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

[Larry C Leung]

Windsheilds (US) are laminated so that they stay together. The others are
tempered so that they do break into those tiny little pieces. I know, I
was picking them out of my GTi for up to 5 years after it was broken
into. And that was the small stationary "vent" window of the door.

LL - NY

On Tue, 15 Jan 2002 23:30:30 -0500 Huw Powell <audi at mediaone.net> writes:
>> 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.
>
>OK, this is getting out of hand.  Grab crowbar, swing at window,
>crowbar
>bounces.  Swing harder, window breaks into 1000 tiny little bits that
>gently fall one by one with the prettiest sound imaginable.
>
>Windsheilds are less fun as they tend to stay in place rather than
>gently collapse with 1000 tinkles.
>
>Side windows just sorta disintegrate all at once - now you see them,
>now
>you don't.
>
>Kicking the inside of a windsheild breaks it, but probably won't make
>a
>hole.
>
>Haven't tried kicking out the other windows from inside yet.
>
>But I will, give me time...  all the windows around here right now
>are
>either in cars I'm driving, or will want to use, or already broken.
>
>--
>Huw Powell
>
>http://www.humanspeakers.com/audi/
>
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