Aug 31 2004
Smashing Bottles
Why do they make beer bottles that shatter into tiny shards when you drop them? I spent most of Monday afternoon picking up bits of broken glass from the ground at the Vale Castle after the Vale Earth Fair on sunday, so that children don’t go getting glass stuck in their feet.
We have the technology to make glass that doesn’t shatter into shards (car windows, for example), so why can’t we make bottles like that?
Its seem pretty obvious that you drink beer, you get drunk, you try and drink more, but you drop the bottle cos you’re drunk!!! I’m sure it would save a lot of trouble at A+E if bottles were shatter proof.
Maybe I’m thinking too logically.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/metal_beer_bottles
Maybe the solution is as simple as only allowing cans of drink in!!! Se
only allowing cans in would be a simple solution but my rant is about glass bottles in general, not just in the vale castle.
And besides, beer from a can just doesn’t taste the same.
One reason that we dont have those shatterproof bottles is cost… ever seen how much a windscreen costs???
I meant to say also that I wouldn’t buy a beer for £45 a bottle just in case I dropped it!! If I drop a beer, thats bad enough