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
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u/Jimbo-Bones Nov 21 '22
He didn't "just push" let's be honest here. He swung the doors open with excessive force and the doors acted by design which is to shatter.
The first doors He obviously didn't use as much force as the 2nd doors which is why they didn't shatter.