A bullet just came through my skylight

[J-Bassomatic]

Wow, what a story. Glad you're both ok!

As for skylight shattering, my guess is that skylights have to be made out of something that's not going to shatter. I know my bathroom window (which is in my shower surround) was required to be made out of tempered glass, like automotive glass. It's the same sort of safety issue, although I guess I generally move faster in a car than in my shower, but on the other hand I'm seldom wet and naked in my car. Just in case you were wondering.

Seldom???

 

[J-Bassomatic]

That's exactly what I was thinking. A new skylight is expensive, but a single perforation in a shingled roof, might be difficult to find, and go undetected while causing a lot of damage, and deterioration. The water might leak into your living space some distance from the source. Now is the time to buy a newer, and better skylight than the existing one.

Slightly off subject but concerning bullets going the other way and roofs. When we bought our house we knew it's former occupants were rather well know by law enforcement (not for felonious activity, but domestic). I was on the roof one day cleaning out gutters, it's a 60's ranch, and I notice what looks like a puncture in a shingle. When I investigated I found a .22 slug embedded in the plywood underlay. Looking around I found four more bullet holes and another slug that didn't make it all the way through from the INSIDE. Weird.

 

[S-Bigbottom]

Good point. But if it shatters it goes into not-sharp pieces, yes? So this is why the window in my shower is required to have it - so if I thrash around with a sharp object (while wet and naked) and manage to break the window, the neighbors will get an eyefull but I won't bleed out in my warm wet shower?

Yup.
They will find you on the floor covered in what looks like a thousand diamonds.

 

[blastoff99]

Yup.
They will find you on the floor covered in what looks like a thousand diamonds.

I hope not. It's the most expensive window in my house. Also the smallest.

 

[Gazman]

No, the casing that is ejected is usually brass of some sort, the bullet is sometimes clad in copper like this one. Utterly frightening story, glad no one was injured

Thank you, (I never made it past lunch, day 1 at Langley)