A resident of Petaluma California was relaxing in her house when she heard a violent thud... But it was not an earthquake, or an overzealous garbage man or Leo Laport drag racing his Ford Mustang. It was a camera lens flying through her roof. The lens must have been traveling at terminal velocity (the highest speed an object can reach while falling with wind resistance) because it had no problem blasting through plywood and shredding a windows screen before landing on the ground.
The most puzzling part of this is the lens itself. One would expect someone taking pics from a plane would be using a gigantic lens... that was properly attached to the aircraft! But the lens that flew through this Petaluma roof was small. They did not say what it was, but the lens hood is clearly labeled "EW-83H". So assuming the hood was affixed to the lens it was designed for, the asteroidal objective must be a Canon 24-105mm. The 24-105 is a scant 2lb with a very limited telephoto range. Maybe it did not fall from a plane after-all, perhaps it was an angry Nikon user out to get a little "Office Space" style justice!
You can check out the video at the link below
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/video?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=6258526
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