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.
Source pls
Why even participate in online discussion
Takes just about as long to type a query into Google as it does to type "source please" and wait there with your hand out
See my previous comment
This was a good reminder to check a link before to click
URL check saves me once again. I can't believe how many people just raw dog links.
Good name. You're doing good work!
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.
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.
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
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.)
If my memory is correct there's a guard just out of frame that was preventing that stuff.
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.
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
They should've tried doing this in Romania, the entire bus stop would have disappeared overnight...
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