Thread: emergency window breaker 6 bucks kmart

I've had one of these for years, I've never used it but it's nice to know it's there.

They are not banned, but not promoted either and if caught with one without a reason it can be treated as carrying a weapon. Now the odd part, it has been spoken about cargo barriers and that it is illegal to sit behind them yet in the new Prados the must have one such hammer on the cargo barrier with the back seats in. A lot of the new cargo barriers come with them and the mining industry demand them.
We use a Eickhorn Soligen rope rescue knife, that has a glass breaker on one end with a seat belt cutter (that is what the blades are for on most tools). Those gold type depress centre punches work well also. Best place to do it is in a corner of a window and never on a windscreen. If you are doing it while someone is in a car, use the window that is smallest and furtherest away from a casualty. If the window near a casualty has to be punched make sure the casualty and anyone with them is covered with plastic or a rug as the fine airborne splinters of glass can do extensive damage to lungs and eyes. Ideally the person punching the glass should be wearing a dust mask, app gloves and eye protection (not always at hand I know). It is fun to go around and smash windows in this manner and then cut the cars up.

Originally Posted by CraigE

They are not banned, but not promoted either and if caught with one without a reason it can be treated as carrying a weapon.

Jeez. I've had one in this car for 4-1/2 years and before that it was in my previous RR. I had never considered it as a weapon. Am I too naive?

I can't put it on a cargo barrier - I don't have one and no one makes one for the P38A.

Ron