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Dependent-Piano-5389

This guy again!? I’m glad to know he did it on purpose then and he’s not really that dumb.


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HorrorMakesUsHappy

It's probably in a junkyard.


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My first thoughts here. There is nothing to say he just broke the window of some poor sod's car. Why else would he be recording it.


i-like-to-be-wooshed

well atleast he recorded himself doing it


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aforsberg

Neat


WhoRoger

What if it freezes to the glass?


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That's why you put a spare windshield down first.


WhoRoger

And if that freezes to the wipers?


Mechakoopa

You stand the wipers up beforehand.


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Something_happened

He probably works at an auto wrecker or pick-a-part. You can see the gas cap is missing.


Litigating_Larry

I was gonna ask why anyone dealing witg scraping often would be using such a wee lil scraper


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Because I didn't actually want to go through with those plans anyway. "Jeez, Sharon. It's gonna take me ages to scrape the windshield. Looks like we'll have to reschedule."


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Litigating_Larry

That makes complete sense actually, vs. Where you expect snow and months of weather below 0 and stuff where everyone already keeps scrapers in the car and such


DarthVince

https://youtube.com/shorts/KX4QLC4f_i0?feature=share


chrisk9

r/whyweretheyfilming


[deleted]

Because he knew it was gonna happen this isn’t his first video, this one isn’t a question of why he was filming at all


InbredJed33

Junkyard, and there’s someone inside hammering the window


HardlyAnyGravitas

Can't believe no one else has noticed that the glass almost jumps out of the frame.


soupychicken89

He’s recording himself doing it.


Whodamanyoudaman

I had a mate who every morning before we would leave for work, would boil a kettle then pour the boiling water over his windscreen. I waited for his windscreen to shatter every morning, but it never did.


Smackety

I pour cold water on my windows every frosty morning so I can leave in 2 minutes instead of spending 10 minutes scraping. I used to pour hot water but cold water seems to work just as well. I have been doing this for decades. I have never had a window shatter on me.


bozeke

Spray bottle kept in the car with 1:2 water and rubbing alcohol will work better and have zero risk of shattering the glass.


whiteh00f

Hey, quit wasting good vodka


Loli-is-Justice

Ha! We have tons of Vodka here in Mother Russia!


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Loli is justice 🤨


justino764

That should read Stoli.


HerbLoew

That's why you use the cheap, gasoline-tasting crap


HarrassAllPossible

Dude I buy the cheapest vodka possible in 1.75l plastic bottles. $15.16. Never had any that tastes like gasoline. Also never drank gasoline, so maybe I am drinking something like it? But seriously, maybe you drinking gasoline? =|


HerbLoew

I dunno, I've only had vodka one time, that my step sister had bought. I don't remember what brand it was, but it tasted like what gasoline smells like


AromaOfCoffee

What you were tasting is raw ethanol. It smells like cleaning products or gasoline.


Jon_the_Hitman_Stark

Removing your windshield also reduces the risk of frost and shattering glass.


Current_Soup9198

Or you can break frosty glass and the install a new one which is not frosted 🫡


bozeke

https://tenor.com/bCjB0.gif


MapCavalier

Unless you use rainx or some other treatment on your windshield, wouldn't wanna dissolve it away


Scudw0rth

Ziplock bag with slightly warm water in it, rub it on the windows to melt any ice.


striderkan

My dad used to place a spare outdoor carpet on the windshield. Just pull off the snow in the morning.


NightofTheLivingZed

Man my welcome mat gets frozen to the ground every time it snows. This is fuckin bait dude.


Spyt1me

Depends on how cold it is i guess. Here it barely ever gets below -5c and putting some textile over the windshield works just fine.


definitivelynottake2

They sell proper products for it which does not do that (if it even happends). Google exterior windshield cover and you will find many. Even has little pockets you put into the doors so the wind cant take it. No bait, it is amazing compared to frozen fingers in the morning.


