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http://www.apple.com/shop/product/HJWF2LL/A/dji-phantom-4-camera-drone?afid=p238|sQLxNT7Ag-dc_mtid_1870765e38482_pcrid_80492267170_&cid=aos-us-kwg-pla-btb-slid- This one which looks a lot like the one in the article can go 45 miles an hour. That combined with a good wind gust around buildings can get it going to 90 MPH easy if itâs out of control (it doesnât take much altitude to get big gusts).
From there it all depends on how the drone hit. If it broadsided the window it would just bounce off, but if it got blown into it in a gust, which happens a lot around large buildings, it could easily hit at a point on it (namely any of the legs) and thatâd easily break the window if itâs going at a good clip.
Yeah, this is totally plausible, to be honest. It doesnât take much to break a window if you concentrate that much force on one point, and drones sure as hell can go quite fast.
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Maybe, maybe not. Drones can travel at over 100 MPH, especially if a gust gets it and there are many plastics and resins that are much sturdier than a baseball; plastics arenât just the flimsy stuff youâre used to having containers made of. There are plenty of structural plastics that I would trust my life to (and many that all of us do without even realizing it 
). And the drone has one key thing a baseball doesnât have, POINTS. All it takes to break a window is a point and little bit of force. If you want to experiment with this and trash your hand, punch a glass pane with and without a ring. You may not be able to break it with your bare hand, but punch it with a ring on and youâll break that glass for sure (and probably sever your hand at the same time).
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When hit. But a lot of broken windows come from kids playing catch. Also, the average kid tosses about a softer version (although same size) Little League style ball at much slower speed. Itâs incredibly rare to see a Little Leaguer throw 80 mph, and even rarer for out of shape adults to go beyond 50 mph.
So youâre telling me heâs probably a redditor?
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Iâm a public sector medical doctor. I own a house and a dinghy.
You must do a lot of private practice ⌠
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At least the drone wasnât being chased by a bear.
Mostly in Austin area coffee shops. You never know. Toothpicks. Toothpicks.
âYou should quit traumatizing drone head injury victims.â
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What did I just watch?! 
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Hard to tell from that weirdly disjointed video, but generally office windows are a little sturdier than those in Ol Lady Jessups house out back a th sandlot.
Yeah but you also have to look at the pay off. Hoaxes rarely are just random shit. They are something like âamazing shotsâ, or something where it looks like it is going to go bad and then it doesnât at the last second (element of danger), or showing aliens or big foot or something.
I too thought about windows being too robust for breaking, but then I saw the pics and these arenât the thick ones used in sky scrapers. It is more or less like the window in your house in an older brick building. It also isnât a great shot of the action. If you were going to fake it, you would want to make it a convincing shot, like a direct ram into the window. Instead you get a confusing run into the window backwards.
I too enjoy a healthy dose of skepticism, but Occamâs razor often applies in these sort of things.
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Hit in the head with a drone? Ouch! Also Bagpipes: weapons of self-defense
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This is a South African (read: third world) office building, and itâs overwhelmingly obvious that itâs not a tempered window, as what is used in the USA in all office buildings that I know of. Itâs crappy soft glass. Of course it can be broken easily!
Well maybe they should work on upgrading their office building infrastructure before throwing away their weird-looking money on toys from ThinkGeek.
Besides, South Africa canât be âThird Worldâ â they have white people!
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Everywhere has white people. The coldest plateau, the hottest desert, the highest mountain and the deepest oceanic rift; they crop up everywhere and you canât get rid of them.
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Itâs a clip from Richard Linkletterâs first feature, Slacker. Plot summary: There is no plot.
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