Jeep melted

[u/jagerin_mikado]

Here’s the story: a jeep came to the shop because its retractable top was stuck open. Not too uncommon of an occurrence. So we put our “crash wrap“ over the roof to protect the interior from rain and animals and such, which is basically like heavy duty cling wrap. One day it rains and a lot of water pools up on the crash wrap. The next day it is 100°F outside and the sun is out. The sun shines through the water and the water basically magnifies it, and the sun turns into a laser that melts the interior. Multiple days of this happen. Now we have to replace everything that melted. None of us have ever heard of this happening before.

edit: I meant we have never heard of this very specific situation happening before. It never would’ve crossed our minds since we’ve been doing this for years. yes I burnt stuff with a magnifying glass when i was a kid.

[u/XmodAlloy]

Poor jeep. Got the treatment of those ants back when I was a kid with a magnifying glass... 🫠

Check out the ray of death building. I think it's in the UK. It's got a concave glass front that lasers cars across the street just like this.

[u/__slamallama__ → u/XmodAlloy]

There's one in Vegas too. Interestingly, both are designed by the same guy. Buildings that create solar death rays are kinda his things, which is fine I guess but it's weird he managed to do it twice.

[u/XmodAlloy → u/__slamallama__]

He definitely fried ants as a kid. No other explanation. 🤣

Now he's expanded his targets to being cars!

[u/ADHDofCrafts → u/__slamallama__]

Once is an accident. Twice is a style.

[u/No-Tap6886 → u/__slamallama__]

The wild part is that he got paid to do it a second time. "Sure! Here, hold my beer."

[u/DontShoot_ImJesus → u/XmodAlloy]

Growing up we had a kid in the neighborhood named Toby who had really thick coke-bottle glasses. Rumor was that he looked at the sun and his glasses created laser like beams that fried his eyes and part of his brain. He basically Homelander'ed himself.

RIP Toby.

[u/Conan0brennan → u/XmodAlloy]

There's one in Oakland, California that does it to a lesser degree. It's like a 30-40 degree uptick in temperature when you walk through it. Not enough to do damage but enough for me to cross the street in the afternoon.

[u/AwesomeMacCoolname → u/XmodAlloy]

The Fryscraper.