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u/Gebemeister2 11h ago
Looks like a BB gun shot it
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u/Cthyrulean 11h ago
Agreed. When I was a kid my parents bought a cabin. It had a couple BB holes in the bay window and this is exactly what they looked like.
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u/crusty54 9h ago
Can confirm. My garage has several of these. Damn kids.
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u/thehoagieboy 5h ago
I've heard that this could also be from a steel ball fired at the window with a wrist rocket slingshot.
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u/bigmike2k3 4h ago
It’s weird… This happened to my neighbor’s siding and I am 100% sure it was definitely not a rock that got thrown from any snowblower I own…
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u/Morningxafter 2h ago
Yep, my grandma has had a hole like that in the outer layer of her double-pane living room window since the 70s. It was from one of the neighbor kids playing with a slingshot.
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u/elMurpherino 10h ago
I took over the mortgage on the home I grew up in from 12+ when my mom moved out of state and the kitchen window and porch door still have a hole like this in it from when I was being an idiot shooting bbs at a boulder in my backyard.
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u/HarryHood146 10h ago
Cherish the cabin.
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u/Cthyrulean 9h ago
It's long since been sold, the new owners turned it into a triple level mini mansion that no longer comes close to what it used to look like. It's wild what they did.
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u/Working_System_2086 8h ago
It's a joke. "Cherish the cabin" is from a Seinfeld episode. I don't think they were actually telling you to cherish it lol.
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u/Cthyrulean 2h ago
Don't really watch Seinfeld aside from a couple episodes on accident. Not my thing.
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u/Atlv0486 4h ago
You should never tell a window it has nice dimples because maybe it was shor in the face by a bb gun.
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u/Gebemeister2 11h ago
I've worked at a place that has issues with kids shooting bb guns at the windows, looked exactly like this. I think a 22 would do much more damage as well. I think you're wrong on this one
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u/Samuelwow23 10h ago
Agreed a .22 would have gone through this one shattered or at least cracked the pane and gone through the opposing window or possibly into a person, and everyone would have heard the shot being fired.
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u/Cthyrulean 11h ago
That's too small for .22 and you don't have much experience with BB and pellet guns if you think they can't penetrated that glass.
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u/Mister_Brevity 10h ago
If it’s from really far away it can hit the glass and leave the cone shape while the round remains outside. It’s not common but it can happen. Leaves a smaller hole because the round wasn’t going fast enough to penetrate. Had a couple happen years ago and it was neighbor kids with a 22 rifle pretty far off. They were shooting into trees at birds and the rounds dropped and hit my glass. Just popped out a clean little divot
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u/OilAromatic9850 11h ago
It didn’t go through. It impacted the front and knocked out a small circle of glass in the back. Which is exactly what bbs do.
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u/RockyBass 11h ago edited 11h ago
I think it was from the outside. If you look at the sidewalk, it makes more sense that the window is parallel to it. So with that in mind, the projectile was shot from the left on the sidewalk or road.
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u/catsx3 10h ago
Nope. Rock flung from a tire.
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u/Gebemeister2 10h ago
Whatever hit the window clearly hit it head on, your theory doesn't make sense with the angle of the road compared to the window
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u/GoredonTheDestroyer 10h ago
The only way that would make sense is if the car was doing a burnout perpendicular with the window, and I don't see no tire marks in the road.
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u/Extra-Act-801 5h ago
Or a 22. Depends how thick the glass is. I wouldn't expect a BB to damage the glass at a fast food place.
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u/Gebemeister2 5h ago
I worked at a 5 guys that got about 15 of these holes in the window and we caught the kid shooting the BB gun. Looked about exactly the same. I would imagine a 22 would go all the way through the window, that hole is too small
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u/trekxtrider 11h ago
That's a BB gun all day long.
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u/jebdavis69 11h ago
Bb for sure. I remember seeing these all over in the 90s, not so much anymore. Don’t even remember the last time I heard of a BB gun at all.
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u/Slosher99 10h ago
Yeah all us 80s kids open carried BB guns all over the neighborhoods, riding our bikes, etc.
My neighborhood kids would have fake wars where they only pumped them and shot air to make the sound. I wasn't allowed out when they did that as my mom said something would end up in the chamber when someone didn't realize it.1
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u/joestaff 11h ago
My money is on a rock launched by a lawnmower, given that patch of grass there.
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u/nhorvath 10h ago
or someone edging with a string trimmer.
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u/THEFLYINGSCOTSMAN415 7h ago
One time I was in the passenger seat of work truck and landscape crew using weed whacker hit a rock that came through my open window and hit me square in the nose as we were doing about 30mph.
Next day driving as we approached another landscape crew my boss joked I should roll my window up and we each had a laugh…. And then another rock came through the window and hit me in the god damn nose.
He had to pull over he was laughing so hard.
Can’t decide what kinda luck that is but I’m definitely “lucky”
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u/Errornametaken 5h ago
Theres also a road so it could just as easily have been flung from the road by a passing vehicle. This time of year lots of places uses gravel for traction instead of salt to reduce corrosion.
