Strange hold in window

Hi all

Woke up today to find this mysterious hole has appeared in my living room window:

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't got a clue how it could have occurred but it looks like something has melted it's way through. Does anyone out there have any idea how this could have happened..?

cheers

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dustie
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D'oh, I meant "holE" in the title....

Reply to
dustie

Air gun pellet.

Reply to
ARW

Hand-grenade shrapnel?

Reply to
Andy Burns

inches...

Whats that blob centre lower edge and can you get your camera to focus on what you want it to focus on not what it thinks you want to focus on.

I'd also go for a liitle bit of metal going quite quick.

Reply to
Dave Liquorice

It's the black shirt/suit that scares me

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ARW

Certainly some sort of impact. The centre of impact looks to be the point at the origin of the semi-circular missing section. If that's as dirty as it looks then I'd guess it was a stone impact. What are the neighbours and particularly their kids like?

When I've seen an air gun impact it's been a tiny pinhole on the outside and a scab off the inside about the size of a penny.

Reply to
fred

it's smaller inside...

It's about an inch and a half in width

Basically, it looks like melted glass...

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dustie

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Reply to
Mark

Sorry, ignore my last response - the blob-center-lower-edge is a dent - on the inside...

Reply to
dustie

When this happened to a mate of mines front window he found a small ball bearing inside the glazed unit. MMMmmmm You might want to look inside and on the ground beneath the window. What you do then depends on what you find.

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Bill

Stone or air gun pellet seems most likely, as suggested by others. Sharp point-impact on the outside surface resulting in a much larger hole from the reverse side.

Woodpeckers are capable of doing that too, apparently, if they mistake their reflection as a rival - I had that happen here (and wouldn't have believed it had it not been for the woodpecker outside the window immediately following the impact!)

cheers

Jules

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Jules Richardson

As a follow-up to this, I've just found the missing glass inside the house as pictured here:

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came off cleanly with no shattering and has a very small dent in the centre of it...

Reply to
dustie

I'd second that.

You can see the impact mark of the projectile as a small circular area at the centre of the circular arc that fell out, and it's the right size and shape to be an air-gun pellet. The gun was fired from ground level in the neighbouring garden to the right of the window, or perhaps the one abutting it in the next row of houses along, which is why the most damage occurred to the left and above the point of impact, as the shock wave travelling through the glass from the impact would have been greatest in that direction. It might be worth examining the window ledge or the ground directly beneath it for a mangled pellet.

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Java Jive

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Java Jive

I've looked both inside and out and can't find a pellet or anything. To be honest though, my living room is an absolute tip so, if anything did get inside, it could be anywhere...

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dustie

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Keep looking for what may have caused it, a woodpecker should be fairly obvious, something smaller may take a while longer :-) I hope that you find the cause and that there is an innocent explanation.

I did have a pigeon crash into a window earlier this year and was quite surprised it didn't do any damage to the glass. It left a very interesting mark, you could make out the body shape and wings, looked a bit like a head on view of a jumbo jet. The pigeon was momentarily not happy though, it was laying dead beneath the window.

Reply to
Bill

The glass was well over a metre away from the window. Would a woodpecker cause that?

Reply to
dustie

A good excuse for a major tidy up!

When my mate, same guy that had the ball bearing through the window, was broken into, the police commented on the mess and he had to admit that it was like that before the break in!

Reply to
Bill

No idea, Jules appears to be the expert on those, I'm more into pigeons..........

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Bill

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