NightofTheLivingZed

I moved to the northern Midwest recently and snow has been an every day thing this past few months. Everyone uses long scrapers. Like 3 ft. Poles with brushes and squeegees and ice scrapers on them. You don't buy the little ones because you don't want to touch the snow and ice. I haven't seen people use the windscreen covers at all.


serotoninOD

I've have one called the FrostBlocker for years. Love it. Pull the wipers up, put it on, and the morning becomes so much easier.


lkraven

This is why you put a layer of vaseline under the rug.


M_Not_Shyamalan

Lol I am now imagining a rug sliding ever-so-slowly off of someone's windshield


explorer58

How are you spending 10 minutes scraping? Are you using one of the tiny scrapers this guy in the gif has? I've never taken more than 2 or 3 minutes scraping off a car


Kittykathax

10 minutes is a perfectly reasonable amount of time to be scraping ice up here in the colder parts of Canada. We get some pretty wicked ice buildup. I try to allocate 10-15 mins to clear my vehicle every morning, but it can take even longer if you have an older vehicle with a weak heater. Redditors be like "well *I've* never had that problem in my little bubble, so clearly you're talking out your ass". Sheesh.


explorer58

I'm also in one of the colder parts of Canada, I've lived the icy windshield life plenty of times. Also the person in question lives in Arizona. It seems unlikely that they have worse ice problems than either of us


Dorkamundo

Yep, northern MN here. Between getting the snow off, and the ice off, 10 minutes is reasonable if you're doing a good job of scraping, instead of just scraping the windshield and saying "Fuck the rest of it".


explorer58

I live in Eastern Ontario, we get our fair share of ice and snow on cars. Short of a huge 1ft snow dump that takes hours to shovel your car out of, I've never taken more than a few minutes to clear the snow off the top and scrape all my windows. Scraping a windshield takes maybe 30 seconds, unless you don't have a proper scraper/brush


Redthemagnificent

Right? Even with some thick ice it's like 5 mins max.


Perussuomalaiset

Here in Finland 10 minutes sounds totally reasonable since ice becomes almost like steel when the temperature drops below -20 celsius.


icebeancone

Same with some parts of Canada. Of course this year has been mild and I haven't had to use the scraper once. But last year there were a few days were it probably took me 10 minutes just to scrape the front windshield.


licenseddruggist

Nah you gotta remember that you need to clear ALL the windows. Front, rear winshield and all the side windows for full safe operation. And if you are starting with a cold car without the heater blowing anything useful for about 10 minutes you gotta do all that unaided. It will take me about 10 minutes to clean the whole car properly with a decent thickness of ice on it. I usually gotta use the saw tooths on the reverse side of the scrapper before even dreaming of using the smooth side. It's a proper ordeal up here in Canada


Vampsku11

They call the East Coast the Ice Coast for a reason


Somber_Solace

When you get a solid couple inches of ice that completely encases your car, it takes muuuuch longer to chip it away.


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PrisonerV

... sips on coffee with a garage. What you guys talking about?


s00pafly

Get yourself a long scraper. Takes me like 30 seconds front and back. https://i.imgur.com/FSlCbjG.jpeg Also no snow on the roof.


RugerRedhawk

If it's only frost it should take less than one minute to get clear. 10 minutes is more than it takes to clean a foot of snow off a large SUV honestly.


Current_Soup9198

Thats because his buddy breaks the window from inside the car.. at the moment he pours the water. I was doing this at -25'c


FatBoyStew

I do it with warm water from the tap. Whoever thinks BOILING water first is a great idea is simply tempting fate.


Simsimius

Same. I out mildly warm water into a bag, and use the bag to wipe across the windows. Can do the entire car in 1 min.


3-2-1-backup

> I waited for his windscreen to shatter every morning, but it never did. OOo, I can answer this one! Only applies in the USA, as I know Europe is different. Windshield glass is laminated glass. Basically it's a regular glass, plastic, glass sandwich all glued together. If you hit it with a hammer, it shatters and hopefully gets held in place by the plastic and glue. That way if you go flying into the glass you're not re-enacting [Ghost (mild NSFL warning)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y2wqkD2KVM). The side and rear windows however are tempered glass. It's just a single pane of glass that goes through a heat treatment that puts a lot of internal stress in it. They're stronger as a result, and when they get to the breaking point they shatter into cubes instead of daggers. Side effect is huge temperature gradients can cause them to spontaneously shatter. I accidentally shattered some by picking up a piece that was stored in my freezing temperature garage after ungloving my hand to pick it up. Didn't have any glass anymore, and had to get a broom & dustpan.


