New Honda owner

External Since: Mar 09, 2005 Posts: 36

>
> On a recent Mythbusters episode, the crew thoroughly tested several
> myths about submerged cars, windows, etc. Among other things they
> found was that a power window unit continued to work for 45 minutes
> after the door was submerged. That surprised me. One other
> interesting thing they found was that those emergency hammer gadgets
> you sometimes see advertised on cable that are supposed to break
> windows actually work exactly as advertised. The hammer head is a
> sharpened cone. Even under water, bashing the side window with one of
> the things caused the window to disintegrate into little cubes of
> glass.
>
> http://www.lifehammer.com/
>
>
> Elliot Richmond
> Itinerant astronomy teacher

Seems like a good idea to me, it was in the news some weeks back that a lady
and her kids drowned in their mini van after it rolled into a pond. Is it
true that the tip of a spark plug (electrode broken off I reckon) will do
the same thing? I've got enough old plugs, maybe I'll tie one to a piece of
wood?

External Since: Jan 11, 2004 Posts: 191

"Elliot Richmond" <xmrichmond.RemoveThis@xaustin.xrr.xcom> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:57:33 -0400, "MAT"
> <marcoat*RM_@SPAM_*hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>>Seems like a good idea to me, it was in the news some weeks back that a
>>lady
>>and her kids drowned in their mini van after it rolled into a pond. Is it
>>true that the tip of a spark plug (electrode broken off I reckon) will do
>>the same thing? I've got enough old plugs, maybe I'll tie one to a piece
>>of
>>wood?
>>
> Probably but the hammer gadget is cheap, widely available, and also
> has a blade for cutting a stuck seat belt (in an emergency), so why
> not just get one of them.

Agreed! I got some nifty ones awhile back from www.surpluscomputers.com
that also have an LED flashlight built in.