Chunk of metal crashes through roof near NJ man

JERSEY CITY, N.J. – A note to someone in northern New Jersey: Check what you're putting through your wood chipper. Al Smith was forklifting a sofa in his moving company's warehouse in Jersey City on Wednesday morning when he heard a sound he thought was a bomb. A chunk of hot metal the size of a brick came crashing through the roof just steps from him. It splintered a wooden beam and crashed into a shelf.

The Federal Aviation Administration looked at the object and determined it wasn't from an airplane. Mayor Jerramiah Healy said the cast iron object came from a nearby wood chipper.

Smith was not hurt but said he was shaken up. He feels so lucky it missed him that his next step was to buy a lottery ticket.

Holy chit that is just freaky but i know it can happen i have seen it first hand doing just that jub.

Wow, now that would scare the crap out of ya. I hit a piece of steel about the size of a non filtered camel cig and it broke the housing on the mower and my ankle, so they can fly pretty dang hard and a wood chipper is hauling it probably a lot faster than a mower.

That would suck.