I found a video of a hotel door lock installation.  Hotel doors feel massive because they are built to resist fire which has been the #1 killer of guests, but pay attention to the first minute or so of the video and notice how much of the door is mortised out to make space for the lock. And no, the lock screws do not add strength back, they just secure the lock in place.

You may have seen me say here that a good shove is enough to crack a door. I speak from position of experience as once I was helping a maintenance engineer with a door that had a lock which simply collapsed leaving the guests locked inside.  We were able to get the guests out via the connecting door to the next room, but we still had to deal with the dead lock. At one time, I was asked to give the door a good push from the outside… and I did. Nothing major, I did not take a couple of steps back or anything, I just laid my shoulder against the door and gave a big push.

I heard a “crack” and stepped back.  The wood around the lock had failed and I had shoved the door is about 2 inches from the frame. I stopped in horror and figured my next paycheck was going to be light by a lot.  Long story short, a new door was installed, insurance took care of the expense and I gain a new level of distrust for the sturdiness of hotel doors.

If I stay in a hotel, I will place the spare chair, my luggage and whatever else can be easily moved against the door when I go to sleep. I may not stop a dedicated attacker, but it will make noise and give me time to get my hands on something that will change the mind of an invader.

Now you know. Travel safe!

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Friday rejected a last-ditch effort by gun control groups to block the Trump administration from allowing the public to download blueprints for 3-D printable guns, declining to intervene just days before the designs are expected to go online.
U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman in Austin, Texas, denied the request for an order by the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, Everytown for Gun Safety and the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence at a hearing, saying he would state the reasons for his decision in a written order to follow.

U.S. judge denies gun control groups’ attempt to block 3-D gun blueprints.

Either the deal made with State is legally bulletproof or the Opposition bungled their petition or both. Consider that the judge was a twice Obama appointee, so you know he is not the most conservative guy around.  And I have no doubt that Brady, Everytown and Giffords went judge shopping for this one.

As I mentioned before, I worked Hotel Security some years back and I have always have a soft spot for the security of people traveling. Hotel doors look and feel strong, but they are far from that as one hard push can break them open easily.

I cannot make claims about the quality of this particular device, but by my experience the principle is very sound:

It is portable and sold for under $30, so if it is strong enough, it is cheap security for when you travel.

[INSANE VIDEO]: Fight breaks out at Donald Trump’s star on Hollywood Boulevard. All because @ElijahSchaffer was wearing a Trump jersey and USA hat.

Be safe out there. The intolerance is real! pic.twitter.com/eGk6pYKiti

— Austen Fletcher (@fleccas) July 27, 2018

And the YouTube version for those Tweet-Impaired

Imagine if we were to start torching any car we saw with a Obama or Hillary sticker. Or bash the face of anybody wearing a Che t-shirt?

Somebody will get shot before the end of the year because of this shit. And I hope people get together and make Maxine Waters’ life miserable enough she has to quit congress and seek refuge in Venezuela.

San Francisco has figured out a way to solve all of its major social problems: the rampant homelessness, human shit everywhere, prohibitively expensive housing, car break-ins, etc.

I mean, just yesterday I saw the news that a “San Francisco train conductor reportedly warns riders to watch ‘for needles’ amid ‘needle litter’ epidemic.”

Conductors there reportedly have taken to the trains’ PA systems to warn riders about hypodermic needles being left on seats by transient drug users as San Francisco fights an uphill battle to clean up thousands of syringes discarded each month all over the city.

This was in response to an incident that happened in May, “BART passenger says she sat on discarded hypodermic needle.”  I can’t imagine how horrible that is.  You get on the train to commute to work and come home with HIV or Hep C.

Well, San Francisco has finally done something to fix this.

Eat ‘lunch with the rest of us.’ San Francisco weighs ban on employee cafeterias

A proposal introduced Tuesday to ban employee cafeterias in future San Francisco office buildings represents more than an effort to boost the city’s restaurant scene, backers say.

“People will have to go out and (eat) lunch with the rest of us,” Aaron Peskin, a San Francisco supervisor who co-sponsored the proposal, told The San Francisco Examiner.

“This is also about a cultural shift,” Supervisor Ahsha Safai, who proposed the ban, told The San Francisco Chronicle. “We don’t want employees biking or driving into their office, staying there all day long and going home. This is about getting people out of their office, interacting with the community and adding to the vibrancy of the community.”

I can understand why people who work in San Francisco offices don’t want to leave their buildings for lunch.

Would you want to have to step over piles of shit and overdosed homeless people, risking exposure to HIV and Hepatitis, just to pay unreasonable high prices for a sandwich and not even be allowed to have a straw?

Yeah… me neither.

That’s going to be the law in San Francisco, because it will solve all their other problems.

Personally, there is one law I want to see passed.

Elected members of the San Francisco city goverment must spend one day per week personally checking for needles on San Francisco public transportation seats with their own asses. 

That might actually accomplish something.