Freak Accident...

[Metaphor]

One of the wierdest things i have ever witnessed in my life happened aprox 10:30 pm on Friday July 13th 2007.

ill fast foward to this evening where this event took place. An average friday night, chillen in my yard with a few of my smokin buddies. We had just finished our first blunt nd our burgers we cooked on my grill. After chillin for a little while talkin nd smokin ciggs we decide to roll a joint. I come in my crib and grab some buds nd papers then go outside, my friends break up the bud and then i procede to roll this joint. (on a side note it was probably a gram of weed, half haze & half regs, we call it beef nd broccoli and the joint came out nice as ever. a great joint)

*Flick your bic*

About 3/4 of the way through the joint it happened all of a sudden. We hear a loud crash and the glass top table we were sitting around shattered into a hunded million pieces. The closest thing to spontaneous combustion ive ever seen. None of us were touching the table. we were leaning back in our seats passing around this jay. Nobody was taking anything off or putting anything down on the table. There was nothing hot nor nothing cold (the coldest thing was a glass of beer with ice). Nothing out of the ordinary was going on. The only items on the table were paper plates with a little food. Some bottles of bbq sauce, a couple cans o soda and beer. The only other items were my ipod w/ speakers and cell phone.

We have no idea what the fuck happened but we came up with a list of possibilities. (keep in mind we were pretty zooted)

- Someone shot it. either as a prank, just to scare us or a warning. A bbgun or low caliber handgun or rifle would have done the trick. Theres alot of trees behind me that a sniper could possibly hide

- A Ghost. I dont believe in ghosts whatsoever and ive never had any previous experiences that could be considered 'paranormal' but this is the closest thing.

- My Cell Phone sent out some sort of EMP or other type of shockwave that shattered the glass. Possibly some high frequency we (as humans) couldnt hear.

- Friday the 13 bad luck. Plain and simple. and im not supersticious in the slightest. (just the other day i was playin with an umbrella inside (honestly))

- A Note in the music could have possibly shattered the glass. I normaly listen to alot of psychedelic music and wouldnt be surprised in the slightest if there were modified sounds and frequncys in the music. possibly some attempt at subliminal messaging. I looked at my ipod and the song that was playin was Even In His Youth by Nirvana.

I am totally bugged out and have no idea what the fuck happend. i took alot of pictures of the damaga and it shows all the items that crashed through (except my ipod and phone because i checked if they were okay right away.

Sorry for the long ass post but i can really only express puzzlement. if anyone has any hunches as to what went wrong please let me know. any helps appreciated.

[surreys princess]

sometimes things just happen...not everything is for a reason...maybe the table was just tired of being a table....either way, freaky man...better you than me....

princess

[onequestion]

thats wierd. Everytime i smoke near my completely glass table, i always have these moments where i stare at it and am sure ittl just explode because its only glass.

[Breukelen advocaat]

That is weird! Maybe there were hairline cracks, or some other defects, in the glass and for some reason an item on the table was the straw that broke the camel's back. It would be expensive, but a lab could probably do an analysis of the glass and see if anything turns up - and possibly nothing will. Maybe ask a glazier if he ever heard of this happening. They'd be the most likely to know something about it.

[GonzoForever]

wow...that is freak

[birdgirl73]

Yeah, I'd have to go with BA on that assesssment. It's strange and must have been scary. But glass is an imperfect substance. I learned this from a good many years of crafting stained glass. It has weak spots and little imperceptible differences in its surface strength and stability. The glass in that table had some miniscule break in its surface tension someplace and something, even just a slight shift of one table leg, an acorn falling from a tree, or even a couple of degrees of temperature change was all it needed to set off the fracture process.

We had the same thing happen to a glass panel in a balcony door one year as an evening chill was settling in. The temperature changed a couple of degrees, perhaps the house settled a tad, and zippity-crick, the panel was in a thousand little pieces all over a bedroom floor. The black plastic garbage bags we duct-taped up to cover the hole were ever-so-lovely, too.

[slipknotpsycho]

another remote possibility is like a small meteor or something simliar falling from the sky... do you get alot of planes/choppers over head? maybe a peice of an aircraft (small peice of course) fell off... if yal weren't really paying attention i doubt you'd of seen it....

[onequestion]

I think that the roof on the house would probably stop falling objects from the sky and f it made it through, thye would prolly notice.

[slipknotpsycho]

I think that the roof on the house would probably stop falling objects from the sky and f it made it through, thye would prolly notice.


I come in my crib and grab some buds nd papers then go outside

...

[NextLineIsMine]

Im going to go with compromised durability

how much abuse had it recieved in the past?

Maybe the glass of ice did it. If you heat then chill out glass it shatters very easily

[Metaphor]

NextLine - it hadnt recived that much abuse, it was 4 or 5 years old probably but there were no (visable) cracks prior to this. It had just been used as a table. Nobody ever fell into it or anything like that.

Slip - Thats another good possibility i guess, there is alot of activity in the sky (its nyc for christsake) and i guess a small bolt or something could have fallen and broke it. the only thing is we had the umbrella open and i didnt have a chance to double check it yet but there would have to be a tear, also the house would have blocked anything falling from and angle on one side.

i knew i shouldnt have but we cleaned everything up right away and not to mention it was garbage day so that bag of glass is long gone, theres no way we could find out if there was anything out of the ordinary in the debris.

