Bottle breaking in movies has always bothered me, it seems like breaking a bottle on someone’s face would be extremely difficult, or a freak happening.
When I was a kid some teens threw a 6 ounce coke bottle at my face as they drove by at about 35 mph, it missed me, but I knew that the damage would have been far worse than knew, perhaps even fatal, but I have never thought that the bottle would have broke.
You can find videos on Youtube of idiot guys breaking empty beer bottles on their own skulls.
Different from the claim in the article in at least two ways.
Skull is not face. Though come to think of it, hair might provide as much paddings as the additional flesh on the face.
Arm and bottle have a lot more mass and inertia than bottle alone. Which means the flying bottle would need to hit at much greater speed to break.
I watched my brother throw a coke bottle at the head of another kid and score a strike - right in the center of his forehead. It was perfect - literally the center of his forehead.
Had it not hit the boy in that spot, I’m quite sure the other boy may have been killed or severly injured.
The bottle shattered into a million pieces, with NONE hitting the kids eye. I see it like it was yesterday.
The kid was knocked straight back on his back. He then got up and started screaming.
To make matters more miraculous, the bottle was one of the think, 12 ounce serving Coca Cola bottles they used to sell in the machines that held the bottle back by the neck in a rack. You open the little fridge door and pull them out.
It was an according to hoyle miracle. My brother missed killing or severely injuring a kid by centimeters in the horizontal or vertical directions.
Movie bottles are made of melted sugar, not glass. They are quite fragile, but the water in them can weigh enough to hurt.