"Nick Ruchalski" > wrote in message
...
> As I was flushing a sanitized carboy down in my basement in prep for a
> rack it slipped a bit. The concrete floor's eyes widened, but I
> latched on tightly and finished the draining. It got me to thinking
> what would happen if I dropped it.
>
> Do they shatter into a million pieces, split into a few sections, or
> just bounce?

"Bounce"? Yeah, right. In your _dreams_!
(I'm assuming a glass carboy. The plastic ones do bounce.)

Carboys are not tempered glass, so they don't shatter into a million pieces.
They break into a number of large pieces and lots of small pieces - all of
which are razor sharp and guaranteed to cut you if you try to clean them up
by hand.

Tom S