"I'm Jamie Hyneman, and you're watching "Mythbusters."" "coming up..." "Can you get stuck to an airline toilet?" "Exposed butt cheeks." "There we go." "building a biscuit bazooka." "ho-ho, no!" "wow!" "that just went everywhere." "The leaping lawyer..." "fact or fantasy?" "You want more?" "here on "Mythbusters"" "we're not just going to retell the legends." "we're gonna put 'em to the test." "we're prepared to put our bodies on the line." "why should you trust these guys?" "well, Jamie and Adam have over 30 years in model building, animatronics, and toy prototyping." "they can build just about anything and probably have." "This is M5, my special-effects shop." "come on in and have a look around." "if we can't find what we need here there's always Adam's junk collection." "my cigarette dispenser." "ow!" "and they'll need every trick in the book." "So, where do we begin?" "What do we got?" "This story involves a large woman, an obese woman." "flying on an S.A.S. flight um.. from Europe and as she was going along, she had to use the restroom." "she flushed it while she was still sitting on the toilet." "and it suctioned her down a little bit." "and she was stuck." "and they had to land the plane with her on the toilet." "where the air-flight crews had to come and assist her to get off." "what exactly are we gonna need to test this?" "we have to create a large female posterior.." "posterior... is that how we... posterior, yes." "did you go to art school, Jamie?" "[chuckles]" "I build real stuff." "I don't know how to draw it." "I get the I.." "you know what's what here, huh?" "I do. it could also be like a big leg of lamb cooking over a barbecue, though, with a gas feed." "that sounds kind of good." "we got to rig a means of measuring how much pull-down there is." "to me, that means a big fish scale." " mm-hmm." " we'll use a forklift." "we'll hoist this big ass over the toilet." "hanging off the fish scale." "we lower it on there, and then we turn the pump on." "and then we raise the forklift and see how much suck the thing has before it lets go, via the fish scale and we're gonna have to custom... we're gonna have to invent one because that's a pretty big fish." "this woman was, like..." "I guess could have been a 300-rounder." "in the aircraft market, we have approximately 13,000 vacuum toilets in operation on a daily basis." "the toilet story broken in early 2001." "we were quite surprised how much press it did get." "We're at Interface Aviation in Hollister, California oh, my god!" "Interface Aviation is a aircraft recycling company that acquires aircraft parts and they end up here." "I like this. this must be the stairway from a... yeah." "they've got 3 1/2 acres of used aircraft interiors." "all the panelling, the bathrooms, all the food preparation good lord!" " and the toilets." " and the toilets they've got every kind of toilet that's ever been made for any kind of aircraft, or so it would seem." "do you remember what airline you heard it happened on?" "no. no." "you guys... um, I know my toilets, but I don't know my legends." "okay." "fair enough." "interface carries two completely different human waste disposal units." " here's the old style." " look at that." "all right." "that's filled up with blue water." "you can use your own imagination what that water's made of after a while." "the average pressure here is exactly zero." "right." "because you're just recycling out of the common tank." "the pressure should be zero, but if something..." "say, a hairbrush... gets caught in the outlet valves while the aircraft is at altitude... now we're talking." "okay, do you see where I'm going here?" " yeah." " mm-hmm. mm-hmm." "she could generate a differential in pressure the greater pressure inside would actually be trying to push her through the hole." "has one problem... that theory of toilet terror has one problem... it could only happen at altitude." "according to the legend and the information we have, they said that the woman actually stayed on the toilet until they were on the ground." "well, that would rule out the pressure differential theory," " wouldn't it?" " exactly, exactly that leaves this vacuum unit." "it has pressure at altitude and on the ground." "the vacuum toilet operates at two different pressures." "on the ground, it operates at approximately three PSI negative pressure." "and at altitude, we operate at eight psi negative pressure." "that pressure is produced b y the differential between the inside cabin air and the outside of the aircraft." "this is the one, but at 9 grand, it doesn't come cheap" "one of the biggest problems that I see is that we've got to mimic