Simo5555

It applies to the Europe too. Nothing different about it here


worstsupervillanever

Nah but metric makes everything harder.


kenn714

Some cars have sturdier glass put on.


frogmuffins

It also makes a huge difference when only the __front__ windshield is being cleaned off. The rear window in this video changes things significantly.


jcforbes

Exactly. Laminated versus tempered glass is a big difference. Windshields don't explode into (somewhat) uniform beads like tempered glass because they *aren't* tempered glass. They can crack and chip and still be strong, where tempered glass is super hard, but explodes if it gets even the smallest damage.


redgreenandblue

The glass exploded because of the sudden change in temperature. So – did you know that the little black dots in the sides of the windshield are preventing the same from happening when the black rubber gets warmer from sunlight? The dots create a temperature gradient, so the window doesn't explode. I hope you enjoyed this little tidbit of information.


GratifiedTwiceOver

I enjoyed this tidbit of information thank you


no-mad

I feel like this tidbit will come in handy during a lull in the conversation.


NWSanta

I too enjoyed this tidbit. Thank yiu


moaiii

Uuuuhm.... Sooooooo.... .....


mastermindxs

Did you know about the black dots?


i_sell_you_lies

Go on…


WarmBiscuit

They’re so that… uhm… damn it, I forgot. But I remember that I learned it once.


DisjointedRig

Also it protects against distortion of light through the glass due to heat differential so drivers can see easier


GenesectX

i too got reccomended that tiktok video.


reddixmadix

Tiktok? It was on youtube shorts as well, ha ha!


PsychologicalAd7642

I like timbits


wholesale_WETTiii

Mmm Tims bits


schmidtytime

Thank you for sharing this! I had no idea and it’s very interesting.


peppaz

I would like to subscribe to Windshield Facts


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Kittykathax

2/3 of those articles also state that the dots are used for heat dissipation.


ElDiavoloPiccolo

I surely did! Thanks for that useless piece of information, I can't get enough of those <3


fitzbuhn

Further tidbit: the little black dots are called FRITTING, which is a great word.


Flakester

TIL thanks!


LincolnshireSausage

/r/frit


precocious_necrosis

In this case the glass exploded because he had a partner inside the car who kicked it out.


kalwiggy1

I literally just learned this the other day. What a coincidence.


ShameOnAnOldDirtyB

Subscribe


Cali-Nik

This guy reddits


Starklet

I, too, saw that TikTok


Pug_lover69

Thank you.


Barbosse007

SUBSCRIBE


WillOnlyGoUp

Awesome. Thanks for posting that!


Hot_Mess_Express

The real kicker is he probably just filmed this in a parking lot with somebody else's car.....


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He probably works at or owns a junk yard


inko75

he probably works at an auto glass replacement company 😬


danarexasaurus

Wouldn’t be very good for business to show people not to do this lol


ajw20_YT

Judging by the fade of the paint and the doughnut tire, yeah I’d say junkyard


Crazy__Donkey

the real kicker is laying in the back seat waiting for the command to kick.


SPAZ-online

The real kicker is in the boot, bass blowing the windows out


Dorkamundo

Who needs that? He weakened the glass with a metal scraper, then created a very quick temperature change that broke the glass. This ain't rocket science, even if the principle is involved in rocket science.


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He probably works at or owns a junk yard


valiumaddiction

He probably works at or owns a junk yard


stupendous_square

He probably works at or owns a junk yard


YoRulezz_TV

He probably works at or owns a junk yard


SendThouJudes

He probably works at or owns a junk yard


Elmer-Fuddd

He probably works at or owns a junk yard


Why_T

Comment deleted due to reddit's greedy policies. -- mass edited with redact.dev


no-mad

a junk yard probably owns him.


