Thursday, August 26, 2010

Don't punch normal windows.

If you live in Baton Rouge you probably have glass your automobile, and in the "industry" they call this "auto glass".  Auto glass is important.  You may have never thought about it before but this is what keeps those regular bugs, and those uncoordinated birds from hitting your face as you do 90 mph down the freeway.  So yea, it's important.

You may think auto glass is just like other glass, but it isn't.  Try this:

- Go to a car window and punch your arm through it.

You'll probably be ok.  Now do that with a house window.  You probably noticed that the house window kind of shattered and shards of glass then slashed you all up.  See how that hurts a lot more when the glass shatters?  That's why auto glass is designed to stay in it's place even when broken.  It has a coating or a film of sorts that keeps the glass from just shooting around and cutting people up. 

In my first car roll because of the age of the car the glass wasn't all auto glass safe, so it shattered and actually landed in this girl's back.  Very unfortunate for her.  Luckily in cars built today that isn't an issue.

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