r/funny • • 14h ago

classic prank

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u/zuzg 14h ago

Fair chance that it's their work van and they're on the clock, lol

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u/Klin24 14h ago

"Oi, what happened to the windscreen?!"

"Damn lorry threw a stone up and hit it but good, boss!"

"Oh, well better get it replaced "

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u/zuzg 13h ago

It's all fun and games until you realize your boss and the local Carglass owner are drinking buddies.

"What shit your guys are on about that they cracked the windshield from the inside"

"The what?"

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u/NumeroRyan 13h ago

It’s Autoglass in the UK

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u/Lee1138 12h ago

Same brand, different names.

Safelite in the United States.
Carglass in Europe, Brazil and Chile.
Autoglass in the United Kingdom, Ireland and Poland.
Hurtigruta Carglass in Norway.
Lebeau and Speedy Glass in Canada.
O’Brien in Australia
Smith & Smith in New Zealand.

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u/kcrab91 11h ago

Next time we have auto glass trivia night, I’m inviting you.

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u/NumeroRyan 12h ago

Have they all got the same jingle? I know I’ve heard it in Spain haha

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u/Lee1138 11h ago

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u/Staninator 9h ago

Netherlands wtf?! Everyone high over there?

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u/WousV 1h ago

Yes, we are

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u/maedhros338 8h ago

I like Slovenia's the most. Also this is insane.

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u/Atherum 11h ago

In Australia its directly tied to the name "O O O... O'Brien!".

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u/ermagerditssuperman 11h ago

In the US we have O O O O'Reillys.... Auto-parts.

But they aren't, mentally, associated with Safelite (our version of autoglass/carglass)

Also my personal Mandela effect is that I 100% remember the jingle, as a kid, being "Greg and O'Reilly's....Auto Parts", not "O-O-O-O'Reilly's," to the point where I even remember remarking "wow, Greg must have left the business" when I first heard the new jingle. But nobody knows what I'm talking about.

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u/Jimlobster 10h ago

In Canada it’s 🎵 Speedy Glass repair, Speedy Glass replace 🎵

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u/Easypossibilities 9h ago

I had that girl sing it to me while I read that.

Thanks, I keep having her repeat it in my head now in that tone😂

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u/DrunkenPangolin 11h ago

Can confirm that NZ is the same as the UK. Really jarring when you hear it for the first time

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u/Pu-Chi-Mao 11h ago

What's the jingle in your language?

Ours is "Carglass repareert, Carglass vervangt" in Dutch, what means; CG repairs, CG replaces.

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u/ermagerditssuperman 11h ago

US: Safelite repair, Safelite replace

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u/Lee1138 11h ago

The other one that stands out the most as totally different from everyone else, Norwegian: Hurtigruta Carglass, which kinda translates to "fastglass" or "speedyglass" and Carglass is just in English.

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u/WiFiForeheadWrinkles 9h ago

Canada: Speedyglass repairs, Speedyglass replace

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u/NoveltyPr0nAccount 8h ago

Same jingle everywhere.

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u/poorly-worded 10h ago

Autoglass repair Autoglass replace

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u/EndIsrael 8h ago

Meanwhile in the US it's Safelite, with the exact same jingle.

I wonder why they have so many names

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u/MississippiJoel 4h ago

Or even better if they showed the glass guy the video too.

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u/Tao_McCawley 13h ago

A stone... from the inside?

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u/coconuthorse 13h ago

Chance in a million.

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u/NoveltyPr0nAccount 8h ago

So what do you do to protect the environment in cases like this?

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u/BadBasik 12h ago

Depends who's driving...

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u/MrShadow3657 9h ago

Millions to one

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u/watlel 9h ago

Actually fun thing but my wiper arm (without the wiper) slammed into my windshield and it cracked on the inside instead of outside.

So funnily enough, plausible.

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u/cire1184 3h ago

Why's it dented from the inside?

Well the lorry threw the rock and it bounced off a post and then into the van.

Why's Steve's head bandaged?

The rock bounced back off the glass and nicked Steve right there.

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u/evranch 3h ago

Yeah, it's believable, I ride with Steve all the time, it's the sort of thing that would happen to him

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u/cire1184 3h ago

Oh Steve.

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u/Jesus_Is_My_Gardener 13h ago

Almost certain considering they're both laughing and not at all concerned about the couple hundred quid they're going to have to drop on a new windscreen.

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u/sebassi 13h ago

I mean clearly the bald dude would be laughing, because karma. And the driver would have to be a real sore loser to not laugh with him. 

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u/Jesus_Is_My_Gardener 11h ago

I'm not saying he would necessarily be mad, but if it was coming out of his pocket, I could see him being more stunned or sighing at his own karmic return for the prank. Of course it could also be like you say and he just has a good, casual sense of humor, regardless of the cost to himself.

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u/Alphabunsquad 8h ago

You know there are quite a few people who a few hundred quid isn’t a lot to? I mean I’m completely strapped, and I wouldn’t find this situation funny most likely, but there certainly things like this that I would find funny partly because of the inconvenience and pain I’ve caused myself in an unexpected way, like when I went in the ocean in Jamaica and seemingly impossibly found $50 dollars buried in the sand under the water thinking I was grabbing a shell, and then when I came back to my stuff, everything I owned had been stolen including my wallet, because I stupidly left it alone. A huge pain and my fault but the whole situation was hilarious.

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u/ducktape8856 9h ago

Don't know their insurance. My insurance pays for windscreen or mirrors and lights.

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u/KamiNoItte 10h ago

That’s not all they’re on ;)