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.
Good name. You're doing good work!
so who won
Some marketing agency
Who's next?
Not the glass, the metal frame was being slowly destroyed though.
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.
The gimmick was you couldn't do it with tools.
You can't use anything at all if it's effective actually.
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.
The real gimmick is there isn't really 3 million in there.
Walk up with steel stilettos and a practiced kick and you might have a shot.
I think they limited you to only being able to kick 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.
That makes sense. When I read that, my immediate thought was: demo saw.
Are you gonna tell the guy who shows up with a .500 Smith and Wesson revolver he’s not allowed to shoot it?
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
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
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!
i ate the onion
Bulletproof glass, but they didn't allow tools? Is this the company that made glass for the cybertruck?
That’s the point.
They didn’t want anyone to be actually able to get the money.
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.
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.
Ah, I'm going to miss Snopes in the post-truth society. :(
Dremel with a diamond drill bit would make quick work of that
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
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.
If it's 3 million dollars, my car at 30mph should handle it.
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!
Step on the gas.
...O....O...O....X..
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.
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.
If I was driving the bus I would just brake a little too late when arriving at that stop.
PR, only installed for the photoshoot, if that.
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
Well that changes things. Then probably some fluro vest wearing people (one carrying a clipboard) 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.
5 ) Boomerang
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.
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 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
A crowbar to the side is what eventually broke it open.
They should've tried doing this in Romania, the entire bus stop would have disappeared overnight...
Half of Europe: Romanians steal everything!
Otther half of Europe: Czechs steal everything!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 all in all, but I sure as fuck don't agree with the mockery of Democracy which came after that, either...
Edit: thank you so much for the article! As far as I'm concerned (and I'm sure this applies to a lot of my fellow compatriots), everyone on our lands is a Romanian. That has been one of our greatest virtues as a people, we accepted everyone among us. Sure, not everyone has noble intentions, but people are just people and they deserve to be given a chance. Too bad we've grown so hostile and closed-minded over time... God damn it, this hurts... We have such a rich history of persevering through oppression, only to be pushed toward being oppressors. And it's not the citizenry's fault, our "leaders" have pushed us to the brink...
I was so certain the link would lead to the website of the British Museum.
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.)
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.
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)
They didn't allow tools. I wonder if those metal sole insert things could be used to help go through this.
Just embed a tip in-between the ridges of a boot.
Why didn’t they just open it with a screwdriver and pry bar? Or steal the whole bus stop?
Man steps into bus whole bus stop on his back. Bus driver doesn't even flinch. Happens every day.
Hey it's bullet proof, not foot proof
foot clan operations intensify
Some of those Minnesota studded shoes would help. Can’t go slipping on the ice, can we, best to be prepared.
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.
Box truck with Faraday cage for blocking gps.
This reminds me of that breaking bad episode.
Just get a ute and some angle grinders, detach the entire thing from the bus stop at 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
Have they tried shooting it?
