How can a glass bottle hit off someone's head not smash but the person's head bleeds?

Question

My friend hit a glass bottle off his head, his head was bleeding but the bottle didn't smash.

Answer 1

Your skull is hard but it has a cuson of skin covering it. It is completely possible for the bottle (if think enough) to hit him in the head, break the skinwide open, but not hit a hard enough part of the skull to smash it.

Answer 2

Here is a true story that answers your question. In my college days I worked for my father in his restaurant and tavern as a bartender. He told me to take an Old Mister Boston bottle of any of the liquors and put it into my ice bin at the beginning of my shift. Old Mr. Boston was a liquor distillery. The neck of the bottle was a little longer than most other liquor bottles and the glass was a little thicker also. The reason. If someone decided that they wanted to come across the bar, I would grab the bottle by the neck and swing it into his jaw. The bottle would not break and, if necessary, hit him a second time. The thickness of liquor bottle varies by distillery.

Answer 3

You can still break skin even if the glass doesn't break because the glass is hard.

Let's see...why would your head bleed if a big round rock hit it, and the rock didn't break?

Same answer.

Answer 4

Are you sure it wasn't YOU that was hit in the head with a bottle?

Answer 5

some bottles are thicker than others must have been a thick bottle that's why it didn't break.

Answer 6

You can do the same thing with a baseball bat. Amazing, huh?

Answer 7

Hooray for blunt force trauma!!!!