a woman's butt really well." "it has to be nice and fleshy and soft, so we've got to decide on what kind of... it's gonna be a rubber of some sort." "I thought of using this rubber" "That's used in a lot of sex toys, because it's very fleshy..." "it's called hot-melt vinyl." "I'd like to see a sample of the hot-melt vinyl you have." "is this hod melt?" "yeah, that's the one that's really sticky." "that's the one that i like." "this is the one that i want." "we are casting up a really large bottom, and we're going to stick it to an airline toilet seat that we have, so this is actually perfect." "this is definitely the stuff." "[smack] yeah." "that sounds right." "i might want to buy as much as 10 gallons." "so that comes in flesh or clear." "flesh, of course." "you'd like to try the butt head?" "there you are, sir." "do i have to pull out the, uh... and now the transformation is complete." "i come from the planet butt head." "so, how did you have this done?" "That's actually Kari's butt." "No." "Really?" "except that we let her modify herself." "okay, I'm gonna take a shot." "Try to hold as still as possible from now on." "we scanned her butt." "and that's probably the best shot that you'll ever see of your own butt." "[laughs] oh, yeah, right." "and then we took it and used the free-form tool to enlarge it and put a lot of cottage-cheese thighs in there, the whole thing." "it really looks great." "it's a really, really nice... it really looks great?" "you like that?" "I'm looking forward to spanking it." "a 300-pound butt some significant reinforcing." "there's a science to making butts." "think of all the twinkies that go into the actual" "what most people spend a lifetime avoiding." "this is what I had in mind." "if we have our forklift here, and we hook a line onto it." "we go down to a pivot point, and we have a bar that is on the pivot point." "[clattering]" "and the bar is longer on this side than the other we put barbell weights over here." "we have another pivot point here that goes down to the butt." "and there is our strain gauge." "we've made an agreement not to damage this toilet, so we want to mount it in a way that it doesn't... yeah, it's got mount points..." "good, strong ones." "we might want to also..." "I don 't know... come up on the sides, or somehow do some other stuff to it to make sure that it doesn't strain hurt" "I mean, this is definitely welded stainless that's why these things cost so much, is that it's all done to high specifications" "I mean, look at the welds on these things." "it's a perfect little... oh, my god, that's beautiful." "when we've finished admiring it, we better get on with finding something to make it suck." "I've got one of those things that I believe pushes pneumatics around in the stores when you want to get change in a big department store... oh, you got one op those?" "the vacuum... oh, that's cool." "our pump generates just three psi... that's three pounds per square inch of exposed butt." "what is this?" "this is about 13 inches by 15 inches, so... 150 times... what did we say?" "three psi." "three psi. 450." " that's 450 pounds." " pounds of pull." "so if we had a perfect seal on this with a rubber gasket it would take 450 pounds to remove it just from a three psi." "and you could see how a woman wouldn't be able to get off... absolutely, yeah." "she'd have one big Hickey big butt Hickey that's gonna be hard to explain." "things are coming together at last." "that's ugly" "I think it actually came out pretty nice." "yeah, I'm not displeased." "before the experiment can begin, we have to balance the butt." "Jamie's using a four-to-one ratio... 300 pounds of butt balanced against 75 on the pivot arm." "okay, guys, we got some serious weight going on here, so never stand under anything at all." "keep your eye on what's going on." "we don't know how much weight it's gonna take before it rips." "so we're gonna turn on the pump." "we're gonna lower the butt into place." "we'll see if we get any pressure on this." " uh-huh." " we'll let it take weight, and then we'll slowly start to raise and see how much poundage it takes to remove Bertha from the toilet." "sounds like a plan." "contact." "if the butt creates a seal, we should see a jump in vacuum pressure." "okay, should I bring it up?" "around three psi." "we're still measuring around three psi." "the toilet seat is preventing us from making a seal" "I think it's much more plausible that she sat down without putting that seat down." "okay, that's easy to test." "that's better." "that's a seal, but it's not taking that much pressure." "we'll, uh, pull the plug and see if we can rethink