[Jizzle Blizzle420]

20 bucks says one of your high friends accidently kicked it from underneath or something and is just to scared to fess up.

[Dr HaZzMatT Esq.]

that same thing happen to me but with my lazy boy
back in "82 it was a Sunday or maybe a Monday??
I was just sitting in it one night and it just exploded!

My first thought was a sniper too! (we get alot of those here!) Theres alot of trees behind me that a sniper could possibly hide...but I was indoors (are there indoor snipers?)

I guess these are just life's unexplined mysteries that we may never know...
keep smok'n ,
~Hazz

[birdgirl73]

It didn't have to have had a visible crack or anything, Metaphor. Just some undectectable, invisible weak spot was all it took. Glass is wacky that way.

Cutting glass, like for window panes, mirrors, table panels, or stained glass is essentially a matter of controlling the fracture process in a precise way by breaking (scoring) the surface tension evenly and then helping it break along that score line. Wish you lived near me. I'd cut you a new panel for that table out of some tempered glass that'd be a little more resilient.

[Dr HaZzMatT Esq.]

Cutting glass, like for window panes, mirrors, table panels, or stained glass is essentially a matter of controlling the fracture process in a precise way by breaking (scoring) the surface tension evenly and then helping it break along that score line. Wish you lived near me. I'd cut you a new panel for that table out of some tempered glass that'd be a little more resilient.


I love it when you talk technical (like the professor from Gillians's Island) it makes me HOT!

I wish you lived by me too! I'd break all the glass in my house!
~~~~~~~~~Hazz

[jdub61]

holy shit, dude i would have been so paranoid and whacked out if that had happened to me, i would have probably thought the spirit of God had just showed up on my back lawn

[Metaphor]

thanks birdgirl. So what your saying is it was basicly random and totally unavoidable. It was just some pressure points that decided to give in??

thats really fucked up. do you think i would be able to sue the company that manufactures the table??... me nd my boys are 'emotionally scarred'

[YouAintKnow]

I think that the roof on the house would probably stop falling objects from the sky and f it made it through, thye would prolly notice.

They would probably be dead if they were grilling inside.

[slipknotpsycho]

wow... it really did shatter into a million peices..

[Mike23artist]

i broke it with my mind hahahahaha:chainsaw:

[onequestion]

20 bucks says one of your high friends accidently kicked it from underneath or something and is just to scared to fess up.

Thats definitly it man. I have no doubts.

[Metaphor]

im pretty positive nobody kicked it, there were two people one was leaning back in his seat on his cell phone and i was lookin at the other guy because he was passing me the jay.

[sttomassmoker]

sounds like an anti-weed commercial.

[bluntblaze]

...lmao

[BoilerUp]

The table sounds like it was outside, is it outside all the time?

The change of weather from hot in the day to cold in the night could have helped damage it.

Another possibility is that it was shot, but it was a falling bullet. There are people that die miles away from stray bullets, so it wouldn't be too far out of the ordinary.

[Ganj]

sounds like an anti-weed commercial.

And just like any other anti-weed commercial, I would fix my stoned eyes on the television and await the event that would make a self-conscious mind speculate on their drug usage, then bust out in laughter once I saw your guy's faces after the glass exploded. You must have been freaked. There you are enjoying your high, then suddenly a loud crash. I wouldn't be surprised if you all yourselves didn't bust out into laughter from the sheer shock of it all. Have you all replaced the table yet?

[BizzleLuvin]

woah thats crazy! i agree with BA. probably some old fractures that finally decided to give in.
or Mike23artist broke it with his mind.

[birdgirl73]

I love it when you talk technical (like the professor from Gillians's Island) it makes me HOT!

I wish you lived by me too! I'd break all the glass in my house!
~~~~~~~~~Hazz
Aww, shucks, Hazz. You made me blush with that one. We could break that glass together, then talk about surface tension while we cut some replacememts. Sizzlin' hot. . . .


thanks birdgirl. So what your saying is it was basicly random and totally unavoidable. It was just some pressure points that decided to give in??

do you think i would be able to sue the company that manufactures the table??... me nd my boys are 'emotionally scarred'
Yep, random and unavoidable, Metaphor. Not so much some pressure points that decided to give in but rather some weak ones. Now that I've seen your pictures, let me ask you this. Was all that stuff down there with the glass fragments on top of the table surface before it fractured? The bottles, plates and other miscellaneous contents? Also, I see that table has a center rod like for an umbrella, I guess. Did the glass have a hole in the middle of it that the center rod went up through? I ask because any glass with a hole in the center of it is structurally weaker than a flat panel to begin with.

Don't think you have yourselves a plaintiff's action there, Metaphor. Nice try. LOL! It'd cost you more to retain an attorney to start that action than it would to replace that table 10 times over AND get group therapy for post-traumatic glass disorder.

This has been a fun thread!

[Metaphor]

loll yeah birdgirl everything down there was ontop of the table and yea, there is a hole for an umbrella. Thanks alot for your help, and im glad i dont have any snipers in my backyard :D:D

[Jizzle Blizzle420]

sounds like an anti-weed commercial.

Haha naw if it was they would of all been so high that they would of ate the broken glass and bled to death internally. Us damn stoners and our evil herb.:rasta: