Building Melts Car

eionmac writes "A new London skyscraper dubbed the 'Walkie Talkie' has been blamed for reflecting light which melted parts of a car parked on a nearby street."

I'm melting! I'm melting!

[kervin]

What a world... what a world...

No!

[puddingebola]

Dammit, I told them to angle the mirrored glass like I said! Parliament should be in flames and now the authorities have been alerted. They've failed me for the last time!

Re:No!

[Tarlus]

Remember, remember
The Second of September
The Walkie-Talkie Building Parabolic Reflection
And plot

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Weather patterns

[Anonymous Coward]

Obviously the engineers failed to factor in the 2 days of sunshine in London every year.

Re:Crikey

[Anonymous Coward]

Decades ago, my parents were on a trip with us children in England. It was a seminal drive where my sister terminally established "I get a window seat because I'm getting sick otherwise": we brothers just managed to hand her through to the next window before she exploded barf all over the side of the car and the outside. A few hundred yards onwards my father stopped the car and we started cleaning it up, reverting to sage and other grasses and herbs on the side.

That's when a pair of British pedestrians strolled past us, greeting us with a friendly smile. Which was kind of really embarrassing since the gentleman had barf all over his side. I don't think that there are many countries where you can get that kind of reaction: you are almost certain to get a lot of rage and yelling. Never mind that there rarely is a lot of deliberation involved when children happen to vomit.

"Crikey, that's awful" reminded me of that.

Re:Don't build big *concave* glass buildings

[Anonymous Coward]

Seriously? Oh my.

This guy just wants to watch the world burn. Literally.

Re:I'm melting! I'm melting!

[Cryacin]

Eat that mythbusters! Archimedes was right! (Now all we need is to sail a trireme in to Fenchurch St somehow...)

Re:Happened in L.A., too...

[Anonymous Coward]

The Captcha probably referred to your spelling. ;-)

A variant of......

[Paul James]

(London) Shards with frickin lazors

Re:Talk about a sensationalist headline

[oursland]

Next time someone says they were "burned" by something, I expect to a photo of the entire person converted to ashes. Seriously.