this." "well, we're getting a significant amount of suction out of the toilet, and the needle was bouncing more without the toilet seat on." "and checking all the way around, we had a reasonable seal." "but that air gap between the shroud and the bowl just prevented any real suction from occurring." "this myth's starting to look decidedly shaky." "these two lugs under the shroud have been preventing an air lock from forming." "I believe, myself, that the toilets are designed to not seal right." "Adam can sniff a conspiracy." "do you think they put that in after the myth," " like, as a response?" " no, no." "personally, I think we might want to try it without the shroud just to see if there's actually enough suction if there was a seal." "okay, contact." "down we come." "all right, bring it on down." "however unlikely, we want to cover the possibility we want to cover the possibility that the victim's butt was so large it reached down and made contact with the bowl." "[laughing]" "that's as good a seal as we get." "okay, Kari, lower the weight." "time to measure the suction." "all right, here we go." "go!" "keep going, all the way up." "there was a... this whole butt cheek right here... this whole butt cheek was distended about another three inches down." "the whole butt was deformed." "she's got a hell of a Hickey we got a really good seal on the butt crack in that last one." "there was a little bit of... it didn't want to give at first when you lifted, but it didn't take very much I mean... yeah, I saw what the... the toilet was generating 400 pounds of suction," "but the scale shows it would take a fraction of that to break the seal." "I'd say a woman this large..." "I man, she'd be able to pull a cheek or move herself around a little bit and release the gap." "I mean, we're talking... if someone really couldn't do that, we're talking someone maybe even twice this large." "and then I'm not even sure they could fit in an airplane toilet." "yeah, I would agree." "what's more, a properly functioning toilet creates suction for just two seconds." "if something were to go inside the bowl and get stuck inside of there, the pressure is probably about twice as much as a normal shop VAC as a normal shop VAC at your home." "as you can see, there's no damage to a person's hand if they do put it inside the bowl." "and really all you do is get wet." "myth busted, and we're prepared to stake, uh, Adam's butt on it." "are you ready to try it, you know, the real deal?" " sure." " alright." "now, what if you, like..." "if you're hurt?" "like, what if this starts to feel uncomfortable..." "I'll take it gradually." "if I feel things moving around that shouldn't be moving," "I'll disconnect." "'cause I can't hear you when I turn this on... you'll hear high-pitched squealing." "[laughs]" "all right, contact." "all right." "expose butt cheeks. here we go." "[machinery whirs] whoa!" "[farting sounds] whoa!" "[laughs] all right!" "all right, that's significant." "I.. [laughs] oh, my gosh." "oh, wow, that was really significant." "that was... that was... all right." "that was impressively significant amount of [bleep] suction." "the whole thing was vibrating with the pressure." "we got up to five psi." "yeah, it was..." "that was significant." "um..." "I mean, I had my... [laughs]" "I'm trying to talk scientifically." "I was able to use my arms, but if I didn't have arms," "I would not probably have been able to free myself." "I'm not sure what was proved here, but at least it's good television." "another one bites the dust." "good work." "this next legend involves... it's called the biscuit bullet, and it's actually pretty funny." "the way I heard it... the sister of a friend of a friend went to the supermarket and it was on a very hot day, and she hears this loud explosion behind her." "and when she heard the pop and felt this sticky mass and felt this sticky mass in the back of her head..." "she thought she'd been shot." "and so she better just kind of hold still and try and hold her brains from falling out of her head, until the paramedics get there." "and when the paramedics pry the woman's fingers off the back of her head, they find that she's hanging of raw biscuit dough." "so, what do you think we're gonna need for this experiment?" "well, we're gonna need some biscuit dough of a bunch of different... a bunch of these canisters of different sizes or different types and brands." "so we've got to get a car." "we can use my oar to do this." "I would think that we'd want to duplicate the car's interior temperature by, say, pointing heaters into the windows." "can we build a fire under your car?" "do you