My son ( 3 years old) said he saw a bird fly into the window however I’m not sure. Surely there would be a smudge mark where the bird flew into it and surely it wouldn’t make a perfect hole like that. What do you guys think?

by l3m0ncurd

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  1. The hole and fracture makes it look like it was caused by a very small projectile going at a very fast speed.

    If you or a neighbour have an air rifle, or a sling, or equivalent, that would be my bet. Looks a lot like an impact shot from a ballistics test. I doubt a 3 year old could launch a small pebble at that velocity, and you are very correct when you say a bird would leave an imprint. I’ve witnessed the unaliving of birds and that isn’t one.

    If you have a grit or gravel driveway, it is wholly possible a stone would be flung towards your window. My parents had the same thing, but the window was only chipped, not penetrated.

    Edit: I zoomed in and can see some sort of dust. Perhaps the glass was weak and the bird wasn’t covered in too much crap? Doubtful though

  2. Looks like a ball bearing or something similar. Definitely not a bird.

  3. At a quick glance, that looks like the entry point for whatever went through your window – have you scoured the ground on the other side to see if you can find the culprit?

  4. The centre is very uniform and circular which means it was travelling at tremendous speed, my bets are an air rifle or a catapult shooting a ballbearing which may be somewhere in your living room.

  5. I had exactly the same in my kitchen window, i ended up finding a ball bearing in my sink……the only explanation was some little twat with a sling shot.

  6. The combination of concentric and radial fractures points to a projectile. The radial being longer than the concentric also tells us that the pallet was travelling at high speed. Judging by the size of it, I would guess a standard 4.5mm calibre air rifle. If I’m right, the pellet might still be inside your home.

    edit: typos

  7. I’m inclined to think a small projectile hit the window, and assuming it came from outside, I’d be looking on the ground in that room in a cone from the window looking for what seems to have punched a hole through the window. Could be a ball bearing or an air gun pellet perhaps.

  9. Projectile, but I’m hoping it’s a meteorite. That would be epic.

  10. A bird has become petrified and lost its sense of direction.

  11. Thats odd, there has been a recent influx of people having their windows shot at local to me in Norfolk, a .177 BB has been recovered. I can say however I once shot my bedroom window with a .177 BB from a uk legal full power air pistol and it did not have the power to make that kinda hole on the double glazing. It just made a tent tiny hole smaller than the BB with no cracking around the hole

  12. absolutely no way whatsoever that’s a bird of any kind – they typically leave a greasy, pale white / grey smudge, and the speed it’d need to be doing to beak glass with its beak would lay it out cold under your window

  16. I had something very similar not that long ago, went through one glazing only. It was 10pm there was a big bang and a group of teenagers running away. It looks like an object was thrown at your window from outside. It was £250 to replace double glazed insert, frame was not replaced.

  17. Either an actual bullet because or a ball bearing fired for a catapult I don’t think UK air rifles have enough power to cause that damage

  18. Crime scene investigator here, can confirm something definitely went through that window.

  20. Anyone been using a Strimmer or lawn mower? Thry flick out little pebbles faster than an air gun. If it was a lead pellet you would probably find it.

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