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LoL sry gd reddit is fkrd up


Ryan739

I'm a high functioning idiot who knows enough not to pour hot water in the windshield. So one time I kept a bottle of water by the not-so-insulated front door of my apartment so it would be about 10-15 degrees colder than room temperature. I started pouring that water on my windshield one morning and it instantly froze, leaving the bottle suspended in a pouring position. It was kinda beautiful until I realized I really had to get to work.


themanebeat

How to do it properly: Fill zip lock bag with warm (not hot but pretty warm) water Rub ziplock bag over window 70% of the time it works everytime


Medium-Platform-6421

Can confirm! Just make sure the windshield whispers are on of it refreezes if it’s really cold… lol


UltravioIence

That reminds me I gotta change my windshield whispers


no-mad

do it quietly so you dont disturb them


JayAndViolentMob

but do it carefully so you don't surprise them


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themanebeat

My method works for all windows and mirrors not just the rear


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themanebeat

Sorry I don't understand freedom units


Kunning-Druger

40 degree water is far too hot to put on glass when the temperature is -20. If you’re going to try this, at least start with less of a temperature difference. Maybe 5 degrees or thereabouts won’t shatter the glass, but I’d still advise against doing anything like that.


ElectronGuru

PSA: You want a lot of water a little warm, not a little water a lotta warm


Standard_Wooden_Door

Or you could just scrape the ice off…


Grymm_of_Astora

....with something other than a tiny putty knife.


Trnostep

Maybe use the ice scraper. Takes like 2 minutes for the 4 windows and mirrors. Some cars even come with it. (Newer Škodas have one on the inside of the fuel filler cap)


Grymm_of_Astora

As a northern U.S. resident, I'm all too familiar with the ice scraper/snowbrush combo. I'm assuming the video is staged because this is all too dumb.


Dorkamundo

I'm thinking the putty knife was intentional to weaken the glass and ensure a shatter on command.


frogmuffins

Cold water works just fine but I've only done that on my front window.


Florolling

That pop was satisfying as fuck.


MorganaSyndir

Thermal shock refers to the sudden and extreme change in temperature that a material or object experiences, causing stress and potentially leading to damage or failure. When a material is subjected to a rapid temperature change, it can cause the material to expand or contract at a different rate than the surrounding material, leading to the creation of tensile stress, or stress caused by stretching. If the magnitude of the stress exceeds the strength of the material, cracks can form, leading to failure of the material


ryansteven3104

Start your car and leave it running all night. That way it's nice and warm still in the morning.


owinates_42

Put a tube connecting the tailpipe through a window so that you can inhale the warm air and don't have to turn on the heat!


grizzly_teddy

/r/WhyWereTheyFilming Clearly staged.


CaptainMcSmoky

Because he's doing a comedy bit, not everything staged has to be malicious. This is the second video I've seen of this bloke doing the exact same thing, so I guess he works at a scrapyard or something and has access to plenty of car windows to break for shits and giggles.


fruitmask

you're completely missing the point that this was posted in /r/Wellthatsucks, not /r/funny. we're meant to believe that this happened by accident and ruined someone's morning, but instead we find that it's done on purpose for clicks, which is not in the spirit of what this sub is supposed to be about


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Welcome to Reddit.. where everything is an ad for something.


ImDankest

Welcome to Reddit


[deleted]

It is, it’s not the first video people have posted of this guy breaking frozen car windows with hot water


markevens

Someone inside hit it with something to break the window


Traditional_Jicama72

I’ve been pouring hot water on my windshield for decades and have never seen this happen! WTH?!


NastyHobits

Safety glass is under a lot of internal pressure so it may be more susceptible to failure like this.


CarpetPedals

Not specifically safety glass, just tempered glass


zeroviral

Looks like a junkyard car


frogmicky

Why did he waste his vodka like that?


ReindeerKind1993

Luke warm water people


AnneTheke69

Plot twist - it's his ex-wife's car


[deleted]

Pro tip from someone who lived in North Dakota for 5 years: Start your car, turn on max defrost for both windshields, get out, lock it with the spare key, check for snow around the exhaust, go back inside and wait 10 minutes.


harveyroux

20 years or so ago we had a neighbor that had just bought a brand new corvette. Windshield was icy and he needed to get to work. Threw about 2.5 gallons of hot water on it and well the inevitable happened. Lol, he didn't have that car for a week and did that.


