Air Date: January 23, 2003
An obese person can get stuck on an airline vacuum toilet.
busted
It is impossible to get a perfect seal on a modern airplane toilet, and even if it is possible a properly working toilet provides suction for only a few seconds. Even then, the suction (3 psi) is not beyond human ability to overcome.
A woman was struck in the head with an exploding tin of biscuit (scone) dough, believing that she was in fact struck by a bullet.
plausible
The dough can blow out of many types of biscuit cans at a car’s internal temperature of 150 °F (60 °) with enough force to potentially strike the driver of the car in the back of the head. However, no one can actually verify the incident actually occurred.
A lawyer accidentally killed himself by running through the plate-glass window of the 24th floor of his office building.
confirmed
At a run speed of 4.7 mph (7.52 km/h), a 160 lb (64 kg) subject was able to smash through a pressurized plate glass window. The incident was confirmed by a journalist to have actually occurred in Toronto.
I do not dispute the “confirmed” status of the lawyer through window myth. But, every time I have seen the footage of the Mythbusters test, it appears to me that the wooden base of the sliding rig contacted the window pane first. (Before the blue part on the top) This wood part of the rig has a different hardness than anything the lawyer would have been wearing. I would like to see the rig set up again in such a way that there was no possibility of the wood rig contacting the window pane.
October 7, 2007 at 2:38 PMCraig is totally correct, confirmed is busted, the base broke the glass..oops guys. I play racquetball and wiegh qbout 225 and have hit the glass very hard many a time. One guy at the club did break one once–it was a very big section of glass too.
October 30, 2007 at 11:54 PMPerson running through a plate glass window can do it and not be injured. I watched my brother run through a sliding patio glass door at a home construction site….not a scratch, this was in 1962 before safety glass requirements.
January 13, 2008 at 1:13 PM