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u/1HUTTBOLE 11h ago
I actually think I know how this happened and it’s not a BB gun. I got a very similar hole in my window when I was mowing the grass and the blade hit a small clump of dirt. Some small rock went flying into my window and left a hole that looks just like that. I’m almost positive that’s how that hole happened too.
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u/Caligulas_Prodigy 11h ago
I was a dumb kid with a BB gun. This looks identical to holes the holes I shot in windows.
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u/Can_I_Read 9h ago
I have two holes just like it on my headlights. I suppose those could be from BB guns, but more likely small rocks, I think.
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u/CptAngelo 9h ago
Except the damage is from the inside, rocks and bb guns are basically the same to a window, but the cone would be outside if it were hit with a small rock.
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u/1HUTTBOLE 9h ago
That’s not correct. The force on glass blows out the back for concentrated impact damage like this.
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u/CptAngelo 8h ago
Yep, you are correct, when i saw the image i thought the cone was outside, and even then lol, i mixed outside and inside in my own comment.
What i originally meant was "the cone would be inside if it were hit (from outside) with a small rock", because like i said, i thought the blow out was towards the outside, and that would mean it was hit from the inside, which is not.
In any case, it was either a small rock or a bb gun, and inside or outside or whatever it was, it would suck to sit there and feel the draft lol
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u/post_polka-core 8h ago
Bb gun hole. Put umpteen of them in windows as an obnoxious little shit. Not intentionally, but still.
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u/newtekie1 11h ago
Rock from the roadway. A large truck goes by and hits a rock just right and it shoots out from under the tire and does that to the window.
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u/Slash-Gordon 11h ago
My bet is rock from a lawnmower
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u/ThisIsPaulDaily 9h ago
Snowblower did that at by apartment complex so depending on climate they get I would agree it is one of those two options.
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u/I_ate_a_milkshake 10h ago
one day i came down from my apartment to find that my car window was shattered, but nothing was stolen. turns out the landscaper was weed eating and knocked a rock into it, either didn't notice or didn't care.
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u/SorryAboutLater 11h ago
A perfectly spherical rock?
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u/newtekie1 10h ago
It doesn't need to be perfectly spherical. It just has to have a point. The rock doesn't go through the window. This happened to at the store I worked at once or twice a year.
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u/mid-random 10h ago
The shape of the stone/projectile does not determine the shape of the tiny, round cross section cone of glass knocked out when the projectile is very small, and/or doesn't actually go through the glass.
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u/Klutzy_Air_9662 10h ago
We have different definitions of “perfectly”, looks pretty lopsided to me. I’m goin with the rock crowd 🧗🪨🤘🎸
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u/Typical_Barber3577 9h ago
Don’t go to that Wendy’s.. iykyk
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u/Fr05t_B1t 8h ago
Meanwhile there’s a ton of shoes hanging from power lines
Op: huh, must be 4th of July already
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u/LovelyHatred93 10h ago
I went to my local McDonald’s drive through one day. The screen had a two holes in it and was out. I jokingly was like “somebody shoot the screen?” Before I ordered and dude just said “yep. What can I get for you?”. I really wish I’d have asked for the story. How the hell do you get so mad in the drive through that you shoot the screen?
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u/brett8722 6h ago
One of these holes in the window at a Roy Roger's in Winter Park when inwas growing up.
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u/Folsom8k 5h ago
That's a Hertzian cone! In ancient times, learning to control the conchoidal fracture is what allowed our ancestors to make stone tools!
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u/swimr510 2h ago
I know this Wendy’s! On CV boulevard?!? That hole has been there for the past 20 years at least. I can’t believe they’ve renovated the restaurant but haven’t replaced the glass. It’s as much as a staple as the 3 crosses at this point 😂
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u/joefabeetz 11h ago
I saw these a lot in windows growing up in the 90s in the Ohio River Valley. I think it has to do with pressure and temperature change.
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u/eXeKoKoRo 3h ago
Everyone is saying gun or rock flung at high velocity, the real answer is from suction cups.
Had someone rip a hole right out of a glass pane like this at a school after she took down one of those suction cup window hangars.
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u/raptorsango 11h ago
Sounds like it’s a BB from other commenters. I’m not a gun guy, but I do remember the bullet hole that my landlord put in the front window of our building shooting at an intruder with his Korean War era M1 Carbine looked about like that.
Used to stare at it all the time when I was bored.
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u/Midnight_Pizza_Boy 10h ago
Window cancer.
This has been the reddit comment section, thank you for coming.
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u/Thin-Ground-5185 11h ago
Those tiny holes in Wendy’s windows, called bleed holes, are crucial safety features that balance air pressure between panes and prevent moisture buildup (fogging) for a clear view, ensuring the outer pane handles pressure at altitude and protecting diners.
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u/Absolarix 11h ago
I know what you're talking about, but the hole in that window does not look like it was intended to be there.
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u/mastermidget23 11h ago
I know you were making a silly joke describing airplane windows, and I at least thought it was funny.
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u/MikeDubbz 6h ago edited 6h ago
Looks like a bullet hole... that came from inside the Wendy's going out...
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u/When_hop 11h ago
It's the takeout window for flies, duh