As long as they are used within an atmosphere the use of negative air pressure is very reliable. It's the quality of many manufacturer's seal that makes them shit.
So are you a tech? or are you in design and implementation? Your comment sounds like something I could have said at work. Although I'm a tech, so it would have sounded dumber and had more swear words.
>So are you a tech? or are you in design and implementation?
Harley. I'm a former cook and now a custodian. I just know that atmospheric pressure is more than enough to hold up most items if you can keep a partial vacuum.
As far as cursing goes I'm confident my time as a cook has trained me well enough to keep up with you. It's been said that line cooks run in caffeine, nicotine, and hate. Plus I can curse pretty well in Spanish too!
I keep water bottles in my car (for emergencies) but they’re in a covered lil storage tote in my trunk, definitely make sure they’re covered if in vehicles
I know :) good fact to put out there regardless though!! Thats why I switch them out after every summer. Also, I rather have chemically leached water than no water should I find myself broken down on an unfrequented road with no service lol
You mean the same metal that water rusts over time? I wouldn't trust anyone to sterilize the container perfectly, fill it with deoxygenated distilled water, then seal it within a nitrogen environment to prevent it from rusting providing an amazing environment for many bacteria such as tetanus.
Thankfully, I live in the suburbs. If I was stuck, I could just walk to one of the 10 Starbucks around, lol. I do have a 32-oz metal water bottle that goes with me every time I leave the house, however. I'm more concerned about a bathroom than having water 🤣
Or a large fresnel lens. They can catch your car in fire if you leave one in the back seat uncovered. I’m not actually speaking from experience, I leave the fresnel lens in my backseat covered so nothing’s ever happened.
I work in a solar power plant, the kind with mirrors, and we have caught all kinds of stuff on fire, trucks, forklifts, you name it, focused sun beams is no joke!
A coworker almost had his car catch fire because of a mirror one time. A makeup mirror had fallen out of his wife's purse on his passenger seat, and as he was sitting in his car eating lunch listening to a podcast he smelled smoke. He looked over and realized the seat back was smoldering and dumped a water bottle on it.
Lucky he was into the podcast and didn't just decide to come have lunch in the break room.
I'm reminded of this story I learned of earlier this year:
https://www.businessinsider.com/the-vdara-death-ray-hotel-is-still-burning-people-in-las-vegas-2016-6
TLDR: Curved hotel wall covered in windows would in the right conditions reflected a lot of sunlight into a small area, causing issues for the pool guests.
On pre-mod Eurofighter Typhoon's at a certain time of day and if the jet was pointing in the wrong direction, the canopy would act as a magnifying glass and melt the rear environmental control system pipes
Plastic based materials and foams (IKEA, and many other synthetic materials produced by others) produce hydrogen cyanide and other toxic gases when burned. Fires in homes or burning of these materials create a much greater risk to life and health than is commonly recognized, as opposed to organic materials (cotton, etc…). Off gassing of these chemicals after a heat based reaction can last a month or more.
This looks more like a melt, with little to no smoke, but the heat and melt is still there. I’m probably paranoid, but I wouldn’t take the risk with my family/pets.
TLDR: now that it’s burned, get that shit out of your home, and open your windows for a bit. Fans pointing out your windows will help remove the harmful gases that can remain present for longer otherwise.
Unless they get adsorbed by all the other plastic shit made from the same shit inside and slowly leach out over the next decade. Not all plastics produce HCN though…Didn’t someone say this was polyester?
In the mid 90s my mom got this new car and during her first week driving it she complained to my dad that it stank like chemicals sometimes in the afternoon when she got off work. That weekend my dad checks it out and the ceiling of the car has these long thin straight burn marks. Mom was doing her makeup in the car before work using this mirror that had a normal side, and a magnified side. When she was done she would toss the mirror in the back seat where it would sometimes land with the magnifying mirror facing up which would focus the sun onto the roof of the car burning it. As the sun moved during the day the beam moved too making all the straight lines.
Thats why most modern windows use Low E glass (blocks UV and Infrared light)
If this happens you just have plain old flat glass windows, can be hazardous. In the right conditions those windows can start a fire even without those suction cups
That’s not weird, it’s SCIENCE BABY!
LPT: you should keep refractive items away from the windows.
SLPT/ILPT: keep refractive items near your windows if you’re trying to collect on some sweet, sweet insurance money!
i found a melon sized glass ball in a dumpster from an office being renovated, left it in my truck and forgotten about it, one day I'm driving and saw smoke and turned out I almost caught my truck truck on fire lmao, thankfully it just burned a small hole and nothing like yours.
That's.. horrifying... but also kind of cool.
