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[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

A crowbar to the side is what eventually broke it open.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

And no one went up to it with an angle grinder? Pretty sure you can cut it with a diamond blade.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (2 children)

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.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

If my memory is correct there's a guard just out of frame that was preventing that stuff.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Go on facebook marketplace, buy cheapest car near me that runs rhe have "car accident" in the wee hours.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Your comment is the fifth from the top in my view. And I had already decided to crash a car without airbags into the sign. Why wait for the wee hours? Just do it®

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Legit? Theres been several incidences worldwide of people driving cars into crowds of people and I dont want to get accused of domestic terrorism or have to beat a bunch of public endangerment charges in court.

I mean its 3 MILLION DOLLARS! but its also only 3 million dollars. If I have to replace the bus stop, pay a bunch of lawyer fees, have my licence revoked for a year or two, possibly have charges on my record that would make it hard to get a job... Its "life just got a lot easier" money but not quite "Set for life"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Theres been several incidences worldwide of people driving cars into crowds of people and I dont want to get accused of domestic terrorism or have to beat a bunch of public endangerment charges in court.

OK, that's true, I hadn't considered that part of it. But as I said it was a quite fast idea.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago (2 children)

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 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That's the standard practice in most countries- if you take the whole unit you can break into it later!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

Unless your partner in crime is a SKANK!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago

we had a rash of people doing that to ATMs in the US, too.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

If I was driving the bus I would just brake a little too late when arriving at that stop.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Find a spark plug, crumble, embed in shoe sole by stepping on it, jumpkick glass, become legend.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 days ago (2 children)

aren't there any methods, like some big hammer to smack it after you break that layer. you have all the time in the world, i wonder if it pays out to travel there smack the glass and take 3mil$

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Hammer drills are basically "small" jack hammers that can also operate as a drill. Put it in hammer mode and repeated chisel at it. it'll take some time, but eventually the glass will be broken and you can then deal with the polymer layers by yanking.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The problem is that glass absorbs energy to break, polymer deforms to absorb energy. So you have something absorbing energy in two different ways that robs kinetic energy very well.

Even just a normal household double pane window with one thin layer of polymer on both panes will take a long time to bust through with a hammer if the outer polymer is bonded to the frame appropriately. If you put paper tightly between both panes top to bottom, you would be in for a task because the paper reenforces against the deflection the hammer imparts.

You aren't allowed to use tools with the money case, but ignoring that, you could shoot it with a .50 cal AP round towards the top and almost certainly make it through and then you just hammer and crowbar down to get the cash by peeling away the glass.

The other way you could attack it is to just drive a car at the far side from the support and hopefully peel the glass away from the frame enough to get in.

Even taking a hammer to it would be a laborious task to make any meaningful progress in a reasonable amount of time. A pickaxe would be useful, a framing hammer face less so.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

an angle grinder would be a much better choice than hammers

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

well, better as in more effective.

Just don't forget to engage the safety squints.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

Some of those Minnesota studded shoes would help. Can’t go slipping on the ice, can we, best to be prepared.

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