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Well, running is an alternative.
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Physics 101: d = vt
With enough v, you can achieve any d. 
Marc
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But still... How fast was he F****** GOING when he did that?!? 20 feet into a building?!
Drugs/Alcohol were most likely involved with this. I'd be surprised if they weren't!
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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If he went through glass windows/doors, I suspect that great velocity would be needed to go 20 feet. It also may depend on how soon he pressed the brake pedal. May be he panicked and took a moment to react.
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Message Closed
modified 17-Jan-17 22:19pm.
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Brisingr Aerowing wrote: Since the car appears to have gone sideways through much of the building
I'm not sure how you concluded this, given that the police seem to have reported something different:
Officers say the vehicle went about 20 feet in and ended up on its side in the building’s front office space and conference room.
Having said that, it's impossible to say if brakes would have helped or not without knowing the details of what exactly happened.
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And also E ~ v^2.
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It was a Prius.
So not very.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I know you are Joe King. But did you know the top speed of a Prius is 118mph, so around twice the legal "Highway" speed in the US  .
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But it takes all week to get there... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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The tricky part is getting through the hard shell to the soft candy center....
Er..rather: once you're through the exterior wall everything else is usually easy (excepting a machining shop or bagged concrete warehouse).
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli
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Not sure if it's just my filthy mind, but I took that in a whole different way. 
I'm sure goats could be involved... 
When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Donathan.Hutchings wrote: Not sure if it's just my filthy mind,
Me too. Two great minds, a single thought between them.
Marc
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When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others.
Same thing when you are stupid.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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So, what does happen when an irresistible force meets an immovable object?
Cheers,
Mick
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It doesn't matter how often or hard you fall on your arse, eventually you'll roll over and land on your feet.
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The objects become forcibly resistably mobile.
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Haven't you seen lethal weapon #n, smash through the front doors and drive 20' across the foyer.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Or Jason Bourne for that matter.
Man on radio: He drove off the roof.
Other bad dude: What did you say?!
Man on radio: He drove off the f***ing roof!
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...or The Blues Brothers
Cheers,
Mick
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It doesn't matter how often or hard you fall on your arse, eventually you'll roll over and land on your feet.
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Quote: The use of unnecessary violence in the apprehension of the Blues Brothers has been approved.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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... such stuff as dreams are made on
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I'm surprised it didn't go a lot farther. Once you've punched through the outer wall there's much less material to slow you down. Once you've made a hole big enough to get your roof in there's very little to stop you until hitting the next major internal structure and 20' is just enough to barely have the rear bumper inside the building.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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OK, so I live in a country where any building must be safe against the attack of a 1500 pound polar bear... At least we try to make tourists believe that it so (I think the last time a polar bear visited Norway was during the last ice age).
But we do build houses to be warm and cosy even when it is fourty below (F or C - doesn't matter). When I went to the US to live with a family in Minnesota for a year, my first shock was leaning towards the living room wall, and the wall gave in! Not completely, of course, but maybe half an inch at the most. Just thin (like quarter-inch) cardboard-like stuff. No wood panel, no plasterboards. Then the Minnesota winter attacked us, and sofas and chairs were moved away from the outer walls: The frost was really radiating from the walls. Didn't the walls have any insulation at all? I never found out.
My house is old, so it "only" has 3/4 inch wooden panel at the outside, then 8 inches of insulation, then a plastic sheet to stop the wind and hunmitidity, and an inner wall of at least half inch wooden panel, or half inch plasterboards. The current Norwegian insulation standard for new buildings is 12in, preferably as two 6in layers, one vertical, one horisontal. Stands are typically 4" by 6" vertical stands for one insulation layer, horizontal for the other insulation layer, making a mesh of two by two foot squares of 4" by 6" wooden beams. Inner walls also have 3" or 4" stands every two foot with half inch booden panel or plasterboards on each side. For sound insulation, walls may be filled with 6 in of heavy rockwool - my house only has a thin (like 1/16") cardboard underneath the wood panel.
Seeing 'trailer homes' for the first time (they are quite unknown in Norway) made me ask myself: Do they really live inside a tin can? We do have tin can caravans in Norway as well, but that is for two week camping trips in the middle of the summer - not for permanent living!
Sure, my stay in the US is a long time ago. But houses lasts for a long time. Noone that I talked to seemed to worry about it - the oil furnace in the basement was large enough to keep the house "warm" (at least up a foot or two from the outer walls) even with the lack of insulation.
In brief: The building standard of US housing relly shocked me. It would be fair enough in the south state climate, but in Minnesota... Whenever I see newsreport photos of crushed homes in the US (like this one I saved: An arerial of a huge, fully loaded truck driving through three trailer homes, stopped by the fourth one), I sigh: Well, that is the building standard, over there.
Maybe new wooden houses in the US are of a much higher standard today than what I saw in the late 1970s. But houses are build to last for a long time, and I wouldn't be surprised if lots of the houses I saw during my first stay are still there today. Crushing through those walls wouldn't require that much energy.
Brick/concrete houses are of course a different thing, and the one in this story is certanly not a wood building. Besides, the car seems to have gone through this huge window, which didn't reduce its speed by very much. So I find the story perfectly believable. I even would think it believable if the car had hit the wall, not the window, of a wooden building (or a tin can on wheels) as I saw them in the US in the late 1970. But not if the house was built by modern Norwegian standards.
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Building Standards have really changed since then. Houses have a lot more insulation and are built with stronger materials.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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