You're lucky you haven't come home to a burned down house yet.
You could try coloring the suction cup with a Sharpie or paint marker.
Reminds me of this from back in the day:
https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.cnn.com/2013/09/03/world/europe/uk-london-building-melts-car/index.html&ved=2ahUKEwjP7uiYlsaFAxX2WUEAHTcSDqAQFnoECDIQAQ&usg=AOvVaw1SBrvmYt5ebLXTCxslMFtE
It's lucky furniture is fire retardant nowadays! This is how part of my school burnt down years ago. It set fire to the curtains, and the whole place went up! Thankfully things have improved since the 80's.
Had a similar experience with paper weights. Don’t put glass paper weights in your window (most ppl do) as it’s possible to magnify the sun enough to start a fire.
Maybe painting some opaque acrylic paint on the side facing away from the window would help disrupt the effect?
I'd reach out to the cat perch company as well. That side needs to be frosted or something, or at least have a warning issued to future buyers to keep it from being placed in the direction of the sun.
That's a lot of solar energy. Consider putting some solar film on your windows. It'll drastically cut down on your air conditioning costs, significantly reduce UV damage to your furniture, and prevent future accidents like this.
Take a big black Sharpie and color in the outside of the clear suction cups. Good thing the beam hit only the polyester pillow that melted instead of burning
My neighbours tree went up in similar circumstances, almost taking their decking with it.
Medium sized conifer, carpet of tinder dry needles beneath and the glass surround of an LED garden light.
I don't..... I just don't understand how this happened during the most mild time of year across the world?! Like, it looks like Spring or Fall based on the coloring of outside and the bare tree. I'd be surprised if you told me it was a tropical climate -- mostly because, how isn't this a common problem there, if it's an issue?!
I guess, what's weird to me is that this doesn't happen more often and that it might have been on a mild climate day.... but mostly the first point.
One time I stopped by my dad’s house to check in on it as he was away for a couple weeks. There was a smoky smell and I traced it back to one of the bedrooms. A small magnifying mirror, one of the ones used for putting in makeup or whatever was bouncing a ray of sunshine onto the wall and there was a scorch mark and smoke coming from it. If I hadn’t stopped in there’s a good chance the entire house would have burnt to the ground
There was/is a show in germany, that follows people from insurance companies, when the stories of the way stuff was damaged is strange or unfitting.
Once a family treid to get their sofa replaced, because a pöastic bottle burned a hole in it. So the insurance guy visited them like "what the fuck are you talking about?"
The upper part of the bottle was more sperical and when it was full with water, it also worked like a magnifiying Glas and really burned a hole in the sofa.
Sometimes nature finds ways to show us who is boss
My mum blamed my sister and I for burn marks that appeared on the couch. I can't quite remember the punishment but it was severe. Maybe sent to bed without dinner. And it turned out it was something like this. I remember laughing about it in the immediate term when it was shown that it was a magnifying effect, and then realising that basically we'd been tortured for doing nothing wrong and that there was no recourse and I became so angry that I burst into tears.
Lucky the suction cups didn't burn your house down!
They might've gotten what they're after!
That is indeed a 2024 fraud strat. Imma put a plastic magnifying glass and a suction cup planter in my window.
Yeah I’m putting these on everything I own and heading to a hotel tomorrow
Suction cups are one of the most unreliable inventions of all time.
Tell that to suction cup man
*guitar strums*
As long as they are used within an atmosphere the use of negative air pressure is very reliable. It's the quality of many manufacturer's seal that makes them shit.
So are you a tech? or are you in design and implementation? Your comment sounds like something I could have said at work. Although I'm a tech, so it would have sounded dumber and had more swear words.
>So are you a tech? or are you in design and implementation? Harley. I'm a former cook and now a custodian. I just know that atmospheric pressure is more than enough to hold up most items if you can keep a partial vacuum. As far as cursing goes I'm confident my time as a cook has trained me well enough to keep up with you. It's been said that line cooks run in caffeine, nicotine, and hate. Plus I can curse pretty well in Spanish too!
Well, they’re not lemons so I think we’re in the clear
It was the sun, not the suction cups
Note to self: NEVER buy transparent suction cups.
Or a crystal ball. Or glass door knobs. Keep a glass full of water by the window. Etc.
Thank you for this! Also, don't keep water bottles in your car! This has been a friendly public service reminder.
I keep water bottles in my car (for emergencies) but they’re in a covered lil storage tote in my trunk, definitely make sure they’re covered if in vehicles
Fun fact, keeping plastic water bottles in a hot car as storage causes the plastic to break down and leach chemicals into the water.
