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Title: Breaking auto glass with your fingers?
Post by: Grant Lamontagne on December 04, 2015, 12:23:19 AM
If this is true then no one needs glass breaking tools:

http://speedsociety.com/how-to-break-a-car-window-with-your-fingers/?source=gmg

I don't think I'll be giving up my ResQMe any time soon!

Def
Title: Re: Breaking auto glass with your fingers?
Post by: enki_ck on December 04, 2015, 12:28:31 AM
Neither did the instructor. Pull his finger :pok:

(http://i1255.photobucket.com/albums/hh627/enki_ck/Mics/Untitled_1.jpg)

Title: Re: Breaking auto glass with your fingers?
Post by: SAK Guy on December 04, 2015, 01:06:01 AM
(http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_B9kO-7TQ__M/TODoThW7zEI/AAAAAAAAAXE/JmmidunaWQQ/s1600/obi+wan+kenobi.jpg)
Title: Re: Breaking auto glass with your fingers?
Post by: styx on December 04, 2015, 09:05:56 AM
Didn't mythbusters kill this one?
Title: Re: Breaking auto glass with your fingers?
Post by: enki_ck on December 04, 2015, 09:10:13 AM
Didn't mythbusters kill this one?
Which one? The instructor has a resqme rigged to his index finger. That yellow thing you can see in the screencap I posted. That's what broke the window.
Title: Re: Breaking auto glass with your fingers?
Post by: styx on December 04, 2015, 03:29:24 PM
The original video of tapping the glass into breakage
Title: Re: Breaking auto glass with your fingers?
Post by: Gerhard Gerber on December 07, 2015, 02:15:25 PM
A buddy punched a taxi driver right through his closed window.....but the window was NOT fully closed....

.......his forearm was cut and his hand a bit messed up, but nothing serious.....
Title: Re: Breaking auto glass with your fingers?
Post by: Aloha on December 07, 2015, 09:42:40 PM
Auto glass is pretty tough stuff.  I'm not giving up my spring loaded center punch either.