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Post by SylvreKat on May 22, 2014 21:28:47 GMT -5
I was driving on the Interstate going to my toe-dr's appt when there was this huge POW!!! and the back window exploded inwards! Yes, I screamed like a girl, probably did several times. Pulled over, called 911 and gave what's likely their most hysterical call all month. All I could think of was shooter, thanks to the nut we had a couple months ago that got his jollies shooting cars on a different interstate. He's in jail, but I thought maybe somebody else decided that sounded like fun to be in the news like that.
Cop came and said not a shooter, since I had my passenger window open all it takes is a little crack in the tempered glass and a little flex (like hitting a bump) along with the wind pressure and POW!!! And since I rear-ended someone two weeks ago (very low speed, scuffed her bumper's paint but cracked mine, go fig) that could've very well created a small crack of some kind.
My body guy said the car next to me probably kicked up a rock which hit just wrong and made it explode. There is a new paint chip just under the glass' edge, which I'm pretty certain wasn't there last week when I got into the back.
So, theorize for me. What made my back window explode into my car? I mean, there were chunks of glass in the footwell behind my seat! That's six feet of back end it flew through! EDITED to add--I forgot to say, poster with the best theory (as chosen by myself) gets to reach into my fabulous bag for an amazing V-prize!
And yes, guys, I sat there crying and afraid 'til the cop showed. I mean, I was seriously scared it was a copy-cat shooter. Really. Totally and completely freaked out.
>'Kat
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Post by flyangler on May 23, 2014 7:00:07 GMT -5
Kat, I believe the age of your vehicle and the age of the glass played a part in the breakage, whatever flexibility that glass had when installed in 92 was no longer there and it would not have taken much to break it. That would be my opinion with 25 years in a body shop.
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Post by SylvreKat on May 23, 2014 13:44:33 GMT -5
What, are you saying my car's old or something? Huh? Huh?  I will say, it is a big chunk o' glass. And it just sits there against the molding, with only the hinges and the vacuum-bar thingies holding it in. Well, and its own weight. And my lift gate's bar-thingies work just fine holding up the lid, when it's missing several many pounds of glass. Go fig'. >'Kat, waiting to award that V-prize in case someone else posts a theory less age-discriminatory against my poor wagon. |
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Post by SylvreKat on May 23, 2014 13:49:25 GMT -5
Btb, vaguely-related story. When work remodeled, they installed new glass in the inner "glass wall". Huge sheets of glass. Excuse me, HUGE sheets! The workers apparently flexed one of the sheets a little too much, and it exploded everywhere. Jolly fun cleaning up THAT mess. The glass guys had to do most of it. But it sure was exciting to see. Almost as good as watching the fluorescent lightbulb slowly drop from its fixture to the ground. You want explosion, that one wins. Glad nobody was under it, 'cause with no one hurt I can thoroughly enjoy my memory of that. And it really did drop slowly. Weird. But way-neat! But car window exploding? Not nearly as neat.  >'Kat |
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Post by craisin on Jun 4, 2014 21:05:51 GMT -5
I think there was a mad shooter and when he saw you in his telescopic sight he was blinded by your beauty so he muffed the shot and the window took the bullet for you.
Seriously when i was young i had a convertible and was driving over Auckland Harbour Bridge and the top was down something hit my watch made a hole in the glass dented the face and it didnt go no more. If it was a gun it could only be an air powered gun. There may have been people working on the bridge above me and dropped something.
have a nice day its a sunny winter day in NZ
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Post by rockynv on Jun 5, 2014 4:07:04 GMT -5
Stones get flipped by passing cars and trucks all the time shattereing windows. Its more common than you think and the stones the flip out from under the edge of a compressed tire of a car and especially a heavy truck or bus will hit at very high speed with very substantial force.
