I wish they did this right now. Breaking through bulletproof glass is easy with the right tools. A flying dropkick is not one of them.
Anon wants $3 million
Submitted 3 months ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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Etterra@discuss.online 3 months ago
Maalus@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The gimmick was you couldn’t do it with tools.
Valmond@lemmy.world 3 months ago
You can’t use anything at all if it’s effective actually.
AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 3 months ago
Fuck the rules, it’s 3 million, I’m going to do whatever is necessary to smash that glass 😎
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Define tools. Does a .50bmg SLAP count? Because there’s no way that glass is rated to take anti-mat rounds.
Of course you can’t do it without tools, I wouldn’t want to break a regular window without tools, get my hand all cut up again and shit (last time was an accident). “No tools” makes the contest meaningless.
ohshittheyknow@lemmynsfw.com 3 months ago
The real gimmick is there isn’t really 3 million in there.
Donkter@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Walk up with steel stilettos and a practiced kick and you might have a shot.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
I think they limited you to only being able to kick it
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 3 months ago
What is the point then. I’d be pissed if someone was able to break a regular window by kicking it. If you have to prove that your bullet proof glass can stand up to kicks I’m not going to be confident in your product. Let people bring their own shit and show what it would take to get through it. You know, unless it sucks, which I assume to be the actual case here.
CarterH739@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That makes sense. When I read that, my immediate thought was: demo saw.
MisanthropiCynic@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Are you gonna tell the guy who shows up with a .500 Smith and Wesson revolver he’s not allowed to shoot it?
DaddleDew@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I call BS. There are still tools and ways you could easily break through it. Plenty of which are far better than just kicking it.
ch00f@lemmy.world 3 months ago
There was a guard. It was only $500. People were invited to kick it, but it was monitored.
taiyang@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Ah, I’m going to miss Snopes in the post-truth society. :(
pennomi@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Dremel with a diamond drill bit would make quick work of that
50MYT@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Bus stop.
Bus.
Pretty sure if the bus went at it fast enough backwards it would do better than some clown and his size 11s
Limonene@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Pretty much any tool with a cutting surface made of tungsten, high speed steel, or industrial diamond.
But one source I found says they only let people use their feet.
Sabata11792@ani.social 3 months ago
If it’s 3 million dollars, my car at 30mph should handle it.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 months ago
No no no. Chop chop master onion head taught me everything I need to know.
Kick punch it’s all in the mind, if ya wanna test me, I’m sure you’ll find, the things I teach ya are sure to beat ya! Nevertheless you get a lesson from teacher! Now…
KICK!
Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Step on the gas.
…O…O…O…X…
Fenrisulfir@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
You guys are all coming at this like they put real money in there
bountygiver@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
thanks for the article, it seems there are rules that you can only kick the glass too, that’s why everyone is kicking it.
Fenrisulfir@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Ya for sure. No rules and a true $3M prize will have a group of us with jeeps and winches pulling it apart in 30min
Carl@lemm.ee 3 months ago
The marketing stunt came to a halt after just one day when the security guard noticed the metal frame of the glass case had been weakened from the constant barrage of physical pressure.
Why not just let people keep going until someone breaks the frame? Still makes for a good marketing blurb - “the iron broke before the glass did!”
Fenrisulfir@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Because they didn’t actually want to give away any of their money. We’re toys for them and they made us dance
AEsheron@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The planet broke before the guard!
stm@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
i ate the onion
DemBoSain@midwest.social 3 months ago
Bulletproof glass, but they didn’t allow tools? Is this the company that made glass for the cybertruck?
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That’s the point.
They didn’t want anyone to be actually able to get the money.
Comment105@lemm.ee 3 months ago
3M bulletproof* glass.
*kickproof
drathvedro@lemm.ee 3 months ago
The marketing stunt came to a halt after just one day when the security guard noticed the metal frame of the glass case had been weakened from the constant barrage of physical pressure.
** Kickproof™ is a trademark name of 3M Corporation. ~all~ ~kicks~ ~are~ ~performed~ ~by~ ~trained~ ~professionals;~ ~not~ ~resistant~ ~to~ ~kicking;~ ~consult~ ~with~ ~doctor~ ~before~ ~trying~
wolfpack86@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I think bullet proof is only part of the urban legend piece of the story. It says security glass and snopes did not use the term bullet proof either.
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 3 months ago
PR, only installed for the photoshoot, if that.
AnAustralianPhotographer@lemmy.world 3 months ago
If it was done in Australia, I reckon the 3 mil wouldnt last 24 hours. Possible tools I’d say would be used are :- 1) Ute 2) Bobcat 3) Backhoe & 4) Bulldozer, not necessarily in that order…
AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 3 months ago
This was a marketing gimmick, they had guards to make sure no one actually broke it
AnAustralianPhotographer@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Well that changes things. Then probably some fluro vest wearing people would unexpectedly turn up from the ‘council’ and want to take the exhibit away early cause they got the call there were some ‘thieving bastards’ about and you couldn’t trust anyone.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 3 months ago
- Boomerang
the most effective tool/weapon of all
latenightnoir@lemmy.world 3 months ago
They should’ve tried doing this in Romania, the entire bus stop would have disappeared overnight…
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 3 months ago
Half of Europe: Romanians steal everything!
Otther half of Europe: Czechs steal everything!latenightnoir@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yeah, it was unfair of me to propagate the stereotype (speaking as a Romanian myself). We have a lot of good people around here, who’re just doing their best to be decent and get by.
