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Do you consider yourself as being "detained" every time you walk through a revolving door?
by skwirl 13y ago
Do you consider yourself as being "detained" every time you walk through a revolving door?
- redidas 13y agoDo revolving doors decide when you get to leave or do you?
- skwirl 13y agoElectronic revolving doors can stop and trap you, yes. For example, if it bumps into someone in another segment, it will stop and then you are trapped. If "big brother" had a camera that identified you in one of these doors and wanted to stop the door, they could. There is really no difference between that and this.
- tedunangst 13y agoI have been "trapped" inside one such door (for like 30 whole seconds) because the person in front of me couldn't decide whether they wanted to push the door or have the door push them. Either way, every time they made contact with the door, it stopped moving for five seconds. It doesn't quite make the "most traumatic experiences of my life" list.
- sesqu 13y agoThere was an incident some time ago when someone got caught in one of those due to a power outage or something. They ended up breaking the glass.
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- teh_klev 13y agoThis isn't a revolving door, this is a round box that keeps you there until the system controlling it allows you to pass. Revolving doors go round and round and don't usually prevent egress. It can't even be compared to a turnstile because they don't seal you in like this appears to do.
- skwirl 13y agoAs I said in my other reply, electronic revolving doors can and do stop and trap you. So it's exactly the same. Understanding that this will get me downvotes, the concern is, quite frankly, stupid. Before you ever get to this door, you've gone through airport security at some other airport. You've already been "detained," identified, and searched. If they wanted to arrest you there, they could (and they do). If they wanted to arrest you when you landed, well, they have the trip manifest for every flight. You can't fly anonymously. If they wanted, they would have a police officer waiting at the gate to arrest you. And they do this. Now, when you're leaving the airport, and they already know who you are, and they have already searched your bags, and they have already had numerous chances to arrest you at both the source, destination, and connecting airports, suddenly, a one way door that temporarily encloses you (like a revolving door, or an elevator, or the multiple sets of automatic doors leading into a supermarket) is "detainment" and "ripe for abuse" and an "erosion of the constitution." What? Please. This kind of nonsense is embarrassing.