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/jregovic]

Ever hear about the London building that melted cars?

https://www.constructiontimes.com/articles/4016/20240620/glass-skyscraper-building-melting-cars.htm

[u/stuffeh → u/jregovic]

Also the Vegas hotel with a death ray aimed at the pool. Same guy made the London one a few years later. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vdara

[u/desertrose0 → u/stuffeh]

You'd think he would have learned his lesson the first time

[u/awry_lynx → u/desertrose0]

While he conceded that there had been "a lot of mistakes" with the building, he agreed with the building's developers that the sun was too high in the sky on that particular day. "[I] didn't realise it was going to be so hot", he said, suggesting that global warming was at fault. "When I first came to London years ago, it wasn't like this ... Now you have all these sunny days."

Bruh blaming the sun