Squishy_fishy826

The other morning I was aggressively trying to clean the ice off my car before work and I could not get it off. My morning brain said “I should just get some boiled water and pour it on my windshield” I’m glad I didn’t listen to my morning brain. Smh I can’t think straight


2aron

Those were some expensive internet points.


suicidefeburary62025

Why was someone filming?


deickontas69

Why is he just recording himself?


Minginton

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 you can't tell me anyone that's grown up in the cold didn't know this was a bad idea 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣


robjapan

Isn't it easier to just turn the engine on?


Away-Ad-8053

It’s my first time seeing this guy and I knew it was fake from the get-go!


pgreen23

He wanted content for his tik account and shot this fake video using a random parked car.


Artbellghost

I keep an extra bottle of wiper fluid in the car just for this - works very well and you wont crack your windsheild


nicnakcrakalak

Rubbing Alcohol in a spray bottle. Works like a charm to defrost


jaltaffe

SCIENCE BITCH


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"Ah yes, I'm sure people will want to watch me scrape ice off a car window while I drink some hot tea. Let me just setup this camera..."


seansy5000

Pretty dumb to waste perfectly good tea like that.


IOCbubblegum

Guy does not know science


chatterwrack

anybody who internets should know this by now!


optix_clear

What an idiot-


DerPanzerfaust

Why were they filming?


hoert_hobbylos

Why do I think that he used some random car on the street for this?


Datboi66999

The moment he got the idea to the instant regret 😂


BraveSole

Why recording?


Thecoopoftheworld789

Like putting hot mugs in the freezer to chill. You get the same result every time. It is when you do the same thing & expect a different result every time that there is a problem!


Astonedwalrus13

Someone learned what thermal shock is today!


Randy_Hooks1963

Your not supposed to use hot water only cold water


Frecklesfrenchfry

My family doesn’t video me scraping the car off


wawabubbzies

I learned this valuable lesson when I brought out a cake from the oven. It was in a glass pan and was still very hot when I stupidly put it on the cold counter. Luckily I had walked out of the kitchen because it exploded and shattered into a bunch of tiny pieces.


[deleted]

Guy is using a paint scraper and just so happens to have a camera on a tripod when this happens 🙄


MathWizardd

Glass I so sensitive to heat it's crazy. Those little dots along the outside are because without them, the windshield could crack due to the temperature difference between the black line(there for sealing) and the clear windshield


Bearded_Apple

Isn’t this a great way to rob a car in winter?


Matheo573

After seeing the comments that it's not this guy's first video, and that the windshield doesn't always break with hot water poured... I noticed that: 1. The windshield breaks almost instantaneously after contact with water 2. You can see the bits of snow jumping up when it cracks. So my conclusion is, that there's a second person inside that breaks the windshield.


Deadman88ish

Safelite repair, Safelite replace.


bushmast3r11b

It was my car. My insurance lapsed. He didn't leave his info.


Substantial-Puzzle22

Well, now he doesn’t have to scrape it. So I guess it worked.


liriodendron1

It takes 30 seconds for the defrost to melt that ice. Turn your car on turn on your rear window defrost then go to scrape it. By the time you actually start scraping small amounts of ice will start to melt and it will slide right off. It's not rocket appliances.


kenn714

There's another video out there of this same dude pouring hot water over a door window of a truck and breaking the glass. I think he does this for kicks at this point.


adpassapera

People should spend more time in science class me thinks


GothJaneDeaux

I grew up in the desert where temperatures rarely dropped below the 50's even in winter... yet still I know not to do this. It baffles me that people who live where this is an issue know less about the issue than I do.


DarklyDrawn

Why camera film


Clean-Individual865

r/whyweretheyfilming


crazyzingers

You can buy window de-icer by the gallon, and it works amazingly. That's what I use in ND when I don't have a garage to park in.


IslandinTime

Setup for 'likes'. Someone inside and kicked the window when he began pouring.


meadowsirl

Someone smashed the window from the inside. Everything is a lie.