But it’s not easy being an honest citizen in a country where the most prolific thieves are the people who’re supposed to govern it… Corruption has been the main thing plaguing these lands ever since the Revolution, when the profiteers saw an opportunity to sell this country for parts…
To be clear, I’m not siding with the former “Communist” regime, which was a Totalitarian cesspit, but I sure as fuck don’t agree with the mockery of Democracy which came after that, either…
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 3 months ago
I was so certain the link would lead to the website of the British Museum.
trolololol@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Pwffft they’re trying to break it with their feet, so cute.
In Brazil they wrap ATM s in chains and rip them off using trucks. Then take the ATM to a safe house and bust it open. That is happening since 1990s.
I was surprised when I saw someone doing the same in Australia, with a constructions site digger. I think it was last year.
Conclusion: Brazil exports crime 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
merthyr1831@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
That’s the standard practice in most countries- if you take the whole unit you can break into it later!
Rawdogthatexe@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Unless your partner in crime is a SKANK!
licheas@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
we had a rash of people doing that to ATMs in the US, too.
Rolive@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months ago
Can’t you get like, a diamond drill bit and just give it a light tap? Tempered glass breaks easily if the outside layer is compromised.
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Bullet proof “glass” isn’t just tempered glass in fact it never was the original was just glass layered with plastic but the new stuff is made from multiple layers of different materials each specialized to cover the others weakness, think fascism literally means to fassen together like a bundle of sticks that is harder to break than one stick(I don’t know why my mind went to fascism in retrospect a yin yang would be more accurate anyways)
bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Laminates are pretty common in many applications. Lots of things built from wood use several layers glued together. Or think of a lasagna.
bestboyfriendintheworld@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Laminates are pretty common in many applications. Lots of things built from wood use several layers glued together. Or think of a lasagna.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
They didn’t allow tools. I wonder if those metal sole insert things could be used to help go through this.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Just embed a tip in-between the ridges of a boot.
NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org 3 months ago
Find a spark plug, crumble, embed in shoe sole by stepping on it, jumpkick glass, become legend.
Death_Equity@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That helps with the glass, but bulletproof glass uses multiple polymer layers and tempered glass layers alternating.
So you would only get through the top glass layer and do nothing to the polymer layers or 2nd layer of glass.
topherclay@lemmy.world 3 months ago
The ceramic edges of broken spark plugs are really good at breaking tempered glass, but tempered glass is on a certain sense the opposite of bullet proof glass.
Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
This sounds like an absolutely terrible idea. Aside from the people that will hurt themselves trying to break that glass, it’s a public bus stop. People will hurt bystanders and damage the bus stop and make it in general a place no one wants to be because of idiots constantly hurling stuff around or kicking it while you’re trying to wait for the bus.
bier@feddit.nl 2 months ago
If I was driving the bus I would just brake a little too late when arriving at that stop.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 3 months ago
Why didn’t they just open it with a screwdriver and pry bar? Or steal the whole bus stop?
JeSuisUnHombre@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Hey is bullet proof, not foot proof
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 months ago
foot clan operations intensify
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
Get a long industrial chain, tie it around the display, drag the whole thing away with a truck. Drag all the way out to the middle of nowhere and then take your time figuring out how to break, take part, cut, burn, explode or destroy the glass.
gibmiser@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Box truck with Faraday cage for blocking gps.
MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 3 months ago
This reminds me of that breaking bad episode.
cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 3 months ago
You should be able to bust it open using liquid nitrogen and warn water. I don’t think that the glass is made for being able to tank temperature differences of over 200°C
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 2 months ago
A crowbar to the side is what eventually broke it open.
Pulptastic@midwest.social 3 months ago
Some of those Minnesota studded shoes would help. Can’t go slipping on the ice, can we, best to be prepared.
olafurp@lemmy.world 3 months ago
And no one went up to it with an angle grinder? Pretty sure you can cut it with a diamond blade.
licheas@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
the plastic in the lamination would foul it.
Personally… I would have gotten a hammer-drill and put a chisle bit on it. It’ll take time but you’ll get there. Alternatively, I’d attack the seam around it (Cutter spreader should take that nicely.) (you can rent a hammer drill for like… 50 bucks. and I know you can rent various types of cutter spreaders, too.)
Boomkop3@reddthat.com 3 months ago
Well, I’d give it a shot at least. You won’t catch me saying I haven’t tried
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yeah, but after you’ve taken a shot of vodka, what are you going to do about the money?
x4740N@lemm.ee 3 months ago
Just get a ute and some angle grinders, detach the entire thing from the bus stop qt the dead of night and take your time to work on it at home
Just make sure your hiding your identity
Use a super common ute with a number plate switcher that rolls the number plates and switch number plates in a large enough area with camera deadspots
Then ditch the car somewhere, light it up to incinerate it and switch to another vehicle in another camera deadspot
geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Have they tried shooting it?
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Story goes that it was only up for an incredibly brief window (heh) and that tools were disallowed for all of the pre-screened participants of the competition. Supposedly, even with all of these measures in place, something still went wrong with the glass, causing the competition to run short.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
And it was $500, not $3M.
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Source pls
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Here you go https://www.cnn.com/videos/business/2020/03/23/million-dollar-glass-comp-orig.cnn
Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Google.com
nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
so who won
Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Some marketing agency
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Iunno, no one, I think.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 months ago
Who’s next?
AEsheron@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Not the glass, the metal frame was being slowly destroyed though.