Shattered Sunroof

Flint Dille I was driving along on Coldwater Canyon and suddenly there was a loud explosion in my car, right above my head. The kind of one you expect the world to go black after. I looked up and for some reason. I'll never know why, my sun roof had exploded. The car dealer doesn't understand, either. Unexpected consequence of ...

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Saturday at 5:39am · Comment ·

Michael Floyd, Lindsey Hughes and 2 others like this.

Paul Chiofalo

WOW. Now that was one pissed off sun roof! LOL! How much for a new one?

Saturday at 6:26am ·

Christopher Kent

Wow!

Saturday at 6:28am ·

Buzz Dixon

"See this button on your gear shift? Whatever you do, don't touch it. When you do, it releases this section of the roof and engages the passenger ejector seat."

I had a sun roof get blown off my car (one of the kind that raised up instead of slide back in the roof) while driving down the highway, but that was an old, old, old cheap/crappy car.

Saturday at 7:24am ·

Heidi Gygax

Freaky! Glad you're OK.

Saturday at 7:43am ·

Mary Pendergast

Woah scary. So glad you're alright Flint.

Saturday at 8:20am ·

Skip Press

Aliens never have been able to hit directly from another dimension away. They thought they saw an eye but it was just a sunroof.

Saturday at 8:52am ·

Flint Dille

Thanks all. I was never in any real danger. It was just kind of startling. Perfect event for a day when my fictional persona was a 40's private eye.

Saturday at 8:53am ·

Beth Bornstein Dunnington

This only happened to you so you could write about it in a more interesting way than pretty much everybody else. Wow, Flint!

Saturday at 8:55am ·

Gary Wittenmeier

Keep your thumb off the seat ejector button.

Saturday at 9:06am ·

Flint Dille

Yeah. It took a while to figure out what happened to the guy who was riding with me. He was stuck in a tree. Said he was all right. Told him I'd call 911, but I had to get to a meeting. Forgot to call, I'm sure he got down somehow. I haven't heard of any skeletons in trees, lately.

Saturday at 9:22am ·

Jerry Robbins

At least it wasn't raining!

Saturday at 9:34am ·

Ernest Gary Gygax Jr.

That was the sound of an actual teleportation. Just as the Butler did it so the you will find the Skeleton in your Closet!

Saturday at 9:34am ·

Flint Dille

It was raining, but it was safety glass so it just kind of hovered over my head.

Don't have enough closet space for all my skeletons.

Saturday at 9:41am ·

Roger Slifer

Flint,
A month after I got my then-new car, I was driving back from Wondercon. It was very windy and the driver's side window suddenly shattered into a million pieces, most landing in the car, some outside. Fortunately, no one was hurt. My car door had a lot of pebble-sized dings. (Honda refused to replace the door but did badly "fill in" the ...See More

Saturday at 9:49am ·

David Wise

Obviously it couldn't take the raw atmospheric pressure of your ENORMOUS charisma!

Saturday at 10:04am ·

Hank Saroyan

or you had the air conditioning on, it was 500 degrees in the valley, you opened the door, destroyed the thermal balance... the one layer of glass contracted and the other couldn't..so it shattered.

Saturday at 10:22am ·

Lenny Raymond

After a while the explosive bolts in sunroofs can become unstable - happens with nearly all explosives. You should change them regularly, whether you think you need to or not. You should probably have the propellant in your ejector seat checked/replaced.

Saturday at 10:41am ·

Sherri Stoner

If you were a 40's private eye... perhaps someone was trying to pop a slug into you?

Saturday at 10:42am ·

Mary Pendergast

Clearly your intense powers of concentration in recreating this era caused your car to attempt to transform itself in to a convertible.

Saturday at 11:01am ·

Scott P. Schomer

Buy American.

Saturday at 11:03am ·

Roger Slifer

Do they still make American cars?

Saturday at 11:25am ·

Scott P. Schomer

Ford's on top. And their cars don't accelerate on their own.

Saturday at 11:29am ·

Flint Dille

I figured it was an intended hit. Problem is that the sniper would have had to have been in a helicopter or high in a house on Coldwater.

Saturday at 1:22pm ·

Scott P. Schomer

I prefer my 'failing Japanese automaker' conspiracy theory over your 'KGB agent in the trees near-miss' conspiracy theory.

Saturday at 1:26pm ·

Flint Dille

Okay, so lets put the stories up on an imaginary film auction. See which story gets more $$$.

Saturday at 1:33pm ·

Scott P. Schomer

Rising Sun vs. Patroit Games? I think you win Flint.

Saturday at 1:39pm ·

Sharon Johnson-Tennant

ok, what kind of car?????

Saturday at 3:25pm ·

Flint Dille

Infiniti. I have to say that its my 2nd one. 6th year of them and this is the first non-self-inflicted injury I've had. Other than that, the maintenance is great.

Sunday at 12:39am ·

Shawndi Lynn

Whoa.... That had to be a very shaky experience! Glad you are ok...

Sunday at 4:16am ·

Flint Dille

I was never in any danger, just startled.

Sunday at 4:29am ·

Rachel Hanig

What??!! Did it blow off? Where did the glass go?

Sunday at 5:49am ·

Flint Dille

No... It just shattered, but being safety glass, it stayed pretty much in place.

Sunday at 8:46am ·

Milosz Feigin

If anyone has ever owned a corvette and forgot to latch the targa top....the same experience can be had.

Sunday at 8:55am ·

Jason Brooks

I had one of those gravel trucks fly by me years ago and one of his stones smashed out my sun roof - bad thing is I would have chased after him to make him pay for a new one if I wasn't in such a narrow part of the highway, to do a 180 on him....ended up costing me about 100 bucks and a major clean up...plus gas and time - low down dirty bastard...See More

Sunday at 4:45pm ·

Robin W Enos

That sunroof had a shape to throw men out of their car seats and into the shadow of a woman's lipstick. And you, sitting there at the wheel, with only your .38 riding shotgun, the tumbler of Jameson's in the cupholder sloshing onto stained seatcovers. Thinking now the whiskey was no damned good from the flying glass pellets. But all you could think of after the bang was relief, and the reek of that cheap perfume you'd bought Estelle at Schwab's. Was it relief, or release?

Sunday at 11:44pm ·

Flint Dille

Great!!! We've got a good pulp in us.

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