Spontainious Windshield Shatter?..

[69charger2002]

man that is freaky!! the only story i had was once when i first got into chargers.. had to be 97 or so. i had carefully removed a back glass from a parts car. i'm literally carrying it in my 2 hands.. and i got about 30 feet away fromthe car and it shattered into thousands of pieces right ther ein my hands. of course no gloves on! i didn't get a single scratch, not one shred of glass was left in my hand(no i didn't drop it lol). it was the weirdest thing ever. i was pickingg up glass for an hour afterwards.. maybe the sun hit it funny? i am sure i didn't bump anything... it was odd

[Drache]

I had a window shatter on me once... literally.
I was driving down the road during a thunderstorm when I saw the car in front me get hit by lightning... right dead center on the top of the cab! Holy crap... I don't think the guy even new it... he just kept driving like nothing had happened. I few moments later I hear what sounds like a rifle going off in my backseat, and glass is suddenly flying everywhere like it was fired out of a cannon. I hit the brakes and pull over to the side of the road. The inside of the car is covered in broken glass and the rear window is gone. I got out of the car and walked around the back to check the damage. The window is gone obviously, but the trim molding is also gone... well sort of... it's no longer around the window, it's in pieces and stuck to various parts of the car... quarter panel, roof, trunk, etc. I tried to pick up the pieces but they were stuck to the car... I couldn't pull them off, I couldn't pry them off, they were stuck there for good. They looked OK, but apparently they had been welded to the body by what must have been a lightning strike to the rear of the car. Well I'm standing out there in the pouring rain with no rear window, so I figured, the heck with the trim, I'll try to get it off later when I get home. I walked back to the front and open the drivers side door to get in, and then I hear what sounds like metal hitting the pavement behind me... I turned and looked, and there was all the trim laying on the ground... it just fell off.... Lightning does some weird stuff.

sounds like the lightning had magnetized the trim temporarily....

[Musicman]

man that is freaky!! the only story i had was once when i first got into chargers.. had to be 97 or so. i had carefully removed a back glass from a parts car. i'm literally carrying it in my 2 hands.. and i got about 30 feet away fromthe car and it shattered into thousands of pieces right ther ein my hands. of course no gloves on! i didn't get a single scratch, not one shred of glass was left in my hand(no i didn't drop it lol). it was the weirdest thing ever. i was pickingg up glass for an hour afterwards.. maybe the sun hit it funny? i am sure i didn't bump anything... it was odd

Old glass collapsed under it's own weight.

[Musicman]

sounds like the lightning had magnetized the trim temporarily....

Yup, thats what happened... the effects of the strike were still lingering in the metal of the body, but when I opened the door I probably shorted the field to ground. 

[TUFCAT]

Oh yeah....17th century cello music?  WTF dude?

I have to agree.   For God's SAKE!!  17th century cello music??  Did you install a rare mopar phonograph in that bitch? 

[FLG]

I think were all missing the obvious...brock built a stroker for that car, made it look completely stock and the torque simply cracked the glass   

[Ghoste]

Aha, so that's what he's been doing since his retirement.

[TUFCAT]

Aha, so that's what he's been doing since his retirement.

that, .....and listening to cello music 

[bakerhillpins]

man that is freaky!! the only story i had was once when i first got into chargers.. had to be 97 or so. i had carefully removed a back glass from a parts car. i'm literally carrying it in my 2 hands.. and i got about 30 feet away fromthe car and it shattered into thousands of pieces right ther ein my hands. of course no gloves on! i didn't get a single scratch, not one shred of glass was left in my hand(no i didn't drop it lol). it was the weirdest thing ever. i was pickingg up glass for an hour afterwards.. maybe the sun hit it funny? i am sure i didn't bump anything... it was odd

Tempered glass. Besides the fact that the tempering makes the faces of the glass much more impact resistant its shatters into lots of tiny pieces, which is actually MUCH safer than plate glass. Its used for lots of safety stuff. Ive had a sheet from one of my pinball machines blow up while I was holding it right in front of my face. It explodes within its plane, makes a bone numbing pop and shoots glass for easily 20' in both directions. Needless to say I changed my shorts. Tempered glass is most susceptible to detonation when it is impacted on its edges, and it doesn't take much to cause it to go. Never set tempered glass on concrete, they are arch enemies and it will almost pop.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempered_glass
"Tempered glass is strong, has enhanced thermal resistance, and breaks into small cuboid fragments rather than irregular shards of glass and therefore is less likely to cause injury."

Bryan