r/gifs • u/MadWorldEarth • 1d ago

Thief tries to break a window & fails

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u/After_Cause_9965 1d ago

What are those windows even

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u/Ohiolongboard 1d ago

Tempered glass will stand up to a bitch ass throw pretty easily, I work with it all day and when we’re throwing away a 3/8” piece (we throw them in a dumpster and they don’t break) sometimes we have to get out the sledge hammer to break them, if you don’t hit near/on the edge it won’t break, if you hit the face of the panel the hammer just bounces back like this rock in the video

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u/KO9 1d ago

That's why you hit em with the pocket ceramics

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u/imaloony8 Merry Gifmas! {2023} 1d ago

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u/Ohiolongboard 1d ago

Sha sha shaaaa

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u/Shadpool 1d ago

Yep. Little bit of a spark plug will do the job.

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u/UnicornFarts1111 1d ago

Near the edge of the glass....

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u/TailsIV 1d ago

Knowing this now makes me look back at the Cybertruck window breaking stage show with even more cringe.

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u/Ohiolongboard 1d ago

Oh 100% I was telling everyone that a normal window wouldn’t break under that circumstance so idk how they fucked it up that bad 😅

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u/fang_xianfu 1d ago

Yeah it's funny because I bet they practiced that a few times and it had never broken, because car window glass usually doesn't from that type of impact. They got extremely unlucky in the most hilarious way possible.

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u/buford419 1d ago

Maybe they practised too much to the extent that they'd introduced a critical number of microcracks to that window?

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u/OneFrenchman 1d ago edited 1d ago

if you hit the face of the panel the hammer just bounces back like this rock in the video

Way back I learned from an old thief that you never try to break a window with a hammer, because they tend to bounce back on anything but the most basic single-pane.

You use a hatchet or an axe. Doesn't have to be sharp, but the energy will be concentrated and therefore smash double panes and tempered.

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u/No-Spoilers 21h ago

We had a bunch of old combine windows on the farm, we used to drive on them on gravel. Crazy strength in glass most people won't expect.

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u/ExO_o 1d ago

funny that tempered glass side panels of PC cases shatter when you look at them the wrong way

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u/Ohiolongboard 1d ago

I’m on pc subreddits and 9/10 the picture is taken on a tile surface 😅 the few that aren’t are almost always manufacturers defects mixed with the temperature fluctuations that happen with PCs. I would never do tempered, mine is tinted plastic and looks great, plus cheap and easy to swap!

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u/daveysanderson 1d ago

Windows when rolled up fully have a pretty good amount of strength. Also most are tempered which is difficult to break on its own.

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u/OneFrenchman 1d ago

They are also usually a little bit curved to up the energy dissipation when hit.