Warning...Exploding Glass Tables!!

My patio table exploded!

BEWARE .... If you have a glass table, it could blow up all by itself. I’m not kidding, here’s my story:

I have a large glass patio table and chairs that’s located under a covered patio in my back yard. Yesterday (the 4th of July) I was sitting outside at the table having a beer when the phone rang. I went inside to get the phone, chatted for a few minutes, and went back outside to finish my beer only to discover that the table had shattered into a million pieces. Tiny pellets of glass were everywhere.

I was totally freaked out. How the heck does a tempered glass table just explode? It was 4th of July and lots of people were shooting off fireworks but none of my immediate neighbors were shooting them off.

Then I started thinking, maybe the table was hit with a stray bullet or a kid with a sling shot, but someone would have had to be a well-trained sniper to hit the table under the patio and not break a window too.

What else could be that powerful to disintegrate a glass table and not damage anything else around it?

Then it came to me, (thanks to GLP threads) the table was hit with a scalar weapon and I was under attack! So, I waited for a few minutes to make sure the attack was over before I started cleaning up the glass.

Anyway, regardless of how the table was broken, my 4th of July was pretty much ruined because I spent the next 3 hours, sweeping up glass, running a shop-vac and hosing everything down. Good news is, I only cut myself twice.

After I got everything cleaned up, I started searching online for “exploding glass tables” and discovered that I’m not the only person this has ever happened to. Who knew??

>>Glass Patio Tables Explode Without Warning
Glass-topped patio tables are shattering into thousands of pieces, and federal records show it’s been happening since at least 2004. And, yet, the government has never put out a safety warning.<<
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And then I found this video:


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So just remember, next time you are sitting at a glass table, chances are it's tempered glass that has been weaponized by Chinese manufacturing.