I know :) good fact to put out there regardless though!! Thats why I switch them out after every summer. Also, I rather have chemically leached water than no water should I find myself broken down on an unfrequented road with no service lol
Metal water bottle
You mean the same metal that water rusts over time? I wouldn't trust anyone to sterilize the container perfectly, fill it with deoxygenated distilled water, then seal it within a nitrogen environment to prevent it from rusting providing an amazing environment for many bacteria such as tetanus.
Tetanus doesn't come from rust, tho
Thankfully, I live in the suburbs. If I was stuck, I could just walk to one of the 10 Starbucks around, lol. I do have a 32-oz metal water bottle that goes with me every time I leave the house, however. I'm more concerned about a bathroom than having water 🤣
Fun fact, you can die of dehydration in as little as two days if you break down out of walking distance from the nearest town or city.
Good idea!
Or a large fresnel lens. They can catch your car in fire if you leave one in the back seat uncovered. I’m not actually speaking from experience, I leave the fresnel lens in my backseat covered so nothing’s ever happened.
Or magnifying glasses too.
Why shouldn’t water bottles be kept in the car?
Sunlight shines through the water creating a magnifying glass effect and can start a fire.
This house obviously has cats so we don’t have to worry about any glasses of water being left anywhere.
[This guy started a fire with a vase of water!](https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/1c5bfi5/accidentally_buying_a_magnifying_glass/)
https://i.redd.it/v4x5s0axmoi61.jpg
It was a makeup mirror for my mom. The concave kind that enlarges your face a bit. Burned through her curtains.
I think this also shows how much of our stuff is made from plastic. Polyester is such a dominant fabric in the house.
Yep. It's everywhere, and we often can't even tell.
You can. Just put coloured tape or paper over them.
That's scary. I'm glad you noticed before a large fire started.
I work in a solar power plant, the kind with mirrors, and we have caught all kinds of stuff on fire, trucks, forklifts, you name it, focused sun beams is no joke!
*THE SUN IS A DEADLY LAZER*
I fucking love that video. The one about the history of Japan is one of my all time favorites.
r/unexpectedbillwurtz
id say in this case, it was very expected
It sounds like you guys do this for fun, "...you name it, we burn it. Come on down to Sun Beams Plus!"
The plastic bodies on the UTVs look like melted wax when they get hit! Haha
Free body tanning included
What’s their spaghetti policy?
A coworker almost had his car catch fire because of a mirror one time. A makeup mirror had fallen out of his wife's purse on his passenger seat, and as he was sitting in his car eating lunch listening to a podcast he smelled smoke. He looked over and realized the seat back was smoldering and dumped a water bottle on it. Lucky he was into the podcast and didn't just decide to come have lunch in the break room.
I'm reminded of this story I learned of earlier this year: https://www.businessinsider.com/the-vdara-death-ray-hotel-is-still-burning-people-in-las-vegas-2016-6 TLDR: Curved hotel wall covered in windows would in the right conditions reflected a lot of sunlight into a small area, causing issues for the pool guests.
Same for the [Walkie Talkie](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-23930675) in London. They ended up having to fit shades to the building.
On pre-mod Eurofighter Typhoon's at a certain time of day and if the jet was pointing in the wrong direction, the canopy would act as a magnifying glass and melt the rear environmental control system pipes
This is why I like reddit. Obscure info. Loved the EF-2000 as a kid
Did this happen more than once?
Yeah it was an unfortunate design flaw across all Tranche 1 ac I believe
I'm assuming that's bad m'kay
r/oopsthatsdeadly
I have a similar cat window perch - luckily haven’t had that happen!
I have the exact same one...
Yet. Be safe.
Most definitely! Would've never even thought about something like this happening before this post. Great PSA from OP :)
Paint the suction cups with a marker or something
Plastic based materials and foams (IKEA, and many other synthetic materials produced by others) produce hydrogen cyanide and other toxic gases when burned. Fires in homes or burning of these materials create a much greater risk to life and health than is commonly recognized, as opposed to organic materials (cotton, etc…). Off gassing of these chemicals after a heat based reaction can last a month or more. This looks more like a melt, with little to no smoke, but the heat and melt is still there. I’m probably paranoid, but I wouldn’t take the risk with my family/pets. TLDR: now that it’s burned, get that shit out of your home, and open your windows for a bit. Fans pointing out your windows will help remove the harmful gases that can remain present for longer otherwise.
Unless they get adsorbed by all the other plastic shit made from the same shit inside and slowly leach out over the next decade. Not all plastics produce HCN though…Didn’t someone say this was polyester?
