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- From: wcl@pei.com (Wesley Lee,PEI,166,(408)274-7468)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos
- Subject: Re: Exploding rear windshield
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.202546.6229@pei.com>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 20:25:46 GMT
- References: <1992Nov5.052211.10326@cbnewsm.cb.att.com>
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- In article 10326@cbnewsm.cb.att.com, nsw@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (Neil Weinstock) writes:
- > In article <1992Nov4.160544.5750@cbnewsh.cb.att.com> brazeal@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (susan.k.brazeal) writes:
- > >As I was driving home last night, I heard a loud pop, glimpsed a flash of
- > >light in the rear view mirror and saw that the rear windshield had filled
- > >with cracks, no more than a quarter inch apart. As soon as I drove over
- > >a bump large enough to bounce the car a little, the windshield began falling
- > >out in pieces.
- > [ ... ]
- > >Anyone ever heard of anything like this happening before?
- >
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- I've never heard of such before, but perhaps the shattered window was from some
- kid shooting a BB or pellet gun at your car. Kids do these things. A friend of
- mine had his car window shot out with a BB and it was completely shattered.
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- You said you heard a loud pop. BB?
-
- -WCL
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