I comment on door design because well it’s not as self-explanatory as the links. I have no question about the links, eh.

On a meta-commenting note, I find it entertaining that a number of people find the actual links so ordinary as to be passed over for comment in favor of main door design.

My preference would be to find out if I wanted to let the person in beforehand, anyway; I am not in the habit of just randomly yanking the door open. Hell, it could be the police.

Got my door cracked open with a crowbar while I was standing at the top of the stairs once. It made an impression.

* Is that a word?

I’m referring to the situation where the owner is talking to someone on the doorstep who then tries to push in through the unlocked door. It’s much easier in such situations to stop them if the door opens in, where you can simply block it with your full body then if it open out where you have to engage in a tug of war which they start out winning.

I’m not seeing it. If the door opens in, the crowbar goes between the door and the jamb. If the door opens out, the crowbar goes…where?

If you’re talking about a single person standing outside the door, pulling on the doorknob seems to inherently allow less body mass to be used – they’d be just yanking with their arm instead of pushing with shoulder or kicking with foot.

Or was this snark & I missed it? Sorry, not familiar with all internet traditions.

As far as the videotaping: I think that if these laws are proposed folks should agitate for police on the job being specifically excluded from any such law; and anyone who objects to such an exclusion should be asked *exactly why.* Surely public servants are public, at least, even if they’re not servants any more, so the only possible reason is to prevent the production of evidence of malfeasance.

Main doors open in, storm/screen doors open out.

Wow. Screw Audi.

They have crystal balls.

#29 Joe

How’s this for freedom, cops will arrest you in Massachusetts if you video tape the police. Apparently you need consent. Which means all the tourists in Boston in the summer…they can be arrested for video taping.

How’s them apples?

I just looked into my crystal ball and can say with some certainty that the number of states that require two-party consent will grow in the coming years.

How’s them apples?

http://www.greencarmagazine.net/2010/02/green-police-state-super-bowl-ad-by-audi-touts-tdi-clean-diesel-technology/

Small kids are presumably not going to pay much attention to the tobacco displays in any case, and as InMD pointed out, there are already rules in place for anyone selling tobacco products to them.

And, really, high school is not so far behind me that I don’t remember all the 14- to 17-year olds bravely hacking as they sucked on their cancer sticks because it was just so cool. Somehow I don’t see candy flavoured dissolved tobacco as a viable replacement for that public display.