.  That, of course, could just be me because I don’t live in a war zone.  Or Oklahoma.

Next it’ll be, “oops, we had no idea that tactical nuclear weapon would have nay fallout.  We fired it by the instruction book.”

The homeowner, in the understatement of the year, said,”The people that bring these type of weapons need to think about whether it is really safe and an appropriate area to take a weapon of that magnitude and shoot it.”

Ya think?

Thanks to everybody for the heads up.