Could a four year old break a rear windscreen by throwing...
Could a four year old break a rear windscreen by throwing...
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Lemmonie

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284 months

Friday 6th January 2012
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stones at it.........

limpsfield

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282 months

Friday 6th January 2012
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Possibly.

TheHeretic

73,668 posts

284 months

Friday 6th January 2012
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Depends how big the stones are.

limpsfield

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282 months

Friday 6th January 2012
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And how thin the screen

Bill

58,641 posts

284 months

Friday 6th January 2012
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Probably. I would check but he's asleep and a broken rear window would be inconvenient right now.

HTH.

Nick3point2

3,920 posts

209 months

Friday 6th January 2012
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Yes

Plotloss

67,280 posts

299 months

Friday 6th January 2012
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Why was a 4 year old throwing stones at a car for this question to even come up?

jimxms

1,635 posts

189 months

Friday 6th January 2012
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If the 4yr old was on a footbridge over a motorway, then yes definitely.

CoolC

4,500 posts

243 months

Friday 6th January 2012
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Yes

I've done demostrations breaking a rear screen on an Eos with nothing more than a small piece of gravel.

It doesn't need to be thrown very hard, so I imagine a 4 year old getting "lucky" could break one.

It all depends how sharp the points on the stone are, a rounded piece of pebble could well bounce off, but a small peice of flint would almost certainly break it first time.

Lemmonie

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Friday 6th January 2012
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its a long story i cant arsed to retell but my son has been accused of such a crime.
PersonallyI cant see how a four year can completely smash a rear screen on a 51 plate golf but I stand to be corrected. (even though several teens close by were seen throwing "stuff" into the car park several mins after and that i was standing in front of the car with my son in hand as the screen actually smashed. Although he was seen trowing stones at the car 4 mins previously.

Im sure i dont need to explain my extreme disapointment nor the fact he was of course very much repremanded for throwing stones at cars regardless.

PHmember

2,487 posts

200 months

Friday 6th January 2012
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Tomorrow's topic: Could a four year old break by being thrown through a rear windscreen?

Lemmonie

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Friday 6th January 2012
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PHmember said:
Tomorrow's topic: Could a four year old break by being thrown through a rear windscreen?
believe me if i had seen him do it myself we'd know!


limpsfield

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282 months

Friday 6th January 2012
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I would blame it on an -ism. There must be one for kids smashing windscreens by now.

I am trying to come up for one for my son for slamming my bloody car doors all the time.

Lemmonie

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Friday 6th January 2012
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Little sodism?

limpsfield

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Friday 6th January 2012
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Perfect - the catch all for the little sts till they are 18

Waugh-terfall

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229 months

Friday 6th January 2012
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Yes. Back at Sixth Form, we were all messing about in the student carpark in the evening sun having returned from a Geography day trip, someone chucked a bit of gravel in the air to catch it, but instead it caught the rear windscreen of one of the lads' cars. Whole thing shattered and fell away instantly, he had a 16mi blast down the A3 in a very windy 106 that evening...

Lemmonie

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Friday 6th January 2012
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but the screen did not shatter instantly. It shattered at least 4 mins after "possibly" being thrown at.

4mins after the kids there had been removed.

Waugh-terfall

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229 months

Friday 6th January 2012
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Could have chipped it, which just for whatever reason suddenly developed into a crack and spread?

TheHeretic

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284 months

Friday 6th January 2012
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Lemmonie said:
but the screen did not shatter instantly. It shattered at least 4 mins after "possibly" being thrown at.

4mins after the kids there had been removed.
Other kids 'possibly' threw stuff at the screen, whereas your child did. Accept your kid was a sod, and pay up.

Backtobasics

1,182 posts

212 months

Friday 6th January 2012
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doubtful, probably youths