When two people meet on the opposite of a door at the same time disaster can strike.
Incidents occur where a person is hurt or injured when a door unexpectedly flies open at them
as if from nowhere
right before they go to grab the knob – annually the numbers reach nearly into the mid-fifties.
Doorway situations like this often result in pain.
Confusion.
Situations requiring insincere apologies.
Disability.
Even embarrassment.
Hands become bruised, shoes get scuffed, toes get hurt, and occasionally foreheads are bumped. When you consider that accidents such as these sometimes even may even occur multiple times in one day, you’ll soon realize that entire lives can be changed just that quick.
A split-second moment of truth, or moment of torture?
This danger threatens all of us any time we enter or leave a room, whether it be at home, at work, or an investment property you’re scoping out because you’d like to build some equity leasing it to a bank or insurance company.
What tools do we have in 2011 to protect us from this situation that so often ends in tragedy?
The police can’t seem to show up until it’s too late. (You’ve seen the TV)
Our soldiers are busy fighting wars and are too sleepy to take on any more missions. They need rest and generous nutrients, not a foe wicked beyond most civil folk’s imaginations.
Are you ready to deal with this portal of certain risk every day for the rest of your life?
I’m not.
There are windows that can be put in some doors to show you whether or not someone is on the other side, but is that always going to be enough warning?
Scientists in Germany have developed countless devices that consist of sirens, closed-circuit cameras and lasers that alerts door users to another person’s presence on the other side, but these are often expensive and produce tremendous amounts of heat and gamma radiation to those in the building.
How many knuckles
and knees
and lives
might be saved by protecting America against their #1 threat to security and prosperity?
This doesn’t always have to be the scene of a crime.
And we can stop it now.
But we have to act fast.
Lawyers representing the door lobby are already rushing to Washington to silent our votes with their “hinge safety” rhetoric and fat cat money. They’ve even reached the growing Latino constituency and started a grass roots organization mobilizing the concerns of Spanish-speaking citizens from Buckley, Oregon to Winona, Arkansas. “Los Puertos” have been hugely successful in a short period of time and their influence will continue to grow until our very identity as Americans is no more than that of another Push/Pull society. A people crippled by the growing cost of healthcare and skyrocketing worker’s compensation payouts.
How many of these share a similar root cause – doorway injuries.
We – must – strike – now.
Those of the anti-concern are desensitizing our children and mocking the severity of a feasible 9/11 on hinges.
And it’s working.
We have to endure these portals to hell – with no choice whatsoever and no end in sight, just so the politicians and CEO’s can continue making millions off the sale of doors, door knobs, knockers, and an ever-growing assortment of accessories and seasonal decorations .
Do you know hundreds of years ago people were forced to use doors like these?
In the early ages people risked the bruising of life and limb when coming in, and going out, of churches, buildings, structures, and brothels.
Just because they can’t whip you at work anymore doesn’t mean we’ve escaped the olden days.
This is not from a movie. This isn’t a figment of a bad dream about Nazi enslavement illusory manifested in greyscale before you. This is the bathroom at my office. It has a hairpin trigger on the knob that allows it to be opened with the force of a super atomic Einsteinian war bomb.
This is why I speak out to you now.
Are we ready though?? Are we fed up and angry enough to do something about this?
Ladies and gentleman, children, and intelligent door-using animals…
more than anytime in the history of man we now have the tremendous need to come together and fight for change. If all of these deadly hinge-based entryways, “swingers”, were to be replaced by sliding doors we could eliminate Simultaneous Multi-Human Door Injuries Related to Temporary Pain or Injury (commonly, Door Bump) in a few short years.
Sure there may be some accidents that occur during misuse or Ace Ventura balcony scene reenactments…
but just picture approaching a door and as you reach forward instead of searching for a confusing, germ infested knob (ancient technology really). You instead find a small circular divot that allows you to whisk the panel sideways into the wall, safely removing the barrier that once stood in the way between you and your future. Metaphorically and literally.
The Chinese style of sliding door has had Door Bump (or 門撞 in the traditional tongue) extinctionized for practically 150 years.
How are the Chinese doing today??
Think about that.
Besides, how much more often would movies have those scenes with a sexy Asian alluringly undressing behind the closed sliding door, the simple silhouette of which revealing more than she probably meant to do. Wouldn’t that be kinda sweet?
If you’re ready to DO THIS…!
If you’re ready to TAKE A STAND and say ENOUGH…!
If you’re ready to catch a beaming purple heart in your hand, you can learn more about the cause at stopitnow.org (previously http://www.come on dude quit it.com)
Gwyneth Paltrow’s all about it. And her support in getting this cause off the ground has been substantial. She demanded that national attention be given to the safety of our future children.
Gwyneth, naturally as an actress, feels.
It doesn’t hurt that she’s an estimated 7% Italian either.
Her heart goes deep.
We had the technology in the 70’s, but was shut down by the American Doorway Concern who bought the designs and stopped production immediately.
All we got in the end was a folding version that bastardized the efforts of the original architects.
The technology of which later revolutionized the board rooms of the countless offices subscribing to the Door lobby and their old paradigm.
The sliding version is incomparably better and even presents a certain mystery in its presence.
(Where do they all GO??)
Stylish and sexy…
sliding doors have a solution for everyone.
These examples of modern day science solve a complex, and often painful, problem. Yet they are increasingly simple to install.
You just do that.
It’s easy.
Does this look like a door you want to walk through?
Jimmy Peterson didn’t think much of it one cold October night.
(Image reproduced with the written consent of the NYPD and the general awareness of the Patterson family.)
Help us stop this abuse occurring every day.
In 2012, it’s going to be a sliding door victory.
Door Bump can be defeated.
“SAFE DOORS NOW”
(cuz what’re we gonna do? go over the fence?)
*Check out stopitnow.org – it’s a good cause.
