SF Gate: Freak fire traps man inside Audi...

[David Miller]

I entirely agree with all of these statements.  I've gone through quite a
few windows in junkyards, and I was unable to break the rear window glass on
a 5000tq by swinging a large bat at it.  A friend of mine had to go get a
brick and heave it through.  The good thing about auto glass is that it
shatters into non sharp fragments.  I've sat on entire car fulls of these
fragments in the junkyard and I feel entirely safe doing so.

David Miller

on 1/15/02 6:42 PM, Larry C Leung at l.leung at juno.com wrote:

> The way to break windows is to use a sharp heavy implement to shatter a
> few molecules which gets the glass to go POP! Unfortunately a shoe or
> fist doesn't qualify, the force is spread out too much (i.e. not enough
> pressure) to get the glass to break. I guess for safety, I'll have to
> keep my rock hammer inside the car instead of in the trunk. I wonder if I
> can get one with either:
>
> A matching leather handle to the upholstery, or
> Matching Pearl or Woodgrain
>
> ;-)
>
> LL - NY
>
> On Mon, 14 Jan 2002 18:29:21 -0800 "Darringer, Chris"
> <Chris.Darringer at schwab.com> writes:
>> <<
>> I've never had a problem with getting out of my car- it's not that
>> hard
>> to pull up on the lock pin.
>>>>
>>
>> I have heard stories about people trapped in sinking cars, etc.  I
>> also have
>> this (mis)conception that, if I really needed to, I could give any one
>> of my
>> windows a swift kick (or jab) and knock it out.  I mean, people break
>> windows to steal stuff, surely I could break a window to save my own
>> life,
>> right?
>>
>> Is it harded than I think to punch out one of these windows?
>>
>> Maybe this could be a new exercise at the Quattro club events ;)
>>
>> Chris
>> '90 80q