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
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A crowbar to the side is what eventually broke it open.
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 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
That's the standard practice in most countries- if you take the whole unit you can break into it later!
Unless your partner in crime is a SKANK!
we had a rash of people doing that to ATMs in the US, too.
And no one went up to it with an angle grinder? Pretty sure you can cut it with a diamond blade.
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.)
Go on facebook marketplace, buy cheapest car near me that runs rhe have "car accident" in the wee hours.
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.
Find a spark plug, crumble, embed in shoe sole by stepping on it, jumpkick glass, become legend.
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.
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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.
You guys are all coming at this like they put real money in there
https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/3m-three-million-dollars-vancouver-bus-stop-cash-stunt
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!"
Because they didn’t actually want to give away any of their money. We’re toys for them and they made us dance
The planet broke before the guard!
thanks for the article, it seems there are rules that you can only kick the glass too, that's why everyone is kicking it.
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
i ate the onion
Bulletproof glass, but they didn't allow tools? Is this the company that made glass for the cybertruck?
3M bulletproof* glass.
*kickproof
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~ ~your~ ~doctor~ ~before~ ~trying~
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.
That’s the point.
They didn’t want anyone to be actually able to get the money.
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.
Not the glass, the metal frame was being slowly destroyed though.
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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.
I think they limited you to only being able to kick it
Are you gonna tell the guy who shows up with a .500 Smith and Wesson revolver he’s not allowed to shoot it?
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.
Go kick a window in your house right now. If you don't live in a highrise, you can almost certainly kick it out.
Please don't. Chances are high that the window is not made of security glass and if you kick the glass in, you'll get serious cuts in your leg. That'll range from a flesh wound to life threatening damage in a blood vessel.
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The gimmick was you couldn't do it with tools.
You can't use anything at all if it's effective actually.
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Some of those Minnesota studded shoes would help. Can’t go slipping on the ice, can we, best to be prepared.
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.....
This was a marketing gimmick, they had guards to make sure no one actually broke it
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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.
There was a guard. It was only $500. People were invited to kick it, but it was monitored.
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