Teacher runs into glass wall, destroys it

[Yu_Bumsuk]

Well this is a new one. This morning I saw that a portion - about 1.5 X 2.5 metres - of glass wall beside the glass doors of my middle school had been broken. I was wondering how on earth the students had managed to do that. Well it turns out it was one of my co-workers. She had noticed that one of her homeroom students, who was late, was ducking around the corner to hide from her. She immediately gave chase and dashed after her straight at the glass wall, her knee sprinting up and hitting the glass first, breaking it. It wasn't the new kind of safety glass that breaks into a thousand pieces but the older stuff.

It just got replaced and now there's a warning sign on it like you'd put up for birds. The teacher's walking around with a heavily bandaged up knee but it doesn't seems that thankfully her knee fared better than the glass.

[Ectofuego]

Awesome and funny story.  Thank you for posting it.

[Cereal]

I watched a guy do exactly that many years ago in Toronto coming out of a store beside Steve's Music.
Dude sliced his neck open bad, arterial blood spurting a glorious arc through the sky!

[Spongeblob]

I'm ashamed to say I did that kinda thing too. 

At Tokyo Airport, I was rushing to catch a connecting flight.  I had only a half hour to run about a mile of corridor.  I noticed the corridor was U-shaped and once in a while there appeared to me to be a gap through to the other side.   Grabbing a suitcase in each had I ran straight face first into a solid glass partition.  It was kind of a sickly thud as I slid down leaving only a greasy trail on the reflective surface.  Must have been a few thousand or so people notice.

Sadly I've done worse.  :(  Happily though the brain damage makes me forget easier.  :D

[taeyang]

the image of people scraping down the side of a pane of glass after just running into it is really funny for some reason...

until, that is, it happens to me!!  :o kkkkk.

[Dogleg]

I've done it on two occasions.

The first time was when I was about 4 years old. My family had Greyhounds, and I loved to ride them like horses. Don't worry, they loved it too. My twin sister and I were like the puppies they never had. Anyways, one day while I was romping around the living room on my trusty Bronco, Mr. Greggs, he decided to go full force into our sliding glass door. Surprisingly, we were both unscathed. My mom was pretty pissed though. I remember getting stung in the pinky by a bee while drinking an ice-cold glass of Cool-Aid the very same day. Simpler times.

The second time I went headlong into glass was when I was sixteen. I used to live in a garage I had converted into a studio. I replaced the garage door with a massive 6-piece sliding glass door that spanned the driveway. The room had a sweet checkered shop floor and a ton of cabinets that I made to hold my parts and tools, as well as racks for my surfboards. I still miss that room. Anyways, I ride a lot of bmx, and was riding my bike around in the front yard. My mom called me into the house, redneck style, and so I attempted to manual (wheelie) into my room from the street. Well, somehow the door miraculously closed, and I ended up smashing through it and falling into the engine bay of a car I was working on. Needless to say I was covered in blood and had several lacerations from rusty old Henry Ford steel. The 1930's weren't so good to me, and I had to get some pretty gnar treatments. I was also picking glass shards out of my body for weeks... Especially my feet.

All in all, I don't blame my mother and sister for laughing that time. I laughed too.

[Incredagogue]

This really should be safety glass...

My older brother ran into a window like this at age 6. Lost 2 pints of blood (received unscreened transfusions) and had a ruptured spleen removed. Hospitalized for 3 weeks!

[RobotsforJoey]

I was working at a summer camp a few years ago, and some of the teachers had organised a ghost tour of the campus one night. The idea was that the kids (teenagers) would be taken around a darkened building, and teachers dressed as various creatures of the night would leap out on them and scare the bejesus out of them.

The piece de resistance was when they got down to the bottom floor, and they were ushered to a big glass door, only to find it was chained shut, at which point a werewolf would come running towards the door from the outside.  They'd all turn, ready to run away, and another werewolf would come out of the shadows behind them, and they'd be trapped.  We'd lead them away down a 'secret' corridor, and back to the safety of their dorm rooms.

What actually happened was the kids got to the glass door, jangled the chains, right on cue the werewolf came running towards them, tripped on a flagstone and crashed right through the glass doors.  Fortunately no-one was hurt, but the kids (and teachers) nearly died on the spot, and we spent hours picking bits of safety glass out of clothing, and reassuring them that it was all just an elaborate special effect...

It actually fills me with horror just thinking about it!  Genuinely the scariest ghost tour EVER.

[dkmccracken]

hilarious

[dostoevsky_21_81]

I remember when I use to live in Busan, my wife and I were walking around in Seomyeon. We were walking to go to some coffee shop and we saw this scooter go by us. He went to park his scooter in front of a Nike store, but instead of hitting the brakes, he hit the gas and he shot right through the front of the glass store window. The large window broke into a million pieces around him.  The owner ran out and starting yelling at the scooter driver, "that's a million won, that's a million won!" I'm guessing he was slightly embarrassed.  :D

Just thought I would share my glass story.

[Brian]

I've splatted into a big glass door before, at Taco Bell.  Fortunately I didn't go through it.  But as someone with bad eyesight, I really appreciated the 유리조심 signs.

[tealeeds]

worth posting this... justin bieber running into a glass door..



and people in general running into glass doors...

[SuwonROKs]

I remember when I use to live in Busan, my wife and I were walking around in Seomyeon. We were walking to go to some coffee shop and we saw this scooter go by us. He went to park his scooter in front of a Nike store, but instead of hitting the brakes, he hit the gas and he shot right through the front of the glass store window. The large window broke into a million pieces around him.  The owner ran out and starting yelling at the scooter driver, "that's a million won, that's a million won!" I'm guessing he was slightly embarrassed.  :D

Just thought I would share my glass story.

Not glass wall story but you reminded me of something just as funny.  I was shopping at a wholesale produce market and some dude drove out of the warehouse on a scooter.  This was back when there weren't so many foreigners and I was quite the novelty.  He came out and just stared at me.  At the last minute he saw a wall of watermelons.  He hit the gas instead of the brakes and crashed into them.  He was lying in dozens of busted watermelons covered in juice.  The owner of the stall ran out yelling at both of us.  I was just an innocent bystander so I took off as fast as possible.  I could only guess the owner was going to try to blame me for causing the accident because I distracted the driver by being a foreigner.

[adamwatch]

I fail to find the humour in people running into glass doors and being hurt. Maybe I'm just a mature guy? I also knew someone who died after running into a glass door., so that influence me. I honestly think that some people here  come across more as immature students than teachers.

Adam

[summerthyme]

I fail to find the humour in people running into glass doors and being hurt. Maybe I'm just a mature guy? I also knew someone who died after running into a glass door., so that influence me. I honestly think that some people here  come across more as immature students than teachers.

Adam

Thank you for your opinions on the humor of people running into glass doors.  However, please keep unwarranted criticisms of other posters to yourself.

Personally, I don't see the problem in a bit of physical humor provided no one gets seriously injured.

[adamwatch]

"Personally, I don't see the problem in a bit of physical humor provided no one gets seriously injured".

I think death is quite a serious injury to anyone!

Adam