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Earlier tonight someone drove through the crosswalk I was walking in at 40 mph while giving me the finger. It feels good to read about you throwing things at those assholes.
living vicariously through your post, so many asshole drivers out there
get strapped
Drivers are a perpetual constant menace to everyone else who dares to exist outside, being a menace back to them is extremely based.
gotta walk around with a pocket full of fries so you’re never out of ammo.
I know, fries are the perfect thing to throw at people. I don't want to actually hurt anybody (for the most part), I just want to piss them off. Also, fries were what I threw in the restaurant, so I'm particularly accurate with them
Keep a pocket full of tator tots like napoleon dynamite, they seem easier to throw
Find some used spark plugs, shatter the porcelain off them with a pliers or something, and keep a pouch of the bits on hand to throw at windows. The porcelain becomes heavily polarized from use and will shatter glass with little effort.
I don't think they have to be used, it's not an electrical thing according to the ninja rocks article on NATOpedia
Tempered glass, which is used for the side windows of most vehicles, is manufactured with an extremely high surface compressive stress and high internal tensile stress. This gives it strength and durability against shocks and blunt impact. When the glass breaks (such as in a serious vehicular collision) the internal stresses present in the pane cause the entire pane to shatter into thousands of tiny pieces. This reduces the risk of laceration one might otherwise face when using 'normal' glass, and is an essential safety feature in vehicular design.
It is these physical stresses designed into tempered glass which make it vulnerable to ninja rocks. Made of shards of aluminium oxide ceramic, ninja rocks are very hard, and very sharp. When thrown at tempered glass, the ninja rocks' sharp, hard point focuses impact energy into an incredibly small area without blunting. This disrupts the glass surface compressive stress at the point of impact, subsequently releasing the internal potential energy within the stressed pane, shattering the glass.
To be effective, a ninja rock needs to be sufficiently sharp, impact the glass on that sharp point, and impact it with sufficient force. Thrown ninja rocks may often fail to shatter tempered glass if one of these conditions is not met. Ninja rocks are ineffective against windshields, as these are made of a laminated type of safety glass, and designed not to shatter.
It's not because of anything special about spark plugs, it's because car windows are made of safety glass that's weak to pinpoint damage. The hammers they make for busting out of cars in an emergency are just a little steel spike because all the magic is already in the window itself.
Spark plug ceramic is just a handy combination of light + throwable + likely to land on a sharp point + often found in the proximity of cars.
I thought it was a polarization thing, guess not.
This won't work. Shattered spark plugs break windows because they're super sharp, but they're only sharp when freshly broken. If you break it and carry around the bits all day, they'll wear down and lose their edge. This is basically how magicians make shattered glass you can walk on.
Bummer, maybe some good sized ball bearings or d-cell batteries.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
My hot take of the day; pedestrians and cyclists should be able to shoot at cars with no repercussions.
Look up Ninja Rocks 😉
Fries are small fly. Carry around bricks with you.