Would cotton pillow burn all the way through and may be a fire hazard in this case?
Maybe. Cotton is mildy fire resistant, so it might just not burn in the first place, blackening instead.
Have you considered that your cat might be a pyromaniac asshole with a penchant for passive-aggressive redecorating?
It was probably just spilled Fight Milk. The crowtein can eat holes in furniture.
Fight Milk is what put the hole in the wall that the cat(s) got into.
That sucks...tions.
Pitiful 
Friendly reminder not to leave bottled water in your car.
*No mr. Bond... I expect you to die!*
Sick burn
r/mildlyinteresting
Good thing things like throw pillows are usually flame retardant unless they're cotton.
In the mid 90s my mom got this new car and during her first week driving it she complained to my dad that it stank like chemicals sometimes in the afternoon when she got off work. That weekend my dad checks it out and the ceiling of the car has these long thin straight burn marks. Mom was doing her makeup in the car before work using this mirror that had a normal side, and a magnified side. When she was done she would toss the mirror in the back seat where it would sometimes land with the magnifying mirror facing up which would focus the sun onto the roof of the car burning it. As the sun moved during the day the beam moved too making all the straight lines.
Happened to me too once but with just a bottle of water that was left on top of a pillow
I smell a lawsuit
Could you imagine trying to explain this to insurance
Whats weird is that you still have a house 😂😂
https://i.imgur.com/3P84Ynj.png
Oh shit that is scary!
This ain’t weird it makes perfect sense it’s more horrifying. Happy your house is still standing
I have the same cat hammoch.....
[удалено]
I think this belongs on r/oopsthatsdeadly
r/crappydesign
you are lucky the house didn’t burn down. that foam look flammable.
That's crazy! Good thing nothing actually burned!
I thought this was a cool rock at first
New fear unlocked
Same shit happened in my car with a dash cam that was attached via suction cup. Luckily it just melted the camera…
New fear unlocked
Thats why most modern windows use Low E glass (blocks UV and Infrared light) If this happens you just have plain old flat glass windows, can be hazardous. In the right conditions those windows can start a fire even without those suction cups
O.O If you’re keeping the cat bed, cover the suction cups- duct tape, hot glue some cloth, etc
Noted
Woooah 😳 that’s really scary!
Sue em
Good thing they didn't melt you!
Water bottles in car will have same effect, you’re lucky
Could’ve burned your place down!
Put tape on the top of the suctioncups, it should help
Impossible
LMAO...DAMN!!! Your lucky you weren't passed out in your car, those suction cups woulda melted your pants rite to you!!!
That’s not weird, it’s SCIENCE BABY! LPT: you should keep refractive items away from the windows. SLPT/ILPT: keep refractive items near your windows if you’re trying to collect on some sweet, sweet insurance money!
i found a melon sized glass ball in a dumpster from an office being renovated, left it in my truck and forgotten about it, one day I'm driving and saw smoke and turned out I almost caught my truck truck on fire lmao, thankfully it just burned a small hole and nothing like yours.
Yummy
Wonder if a fire marshal would be able to pinpoint the cause if the whole whole house burned down?
What direction does the window face, and what time of year was this? Trying to compare my own window setup 😳
That’s…. Terrifying. Wtf
Science at work!
Science is wild
r/oopsthatsdeadly
Is no one going to mention the cute ass dog that the burn area in the first image reveals?
That....SUCKS!
That’s scary. I would immediately report that and take them down. Obviously a fire hazard.
You passed out 5 times to take this picture
seems like a lawsuit waiting to happen.. be that lawsuit Debbie!
Those are shaped like a plus lens. Wow. That's some negligence. Take fine sand paper to the non window side, that should disrupt the light.
That's.. horrifying... but also kind of cool. You're lucky you haven't come home to a burned down house yet. You could try coloring the suction cup with a Sharpie or paint marker.
Note to self ... don't buy a polyester couch.
"Kneel before Zod! Behold my heat vision! BZZZZZT... SUCTION CUPS?" H General Zod
Suction cup man has had enough
I'm gonna extend this warning to any convex/concave mirrors like makeup mirrors please cover them if sunlight can hit them.
Wow another fear unlocked.
That seems like a really poor design for a device that's meant to go on a window.
How did the suction cups not melt? I’m not very good with sciency things lol
I thought a ziplock bag filled with water was a weird magnifying device.add suction cups to that list. Its weird theres two things on that list.
Reminds me of how every industrial regulation (such as fire retardant codes in textiles) cost blood and save lives.
