Broken

[Mullet]

Alright so I woke up this morning feeling pretty good, I pulled the curtains, I went outside for a quick slash, came back, turned on some music went to go back to bed and then I flicked off my jandals, which flew through the air and straight into my huge 2 metre high bedroom window shattering it to hell. so I've just spent the last hour trying to chisel out all the putty and glass one cm at a time. Has anyone else had a catastrophic window break. Come on just humour me, my window could cost $400.

[Ilaekae]

I never broke a window, but I broke a city inspector once...

I once owned a huge half-block building I was gutting to turn into my offices back in the seventies. Did the work myself with a bunch of kids hired off the street. No education. No fear. Very creative--in a "wonder if it blows up?" kind of way.

We stripped one 13-foot-high room down to bare timbers. Literally timbers. The building was so old the walls were framed from REAL 6x6s--rough cut---right from the saw mill. We just cleared a wall 16 feet wide, 13 feet high when my favorite city-pain-in-the-ass-inspector showed up, and when he saw the size of the wall, screamed that it was definitely a load-bearing wall and we'd have to quit immediately or the entire building would come down.

One of the kids said it didn't seem all that solid, so wtf?

Inspector threatened to have him arrested. Kid kicked wall and gave inspector the finger.

Entire wall slowly fell gracefully in direction of me and inspector--missed me completely, landed on inspectors left foot.

Called 911, sent inspector to hospital--AFTER he signed doc stating wall was NOT load bearing. No charges. Gave kid raise...

I really hate fuckin' beaurocrats...

[Floris Didden]

Hahaha awesome, Ilaekae.

[jkior]

YES an Ilaekae story! eh I guess. . .we (family+bunch of friends) were gutting an office space. . .anyway I pulled off a huge chunk of drywall and threw it down. At of course the perfect angle to roll across the floor about ten feet and right through a floor-ceiling window. haha go indiana!

[Professor Az]

Back in the day when you could have BB-gun fights and not have to worry about stupid things like "safety", some friends and I entered some new apartments that were still in the last stages of construction. All of the walls were up, and the sliding glass doors had all ben installed, but all of the doors were not put in yet.

Standing in the courtyard between the apartment buildings, I was borrowing a friend's BB-gun, a new CO2 repeater. My BB-pistol was a pump, and I didn't quite know how to use his rifle, so I called out to him how do I load this thing with CO2? He says release the safety, so I do. Apparently, you're not supposed to have already cocked it, thus loading a new BB into the firing chamber.

Next thing I know, the CO2 bursts out of the end of the rifle, and one of the new sliding glass doors on one of the second floor apartments shatters. Not just one door, mind you. Since each slifing glass door was left open, I managed to take out the door behind it as well.

I think I broke the 200-meter dash record getting out of there. :tihi:

[mlsfishi]

Had a neighbor's lawn mower shoot a small rock at our car's window, shattered the driver's side window and scared us all to hell.

[timpaatkins]

Aleep in my bed, living in Stockholm on the ground floor, i suddenly awoke from the sound of glass shattering. It sounded like they were emptying one of those return bottle igloo thingies in my bedsit. I turned on the light. Seems someone decided to throw a garden table through my 3 pane window. The window measured 1.5 x 1.5 meters. = pretty fucking big. It scared the shit out of me. 2 DAYS EARLIER I had decided to move my bed from under that exact same window. If not Id probably be dead now. I didnt have to pay, the landlord did, but a month later the bastard upped my rent 150 bucks a month...

[magicgoo]

Jeez, timpaatkins! A garden table?? Next time, rent an apartment room that's 5 stories up :)

When I lived in the ghetto, someone broke the driver's side window of my car and stole everything inside. I was picking tiny pieces of safety glass from my upholstery for the next year or so.