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Favorite Comment: Fixer Thomas Westgard says, “What you do is, you go down to the fire inspector’s office with this photo and you tell them you were fine with it until the boss made you bring your kids to work in the factory.”
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Sadly, this is not uncommon and can be deadly. Ask the folks who used to work in some of the chicken processing plants in North Carolina. Fires started and workers streamed towards the emergency exit doors, only to find them chained shut. Dozens died.
But outside of that, it certainly is ironic that it is locked!
Ooh, always nice to end a really tragic story with our good buddy, irony! I know newscasters like to end the show with a good chuckle…
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I remember that. I grew up in nearby Fayetteville.
Here in San Antonio, that one lock would get your company closed until it was removed, and a rather hefty fine in the process. Too many people have been killed by idiots with locks.
What you do is, you go down to the fire inspector’s office with this photo and you tell them you were fine with it until the boss made you bring your kids to work in the factory.
Comment of ownage.
Just put a sign on the door saying “THIS IS NOT A DOOR”. Problem solved.
Does that mean *gulp* the door is a lie?
No, but apparently fire inspections are.
Better take down that exit sign too, then.
What is this, a CARTOON? You can’t just paint a door onto the wall. That doesn’t work here.
a dozen panicked people would blow right through that locked door. mass frenzy knows no limits.
looks like someone Finley locked that damned Narnia door ……………. NokNokNok now who is that? well were is that key….. What! FIRE RAN!
In case of fire, find the wizard and ask him to unlock the doors. Just don’t look behind the curtain while you do so.
Emergency safety talk at the nursing home: “In case of fire, just grab the nearest chair and use it to break the lock and/or hasp. What’s that, you say? Well, in that case, lady, put your walker down first. Just because you’re old doesn’t mean you’re wise, I guess. Don’t make this into something harder than it is. Jeez.”
Hate to be the grinch, but that’s no kludge, it’s the textbook cover for human stupidity 101
And as if a padlock was not enough, they leave a couple of chairs in the way to slow down the exit procedure even more…
Maybe maybe the arrow in lighted sign means there’s a Real door further to our left?
The flip side is the “Emergency Exit Only” sign over a door that’s partly open, or one that is frequently opened and shut, with no visible emergency involved. Makes a person distrust signage-posters.
TYPICAL NIGHT-CLUB MOVE, DAMN THEM. BASTARDS… THIS IS WHY PEOPLE DIE IN FIRES @ NIGHT-CLUBS, BECAUSE THE BASTARDS ARE AFRAID OF LOOSING A COVER CHARGE !!! The exits are locked, the people are overcome by smoke or crushed to death. B A S T A R D S !!!
I CAN’T HEAR YOU! I WISH THEY’D TURN THIS MUSIC DOWN! CAN YOU SHOUT LOUDER? DID YOU JUST ASK ME TO DANCE?
Someone must have transmitted this picture from their cell phone from inside the Hotel California. It is true that they really won’t let you leave! The person taking the picture has already incapacitated the guard who normally sits in that chair. Unfortunately, he or she must not be able to get past the locked door. Someone…please…help!!!
This is a bar! The owner has come up with a new way of getting the business rolling every month. A visitor will be given the code to the padlock when entering the bar. What we can’t see here on the photo is the sign at the bottom of the door:
“People who drank to little beer to still remember the code will be shoot. Bolt cutters will be shoot twice.”
see Triangle shirtwaist fire
That is either someone’s walker, or the ladder to a pool in the foreground (lower left). Let’s say it’s a pool, in which case, *obviously* when there’s a fire, everyone is expected to stay and help put out the flames.
But you do have a walker, too, and a lung condition that doesn’t do so well in smoke-filled areas? Then you’re the first cannonball!
Mr. O.C.D. couldn’t do anything until the door matched the ambience of the room.
In the urban wilderness, the fire exit’s only defense from it’s predators is the ability to camoflage and blend in with it’s surroundings.
Not a kludge, just hideously illegal.
Someone call the fire marshal on the owner. See how he likes being fined for padlocking a fire exit.
Let’s not all get our panties in a wind. Maybe the door is padlocked to protect the occupants from unknowingly walking outside into a hoard of hungry zombies. Or a pack of ravenous velociraptors. Or a pit full of quicksand. Or a wormhole to another galaxy. Or a big pile of dog doo.
Easy fix: Take down the exit sign.
Now everyone is happy.
hm, looks like a real life version of an “escape the room” game. to escape you have to click around hoping that you can kludge something to open the door.
i bet someone put a lot of stuff that together makes a macgyver style bomb to blow the lock off in the vicinity of the door so that you have to frantically search for them whilst the fire is spreading.
If you ever see this from the inside of the building, don’t waste your breath – Management won’t correct it just because you asked nicely, you are a nobody who is obviously trying to sneak your friends in…
When they tell you to FOAD, there is only one solution: Dial 911.
Been there, called that, got a Second Alarm response Code 3, heavy on the old motorized “growlers” and with lots of extra air-horn. (They don’t carry cowbells, but they have their own ways to let you ‘hear the noise!’)
Watched the Fire Captain tell the theater manager he has two options: Unchain all the exit doors, or stop the show and clear the building. NOW. Refunds are the manager’s problem.
thats a cruel joke
1) As someone else said there could be a real exit farther to the left out of the shot. Look at how it doesn’t even look like a door.
2) It could be that the lock is used only when the space is unoccupied. For example, many movie theatres have ample exits from each auditorium with panic bar type latches and when they close up for the night they chain/padlock them because that type of latch doesn’t have a deadbolt. It’s not a safety hazard because the doors are unchained before opening for business the next day. That could be the case here although the more I look at it option 1 seems more likely.
That’s got to be one of those Casinos hooked up with a $30 a day vacation package. Meals & gambling are extra, but they lock you in the Casino.
Wow, as a Fire Marshall, this violates so many codes. IF the door is no longer being used as an Exit, it must be labeled, NOT AN EXIT, and the Exit sign removed. Nor may the door be painted to “blend in” with the wall.
I agree, the owner needs to be “informed” of the violation. But this happens everyday. They take the locks off when they see us coming, then put them back on when we leave. According to them, “It’s only locked after hours, and never when the building is occupied…”