mind?" "yeah, absolutely." "that's no problem at all." "we would want to get the temperature stable in the car, and then move the biscuits right in and start the timer and see how long it takes them to go off." "step one in our recipe..." "getting the dough." "I'm guessing that the different mixes, like, you've got your flaky biscuits, and you got your superduper buttermilk whatevers you know, there's gonna be some differences in those things." "it may be that there's in one as opposed to another a certain amount of baking soda in one as opposed to another that would make it more prone to building that high pressure." "the tins are meant to be refrigerated, so we'll keep 'em in a cooler until the experiment begins" "I had an idea that it's not only the car's temperature, but potentially the freshness of the biscuits that might've contributed to their exploding um, to that end, we've had this one out for 10 days." "and we'll put that in to see if it explodes faster step two..." "mounting the tins in the car." "I was thinking, just in terms of being able to get a reasonable spread, maybe a rack of six?" "maybe for fun, we should make a thing like a holster, like, shotgun shells, like you're in a... like you're in a... nobody moves, nobody gets hurt!" "right, wearing it under your vest for going through airport security" "step three... determining the right baking temperature." "so, it's a rare sunny day in San Francisco the skies look really clear, and it's 9:00 on the nose." "we're gonna place a thermometer in my car." "We're gonna check back in a couple of hours and see where we can get the temperature to." "it's no coincidence that the biscuit bullet story first started making the rounds in the summer of '95, one of the hottest summers on record." "so it's about 3:00." "the car's been sitting out here all day with the thermometer in it." "the temperature's hovering right around 140 degrees." "to ensure a consistent baking temperature, we're gonna bring the car inside and heat it artificially." "so, Adam, let's load this thing." "okay." "I'm hoping we see a pretty significant change in the heat kind of fast." "well, it ought to." "these are radiant heaters, so, you know, it's... this is like the pure form of what the sun gives as far as just what actually heats it up." "we're up to 105.8." "it's looking good." "maybe another 15 or 20 minutes." "it's gonna be hot in there." "I don't know if you want to sit in the car, you know, wait for the biscuit dough, or if I sit in the car, maybe we take turns." "all right." "I think prom about a foot away, it's totally safe for us to be able to be the subjects in the car." "I wouldn't load my shorts full of these things in a hot car." "that's a scary thought." "it's starting to smell really strong of, like, almost burning plastic in there, so I don't think either of us should sit in there." "I just made up a rack we'll just put the head in." "all right?" "you mean, you don't want to get hot, is what you're saying?" "you can go climb in there, but it's... you could suffocate." "120 degrees." "time to get baking." "are you ready?" " yeah." " okay." "leading brand, flaky." "leading brand, buttermilk." "competitor, flaky." "competitor, buttermilk." "unrefrigerated." "small tin." "all right." "and the clock is ticking." "I'll say within eight minutes." "two hours, maybe three." " really?" " yeah." "so... to eight minutes than two hours?" "so we're saying 8 minutes or 120 minutes." "all right, I'll put a dollar down on that." " put it on the car." " all right." "now we wait?" "do we see any physical change in them?" "no, I don't see any change in them." "your dashboard's starting to melt, though." "I've been working in this area for about 30 years" "I've never heard of this type of thing happening but as you think about it, you've got the potential there because if you have enough heat, the pressure that's created by the gas inside can cause that container to pop." "do you think the Flaky's are gonna go first or the buttermilk's?" "the small one's gonna go first because it has less mass." "it's gonna take at least probably a half an hour for the interior of those things to show hardly any change in temperature.." "Mmm, you're right, they need to work through." "yeah, I mean, it's too much mass." "it's still gonna be way less than 120 minutes." "we'll find out." "the leavening agent is sodium bicarbonate, and it is reacting with an acid to product carbon dioxide... co2." "if it is not released, you're going to create pressure in that container, to the point where..." "as the reaction continues.." "that container can burst." "whoa!" "whoa!" "Jamie do you know