"I thought possibly it had fallen from a plane or had to do with a drug deal or something," Austin Adair's mother, Jennie Adair, said. "Possibly North Korea with a sausage missile or something."
Maybe Amazon was hitting a few snags with their proposed delivery robots and decided to try the old tried and true ballistics style delivery. The math of projectiles is pretty easy except ever changing wind conditions are hard account for.
Good thing this was on the news locally. Somewhere there is someone on the horn with Amazon right now bitching that their frozen Italian sausage never arrived.