Topic: This is why owning a bike in San Francisco SUCKS!!!

[anthony]

i had some old plugs a some glass kicking around so i tried this. i had as1 side glass out of a 92 chev pick up and as2 windshield same truck and a piece of tempered glass out of the front of a stove. the spark plug was a br9es. i had a friend throw the piece. he could not brake any of the glass.

[Anti-Johnny]

was he aiming at the center of the glass or the edges? Also, everyone knows the 92 chevy windows were made of kryptonian glass, unbreakable.

[CycleRanger]

http://www.astm.org/DIGITAL_LIBRARY/JOURNALS/FORENSIC/PAGES/JFS12301J.htm

From 1985.


Abstract
 A novel and efficient method for forced entry into vehicles using broken spark plug insulators to break the windows was reviewed. Various experiments were performed in which a number of objects, varying in their physical characteristics, were compared to the broken ceramic plus insulators in order to examine the uniqueness of the latter in the breaking of tempered glass. A plausible mechanism was presented attributing the great efficiency of the insulators to their hardness in relation to other materials (MOHS scale), and to their potential for the concentration of force in one point because of the sharp, jagged ends.

[anthony]

automatic center punch works every time.

[faux fiddy]

At least we can buy socks on Sunday now!

Huh? 

I think that has to do with the Texas Blue laws. For instance if Socks-R-Us wanted to break for the Sabbath in celebration of Jeezus, then other [read SATANIC] businesses that sold socks would be in unfair competition with the good Christians who close on Sunday. It was particularly effective on making sure there was  no beer on Sundays back in the day.

I think that is what Tipster is referring to, the "blue Laws."

And back on topic, can't we train these spark plug crackers to sell pencils on the street corner and cooperatively realize that buying a pencil on the street corner might be a way to also reduce crime by inderect means?

I mean for real. last time  those f#$@kers hit  cost us almost $700 in glass and parts to smash and grab a radar detector that was worth perhaps $10  at the pawnbroker.