what happened?" "what?" "it jumped out of the rack." "that's the small can that was in the rack." "it jumped out of the rack and into my cup holder." "I'll be darned." "and so, where was our clock?" "Where were we at?" "We were at, like, 58 minutes on the nose." "So you won the bet then." "Ah, yeah, in fact I did." "I'd like to remove that one before it bakes dough into my cup holder." "Although I was right about which one was gonna go first." "You were absolutely right." "whoa!" "that was kind of spectacular." "we're missing a whole tin..." "I don't even see it in there." "Adam, which tin was it?" "that was the unrefrigerated." "that was the unrefrigerated flaky dough." "well, now, there you go... it blew the top right off of that thing." "that was the unrefrigerated leading brand." "this is stupefyingly boring, but, you know, things are blowing up in my car." "what could be better?" "whoa!" "it's 137 degrees right now." "well, that seems to be the butter zone.." "everything's happened above 133 degrees we should do this in Vegas, and then we can say," ""I went to Vegas and I blew some dough."" "whoa, ugh." "oh, man." "I definitely could understand how you'd mistake this for brains... here." "no, come on, come on." "no, feel it, feel it." "agree with me." "yeah, it's definitely brains." "whoa!" "what, did another one go?" "no. did it look cool?" " yeah, that one spewed." " oh, man." "that one spewed pretty good." "that tin is just, like, decimated." "like, decimated." "no, that one... that one was pretty energetic." "I saw what... it, like, ricocheted off the back of your seat really?" "and you can see bits of it..." "see that little speck... yeah, yeah, yeah, totally." "that might be our smoking gun." "the guys thought there might be a difference between flaky and buttermilk." "seems they're wrong again." "ho-ho, no!" "wow!" "that just went everywhere." "I mean, I just saw it vaporize." "look, it's in the front seat." "yeah, the whole can landed in the front seat the whole can landed in the front seat, which means it had to come across this way, easily hitting the head." "yes, there can be accidents, but I've never heard of an accident like this." "um, I wouldn't worry about being hurt." "I may have a premature bursting of my container, but I wouldn't worry about wounds from shrapnel from my dough." "Course." "I don't leave my groceries in a car at 140 degrees Fahrenheit or higher anyway, 'cause there are other problems we can run into with food products and micro-organisms there you go." "I mean, I think we've definitively proved that this is entirely... not one plausible" "I think, without a doubt, a can of biscuit dough has exploded in somebody's car." "of biscuit dough will go off in a hot car, a can of biscuit dough will go off within three hours, three and a half hours." "this is something of a first for "Mythbusters"... we can show the myth is physically possible, but there's no hard evidence that it ever happened." "I tried to track it down." "I tried to find the friend of the friend." "I couldn't do it." "I tried to find the location where it actually happened..." "I couldn't." "I looked for police reports." "there were none." "and truth is, this didn't happen." "there was no woman so stupid that she thought she was holding raw dough on her head, and that's kind of nice to know." "so, the falling lawyer." "what's the story?" "well, the story goes that, there was a lawyer on the 24th floor of a high-rise." "he was showing off, showing off his masculinity and his bravery in front of some kind of class." "he'd bounced up against this plate-glass window, maybe trying to have some fun." "and he did it repeatedly and had no problem and then he did it again, and this time, he simply went through." "and down this guy goes, falling 24 floors from his office to the ground, ' and he promptly dies." "our task is to prove whether this is possibly or not." "so what are the elements we're gonna need to replicate this?" "we'll,'we're gonna need a pane of glass, we've got to build a mock-up body" "we have to create some sort of a track." "and a means of loading this dummy body." "we'll probably use some, um..." "I've got a bunch of surgical rubber tubing that we can make a big slingshot." "okay." "and we'll have to also rig various ways of measuring so we're consistent about it... how much force" "whether or not it's possible for a person running at a reasonable clip into the window has enough pounds of force behind him to actually break the window." "the first reaction is complete disbelief." "and then the second reaction is," ""well, I heard that happened in New York or Moscow or Hong Kong, or