Comments on: Special 7: Hollywood on Trial

By: Warren Woodhurst

Warren Woodhurst — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 22:24:12 +0000

Dramatically unsatisfactory testing of the plate glass window myth. Dummy had no clothes and had to slide through the glass head first with no protection. All round shoddy work; not up to the usual calibre of this show.

By: Darryl

Darryl — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 08:54:48 +0000

My wife went through a plate glass window head first and only got a little scratch on her cheek and one on her hand, not even enough for a band-aid. So it is possible to go through a plate glass window and have almost no injuries.

By: Terry Jason

Terry Jason — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:06:23 +0000

As a shooter I have heard lots of warnings about shooting firearms at water. That the bullet can ricochet back to the shooter. I have a hard time imagining that scenario. Although I can see it bouncing off the water back up into the air. Can you do some tests with different bullets and different angles of attack? Thanks!

Thanks.

By: Isher

Isher — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:29:46 +0000

@ Steve Blevins:

Some types of diesel fuel ignite at a lower temperature than regular gasoline. That’s why there’s so much variation in people’s anecdotal references.

By: shooter

shooter — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:26:45 +0000

Smooey:
The sound of a ricochetting bullet is due to some amount of end over end spinning, so the pitch is from the rate of spin. I would imagine that a long heavy bullet would spin slower than a short fat lightweight one after identical impacts.
Doppler effect also plays a huge role.

By: Smooey

Smooey — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 01:59:02 +0000

Does the calibre of the bullet determine the pitch at which the ricochetting bullet makes the choing-choing-ping-choingggg noise?? If a 22 calibre bullet ricochetted at say, 2.5kHz, would a 9mm bullet ricochet at 1.5 – 2kHz?

By: Todd M. Paxman

Todd M. Paxman — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:45:39 +0000

The “sparking bullet” problem is a real problem in fire-prone areas, with dry brush. But it is only a problem with steel-cased bullets. I believe they only used lead bullets for the test. If they had used steel-cased bullets, they would have seen sparks for sure. So steel-cased bullets are banned during fire season in outdoor ranges here in Ventura County, CA, for this very reason.

By: Steve Blevins

Steve Blevins — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:45:08 +0000

To Lewis Cross, gas fumes WILL ignite from the sparks of an angle grinder. Do you have any actual shop experience? Think about it for a second. a single spark ignites gas (and fumes) in lawnmowers and cars.

By: Steve Blevins

Steve Blevins — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 02:34:06 +0000

Gasoline CAN indeed be lit with a store bought lit cigarette. I was in Auto/diesel shop in college and we had a truck up on a lift and there was a pool of gas down around the lift cylinder in front. Well our instructor threw his lit cigarette on the floor into it and “POOF” it lit right up. Took 2 fire extinguishers to put it out.

By: Lewis Cross

Lewis Cross — Tue, 13 May 2008 09:23:16 +0000

And a PS to the above – gasoline is actually quite hard to light without matches! An angle grinder and a stream of hot metal sparks wont, a glowing (no flame) coal or wood ember straight out of the fire wont, a red hot metal bar wont – but a ‘roll your own’ cigarette will reasonably easily!! This is because the paper flares (ie naked flame) where the tobacco is not packed uniformly tightly as in ‘taylor mades’