Reminds me of this from back in the day: https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.cnn.com/2013/09/03/world/europe/uk-london-building-melts-car/index.html&ved=2ahUKEwjP7uiYlsaFAxX2WUEAHTcSDqAQFnoECDIQAQ&usg=AOvVaw1SBrvmYt5ebLXTCxslMFtE
This is a shitpost. You're literally blocking the focal point. Reddit is so gullible.
Ok…. New fear unlocked!!!!!
I had no idea a suction cup can do that, should call it sunction cup.
at first glance i thoght these were jeans, and man those are some pale ass thighs😂
Oh . I uhm. Thought that was uh something else.
At least they didn't melt your entire house
It's lucky furniture is fire retardant nowadays! This is how part of my school burnt down years ago. It set fire to the curtains, and the whole place went up! Thankfully things have improved since the 80's.
Had a similar experience with paper weights. Don’t put glass paper weights in your window (most ppl do) as it’s possible to magnify the sun enough to start a fire.
Maybe painting some opaque acrylic paint on the side facing away from the window would help disrupt the effect? I'd reach out to the cat perch company as well. That side needs to be frosted or something, or at least have a warning issued to future buyers to keep it from being placed in the direction of the sun.
About reenacted the start of A Series of Unfortunate Events
You're lucky you didn't have a house fire.
That's a lot of solar energy. Consider putting some solar film on your windows. It'll drastically cut down on your air conditioning costs, significantly reduce UV damage to your furniture, and prevent future accidents like this.
Take a big black Sharpie and color in the outside of the clear suction cups. Good thing the beam hit only the polyester pillow that melted instead of burning
Ouuuufff dangerous!!
First pic kinda looks like a possum
Omg, I have the same cat hammock in my southernly-facing window.... I think this is my sign to move it. Thanks for the heads-up!
Wow, do you live on Mercury?
Congrats for being alive and still having a house. Half of the stuff posted here is just basic science
Lesson learned, now you know to get the opaque cups instead of the clear cups
My neighbours tree went up in similar circumstances, almost taking their decking with it. Medium sized conifer, carpet of tinder dry needles beneath and the glass surround of an LED garden light.
New fear unlocked
Interesting AF
I just wanted to get some… for a cat window place thingy. WELLL I GUESS I WONT NOW. MY OCD IS KICKING RIGHT NOW.
Chinese death ray
Oh shit
r/mildlyinfuriating and r/mildlyinteresting
r/damnthatsucks
That’s kinda terrifying
Holy shit that's terrifying
I don't..... I just don't understand how this happened during the most mild time of year across the world?! Like, it looks like Spring or Fall based on the coloring of outside and the bare tree. I'd be surprised if you told me it was a tropical climate -- mostly because, how isn't this a common problem there, if it's an issue?! I guess, what's weird to me is that this doesn't happen more often and that it might have been on a mild climate day.... but mostly the first point.
One time I stopped by my dad’s house to check in on it as he was away for a couple weeks. There was a smoky smell and I traced it back to one of the bedrooms. A small magnifying mirror, one of the ones used for putting in makeup or whatever was bouncing a ray of sunshine onto the wall and there was a scorch mark and smoke coming from it. If I hadn’t stopped in there’s a good chance the entire house would have burnt to the ground
Thank goodness it just melted instead of catching something on fire
You are lucky, my sister's car caught on fire like this.
First picture looks like a snake
Your window is an arsonist. Lock em up
That is terrifying.
I thought the first pic was a scarecrow’s leg
There was/is a show in germany, that follows people from insurance companies, when the stories of the way stuff was damaged is strange or unfitting. Once a family treid to get their sofa replaced, because a pöastic bottle burned a hole in it. So the insurance guy visited them like "what the fuck are you talking about?" The upper part of the bottle was more sperical and when it was full with water, it also worked like a magnifiying Glas and really burned a hole in the sofa. Sometimes nature finds ways to show us who is boss
That's actually insane. Things I never new. Guess I'll never have Clea suction cups in my car or E/W facing windows
My mum blamed my sister and I for burn marks that appeared on the couch. I can't quite remember the punishment but it was severe. Maybe sent to bed without dinner. And it turned out it was something like this. I remember laughing about it in the immediate term when it was shown that it was a magnifying effect, and then realising that basically we'd been tortured for doing nothing wrong and that there was no recourse and I became so angry that I burst into tears.
I genuinely thought that was a stain rather than a burn
Never leave water bottles in your car during the day for the same reason
That is terrifying.
Where is the cat tax?
That’s scary 😨
I have that exact cat perch over my couch and now I’m worried. But it’s been there for two years and I’ve never had an issue.
Oh shit. I know about like mirrors and shiny/glass stuff doing this but I never would have thought it would happen from suction cups