something like that." "it's just one of those stories that seems to have kind of gone around the world." "first we need to decide what kind of track it is, whether we want..." "I'm thinking that we should roll it along the ground kind of track... you've got that..." "you've got the great... the dolly truck with the skateboard wheels." "okay." "that's got a really low friction." "I've only broken one bone in my body." "my neck." "so, how to build a lawyer." "we're going to assume that this guy wasn't a fat cat." "we'll make him, say. 160 rounds." "they're gonna be about..." "call 'em 20 pounds apiece." "20 pounds each, so it's gonna be 8." "now I'm about to weld a steel frame that'll hold up the sand bags, to distribute their mass roughly like a person's bod y." "these wooden blocks will stop our lawyer from falling backwards when he accelerates" "when the cart stops ' ' on to the next task..." "finding the right pane of glass." "something that would be suitable for the 24th floor of a skyscraper." "it's normally a thickness, which is greater than the thickness that you see in house glass." "you're talking about 6 millimetre or 10 millimetre at three-quarters of an inch, this 4-foot by 8-foot pane seems to be the standard size." "we successfully have a piece of glass for the falling lawyer..." "thanks." "I think I'll build the frame out of just plywood, and we'll seal it up with some caulk, just like you would an aquarium." "and we may want to... we'll put the tempered glass on the front look at that." "yeah, okay." "could have counted "three."" "glass comes in sealed units, and they're set into..." "into recesses in frames." "so that they're supported around the total perimeter usually." "our frame won't just support the glass... it'll also allow us to reproduce some of the forces at work inside tall buildings." "and then we also have to think of things like, if there's pressure in the building," "or that would either tend to, you know, make things different." "inside of a building, there's a lot of things happening." "there's mechanical equipment which is exhausting, exhausting air, and there's mechanical equipment which is pushing air into the building." "and if you don't get the same amount of air going out as you're pushing in, then you start to build up this stack effect is just 1.47 pounds per square inch, but we think that's going to be crucial." "because the glass has..." "it's, like, 4,600 square inches." "the amount of force..." "there's not much of a... yeah, well, you wouldn't think so, but it's a funny thing about pressures like that." "when you're thinking in terms of PSIs and so on, it adds up." "even a very small fraction starts to get into 1,000 pounds... oh, right across the whole face of the glass, so it could've played a significant factor in the window's breaking on the pressure pump up." "4,600 pounds of pressure is definitely something we want to factor in." "so that means that our frame that the window's going in actually has to... pressure chamber. oh, okay." "right, we'll seal it off in the back, and we'll hook a vacuum or a rressure rumr ur to it." "Jamie doesn't have a pump large though to increase the air pressure in the shop." "instead, he'll reproduce the stack effect b y sucking air out of the chamber." "[pump whirs]" "I can see the plex bowing." "this pump is too powerful." "it's threatening to rip the plexiglass out of the chamber." "and our vacuum gauge isn't sensitive though you know, what I think we should do is that we should just rig our own gauge our own gauge in terms of inches of water." "I believe inches of water is gonna be a lot more sensitive than inches of mercury because it's a lot lighter than what mercury is." "I mean, it's literally..." "we can put a tube in there, like, a U-shaped tube." "it's just like a barometer." "yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah." "and that's the kind of scale that we're dealing with" " is like barometric pressure." " right." "it'll be an interesting thing for us to know." "with a tube of water, we'll get all the sensitivity we want." "all right." "so, it should be about four inches of water no, no, no, oh, point..." "oh, yeah, you're right." "you're right." "that's magnificent." "we've rigged this leaf blower to suck." "hooked up to a variable switch, it should also be easier on the plexiglass." "there we go." "all right, you want... okay." "I'll tell you when we're.." "let's see here." "we've got sensitivity, baby." "keep going." "keep going." "little more, little more, little more." "Scotty, I need power!" " you want more?" " more!" " more?" " more!" "three inches of water." "yes!" "little