My mother had a hole puched in one of her hurricane windows (which were rated close to 200 mph and shatter proof) by a small rock flipped by the tire of potentially the UPS truck and it went through clean like a bullet. The rock was more of a chipstone barely 1/2 inch across and the house is set back about 30 or so feet from the roadway and elevated about 4 feet higher. We were fortunate that she was not outside watering the shubs under the window at the time as it could have been fatal.
Old or new a car window does not have much of a chance. That is another reason you should not linger next to a SemiTrailer or other Large Truck especially when riding as there is more than one good reason that MSF calls it the Dead Zone.
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Post by craisin on Jun 6, 2014 1:07:05 GMT -5
if you hadnt guessed i was just having her on  |
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Post by spandi on Jun 6, 2014 2:31:43 GMT -5
Oh Jeez, This is so obvious. It was a "Magic rock" it flew in the back window, waited for 1.5 seconds midair then zig-zaged over the seat did a quick u-turn out the window, turned around and slammed into the rear, breaking the glass, and that is the OFFICIAL finding! (All kidding aside I'm glad you're ok, windows can be replaced, you can't.)  |
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Post by rockynv on Jun 6, 2014 3:26:02 GMT -5
The stone probably just grazed the glass and then continued on across the roadway and is now hidden amoung the rest of the pebbles and gravel. Remember car jackers will shatter your side window with a single steel ball less than 1/4" in diameter from a bearing.
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Post by larrball on Jun 6, 2014 3:46:07 GMT -5
Kat,back in my younger days (1985) i worked for a glass company called "Thurm-Alum" we had the contract for a high rise in Sarasota Fl. this is a pic of it.  Now the Glass is 3/8 inch thick and can withstand up to 200 miles per hour winds. You can beat the glass all day long in the center of the glass with a hammer BUT you as dare tap the edge of it even ever so slightly and poof- game over. (and $2000.00 of glass on the floor) The sheet's are for the most part 3' X 12' @ 3/8 " thick. I think a rock or the like hit your window just right and boom.. there she blows. Edit: that would be 2 - 6' glass panes in one 12' Aluminium frame to =12' |
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Post by justbuggin2 on Jun 6, 2014 6:57:19 GMT -5
i had the same thing happen to me it was a hot summer day and it had came a sudden shower out of the blue the back glass made a loud pop sound and was broken into thousands of pieces the only reason it did not fly all over was for the tint film on it
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Post by SylvreKat on Jun 7, 2014 16:14:00 GMT -5
My thanks to everyone who offered answers. And gratefulness I wasn't hurt (well, beyond a raging case of hysterics).
So the winner of the amazing v-prize is....
...LARRBALL, 'cause he included a really cool photo. Go on, here's my fabulous Bag o' V-Prizes. Reach on in and help yourself to whatever prize you imagine! Be sure to brag about what you got.
Runner up is craisin for saying the theoretical shooter was blinded by my beauty. What gal doesn't want to read that?!
Second runner up is spandi for taking everyone's rock answer and magicking it up.
Ah, heck, why don't all of you grab a v-prize, after larr'? You all deserve something. Just let larrball pick first, since he is the winner. And don't make yours better than his--only fair, you know.
>'Kat, watching out for those Magic Rocks flying around searching for windows to explode! (and why don't we have a smiley for that, I wonder?!)
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Post by rockynv on Jun 8, 2014 6:13:14 GMT -5
At least they didn't find you slumped over the steering wheel with a wad of Pillsbury Pop and Serve Dough stuck to the back of your head claiming you had been shot in the head and that your brains were oozing out. No rocks involved just summer heat and a warm Pop and Serve Rolls container sitting in the sun too long. Yes she was blonde.
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Post by craisin on Jun 9, 2014 1:56:51 GMT -5
Imaginary prizes well my imagination has failed me can i have a real prize till my imagination returns??
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Post by SylvreKat on Jun 9, 2014 6:12:21 GMT -5
How about reaching in and snagging yourself some imagination, craisin? >'Kat |
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