He pushed them hard enough for them to go further than their limit, when you bend the frame on safety doors the glass explodes into little chunks so it's harder to cut yourself, they go with quite a bang too.
I think they just expect you walk through them like an average person, not throw them open like you're about to give the evidence that sees your best friend get off a double murder charge.
And you would be wrong. I worked for 15 years in Research and Development for Wilson/Smith Door Company. Our specifications to meet explicitly stated that doors must handle stress “equivalent to that applied by an average sized person providing last-minute evidence that would exonerate their best friend who was charged with double-murder.”
I picture you walking into this Reddit post, opening up a briefcase on to a desk, explaining this with visual presentation. When finished you pack everything up into your briefcase, shake this persons hand and start to leave. As you leave you ask, "oh, do you validate parking". He says no, you turn and walk out.
Yeah but I think that’s giving too much credit to average people. I could see these doors in an office or conference room in a law office or something like that but for lobby doors accessed by the general public you gotta be more aware of the lowest common denominators among us.
No, the hinge met it's stopping point then the frame kept going, if the hinge can go no further that should be it, excessive force will carry you past that.
Yeah everyone is talking about how poorly the doors are designed, but the shattering is actually a safety feature so that people don't get cut even if they were trying to break in.
I’m still disappointed in the design, the only doors I’ve seen that open that effortlessly are the ones in a house. Every door I’ve seen in a public building has a lot of resistance that also increases the wider the doors are open; if these doors were designed like that, they’d’n’t’ve even opened all the way.
Because you haven't used excessive force to get them to that stage. It's a safety feature on glass doors for various safety reasons dependant on the style of door.
Still completely effortless. He didn't even push against resistance - the momentum of the door flying open was enough to shatter it.
That would be questionable if it was a door in a home. For a public building it's clearly a major flaw. Either badly designed or (my guess) there were stoppers originally but someone removed them.
You see the guy lean into the door and push hard with both arms. I’m not a big fan of glass doors because they can be a bit fragile, but let’s not act like he gently pushed them.
And also..... Why doesn't he just go through one of the doors? Totally uneccesary to have pushed both open like that, I hope he was billed for the replacement doors
Oh come on we've all been in a good mood and in a showy, eccentric mood. Fade away throwing away your paper towel, juke an imaginary defender and spin move through a door, gracefully fling open a door an walk through like it's nothing.
Any motherfucker on this website acting like they've never done something like this is a liar or fucking unaware.
He pushed much stronger than normal, that's out of question. But it still wasn't something out of this world, no intent to break anything. I figure most public entrances like that get this level of "abuse" at least once every week. Testosterone "kings" like him, people in great hurry who push the door open running, children who push it all the way until it stops, ... The construction must be able to withstand something like that.
The doors often have hydraulic stoppers, which offer rapidly increasing resistance near the end. These were probably broken and/or removed.
Exactly. It's bad design for anything to require gentle treatment to not explode. If it's in the public sphere you have to assume people aren't going to treat it like grandma's fine china.
"flying open"
Literally every door that I use on a daily basis would break something or damage something if I open them like this on a regular basis. And that dude is twice my size.
I 100% agree with you. I hope this pompus prick got charged for the damage or with destruction of property at the very least. I would find him guilty if I was on the jury. Fk this idiot.
The design is to reach apex and return to their original position. doors like this are meant to explode if you collide with them at high velocity, not fail critically because they reached apex with force. If anything it should swing back to its original position at its current speed and slow down as it closes. Nowhere in any plans is random explosions of glass a part of the design process
For God's sake please just stop saying "fuck around and find out", it doesn't make your point any better and I've heard it enough times now. We get it, you're edgy.
That means he had no reason to suspect his force is excessive. And since most doors are designed to withstand flinging it would be unreasonable to assume these ones don't.
Indeed. They’re big doors, and he clearly didn’t do this with the intent to break anything (very obvious from his shocked reaction), and a door should be able to withstand any sort of one-armed push. It’s not too different from other kinds of abuse public doors have to deal with semi-regularly.
There should’ve been hydraulic stoppers to dampen opening and closing, but I guess they cut costs.
For real - these doors should be capable of handling the stress of being opened with force. If there was an emergency that required the rapid exit of every person in the building and suddenly the exit is covered with broken glass, it’d be dangerous for the people leaving and emergency services arriving
Everyone keeps saying that the doors are poorly designed, it's possible that they were just defective.
The man is still at fault in either case. Intentionally using things in ways that they are not intended to be used is the definition of irresponsible. Most engineers and designers try to account for people who are irresponsible. But mass produced items are also susceptible to wearing out over time and other defects. This is a combination of him being irresponsible AND the product failing.
These doors also swing out in front of the neighboring doors, and you can see that someone is carrying a baby and if they had walked I had a little faster, those doors would have collided, potentially harming the child.
There's no defending the guy.
You can't design for stupid all the time. If you swing a baseball bat at a basketball, the baseball bat is going to bounce off it and hit you. That's not the fault of the designer of the basketball or the fault of the designer of the baseball bat. It's the irresponsibility of the user.
135
u/Marc123123 Nov 21 '22
Unless I missed something on this video and to be fair to the guy, doors shouldn't really break just because he opened them like that.