more!" " oh, that's it!" " is that it?" "that's it... 145 negative psi." "we've proved the principle." "now, with the addition of some glass tube, a scale, and food d ye, we have a working gauge." "Mr savage, if I could suggest that you put a drop of the colouring in there first." "no, I was thinking I'd put it in after, and then I'd go..." "and, like, mix it up." "I thought that would be kind of cool." "ah, okay." "with the stack-effect problem solved, it's time to rig the slingshot." "Blech!" "we'll rig our slingshot somehow on... we can tie to the side of the shop or something like that." "so I was thinking for..." "to figure out his velocity, to figure out how fast he's travelling.." "we don't have a radar gun or anything like that..." "I was thinking we could take some flats and actually grid them, and then shoot from the side with one of the cameras." "which give us 25 frames per second." "and then we can we can frame-by-frame through the tape and see exactly how fast that he's travelling finally, everything's in place." "there we go." "three yards, that's my bet." "I'll guess that it's gonna go at five yards." "five yards?" "this would be cool if I could see." "[leaf blower whirs]" " there we go." " look at that." "all right." "first run from one yard." "nothing. three yards." "there's my five bucks going to hell." "penalty, five yards." "160 pounds at 3 miles per hour... our lawyer just isn't cutting the mustard." "I think we're gonna end up going to two bands... we're ready?" "two yards." "go." "three yards." "go." "even with two elastic bands, our lawyer is still coming off second best." "and all of this is..." "is bowing backwards... right." "...as this comes in for a second, so it really isn't... all these things aren't really making contact." "five yards." "there we go." "oh!" "all right." "there. are you read y?" "two, three, go." "it is possible that it's not possible that it's not possible for a person to throw himself through the window." "entirely plausible, but... through this window." "but it may not be possible for a human to do that by himself." "So far, we haven't had much lawyer friend to smash the glass, but Jamie's working on a hunch." "I'd be inclined to put all the steel bags... all the sand bags up high." "yeah, exactly." "I mean, starting here." "two, four, six, eight." "redistributing the weight up high will concentrate the impact." "Meanwhile, our structural engineer is working on a different theory." "Glass is an unpredictable material." "and although we use it, and we see it performing very well in thousands of cases, there are certain things which will cause it to act in a way we don't expect." "all right, so this is one yard." "two, three, go." "if there's nicks in glass, it tends to cause what art called stress raisers, and so you can break the glass with less force than you would a piece of glass that isn't nicked." "two yards." "one, two, three, go." "that seems better." " it's feeling pretty sturdy." " yeah probably a thousand times, nothing will happen, but you're dealing with a very brittle material." "and it doesn't give you any warning." "it doesn't bend like steel, it doesn't bow like wood." "it just goes kapump, and then you're out on the street." "three yards." " read y?" " ready." "two, three, go." "yeah!" "it worked." "it did... from three yards." "I won myself five bucks, wow." "yeah, the distribution of mass made a huge difference." "listen to it..." "it's like rice krispies." "that didn't look too fast to run at all." "yeah, that wasn't excessive." "very reasonable." "160 pounds, up on the torso, into a window with negative pressure." "nice." "yep. that's not that far at all." "Our lawyer covered 10 feet in 1.8 seconds, which works out at 5.7 miles per hour." "You jumped like the bat landed in your hairdo." "even if it's double the seven miles per hour, it's well within the human's ability to run." "And it seems totally possible with that pressure that he could've broken the window." "I'd agree." "it looked like what... probably the kind of speed I'd get up to if I was launching "at the wall, you know." "Yeah, especially with only three yards of start, you know." "It's only nine feet, and you can't really get up that fast." "This is absolutely a true story." "It happened at this location, at this office tower behind us." "The coroner who investigated the incident decided not to hold an inquest because it was such a freak accident and it would be extremely rare to imagine someone else doing the same thing purposefully." "That was fun." "Yeah. that was fun." "I like breaking things." "Yeah, breaking things is cool." " Yeah!" " Yeah!"