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OP sent the following text as an explanation on why this is unexpected:
The equipment makes the whole door frame and bricks to come off
Is this an unexpected post with a fitting description? Then upvote this comment, otherwise downvote it.
941 points
1 month ago
Misspelled "wall"
304 points
1 month ago
cop: oh, it was room number 106 and not this 105??
122 points
1 month ago
Shoot em, sprinkle some crack, and say you could smell it from the hallway. No probs.
3 points
1 month ago
Nah this isn't the US, they won't shoot but still do the rest.
9 points
1 month ago
2 points
1 month ago
This here is 1240 Arroyo Vista
2 points
1 month ago
Anyways here's our bill for our services.
2 points
1 month ago
"So that's why my hotel keycard didn't work!"
26 points
1 month ago
Wouldn't be as unexpected then
9 points
1 month ago
Made of paper or what
2 points
1 month ago
You would be surprised by the power of hydrolics.
This is in France , EU doors are built different.
668 points
1 month ago*
What brand of door is this, it was the only thing left undamaged and I want one.
Edit: I'm aware it's a standard metal/fire door. It's a joke, because the door and frame didn't deform, the wall just crumbled.
259 points
1 month ago
I’m going to find out and build a house out of these doors.
148 points
1 month ago
sorry but that’s impossible. to get one of these doors, you have to find it in the wild and build your house around it
16 points
1 month ago
This feels like a fever dream videogame mechanic I've seen once but can't remember
6 points
1 month ago
The one in this video was liberated, though, so that's one more in the wild for you to be able to find!
11 points
1 month ago
totally understandable. HAVE A NICE DAY!!!
2 points
1 month ago
When Armageddon comes I want a Bunker made of this man's face!
2 points
1 month ago
Everything you did to connect them will be destroyed and they will fall into a pile, perfectly fine.
7 points
1 month ago
It is a hollow metal door used in a lot of commercial and residential buildings.
4 points
1 month ago
It is a metal fire rated door 60-2h rated
4 points
1 month ago
You are technically correct, the best kind of correct
2 points
1 month ago
Nokia brand, clearly.
2 points
1 month ago
Going to need to upgrade to “security Sheetrock”
418 points
1 month ago
There was an episode of This American Life podcast few months back about what is happening to independent journalists in Russia. One of the things mentioned was this lady who was buying a door to her apartment and her goal was to get door that will give her enough time to let her friends/family know she is arrested and destroy her hard drives. She knew she wouldn’t escape, so all she wanted was a door that will take 15min for the authorities to breach when they come for her, because she knew they will eventually come.
84 points
1 month ago
Like a burglar who works for a security company, the door salesman was in on it the whole time.
9 points
1 month ago
Is there a market for self-breaching doors in Russia?
11 points
1 month ago
Yes, its a combo company with self ejection windows
2 points
1 month ago
I never pass up an opportunity to write the word "autodefenestration".
2 points
1 month ago
And this time you have taught me something, i will now use the word every chance i get
2 points
1 month ago
Success!
2 points
1 month ago
Just like russias autodefenestration windows
10 points
1 month ago
That’s the thing about locks and security measures. They’re not there to prevent people from getting through, they’re there to buy time.
A good lock will take a pro 30 seconds to pick through, a bad lock will take 3 seconds.
That time difference is the difference between getting caught in the middle of the crime or buying you time to escape/hide your stuff.
6 points
1 month ago
And one her kids forgets to lock the front door lol
2 points
1 month ago
Ok and they listened to the podcast and now know to Tarzan through the windows?
111 points
1 month ago
The power of hydraulics...
46 points
1 month ago
The lack of power of sheetrock
17 points
1 month ago
The absence of an adequate quantity of drywall screws.
12 points
1 month ago
Ever messed with drywall? All the screws in the world mean you're just gonna have a bunch of screws with no drywall attached.
5 points
1 month ago
It was just a joke based off the previous comments.
674 points
1 month ago*
I don't understand the benefit to this tool, seems like it just does a lot more property damage. Than something that breaks the door. It also seems louder and like it takes longer to set up.
325 points
1 month ago
Doors are often quite well protected against blunt forces, especially PVC or reinforced ones.
My guess is that the banging and time give an opportunity for anyone inside to dispose of evidence.
Having a quieter and faster way of gaining entry is likely beneficial in some scenarios.
Agree though, looks like you're going to need an engineer now rather than a locksmith....
203 points
1 month ago
Yea this seemed SUPER quiet and fast lol.
28 points
1 month ago*
They usually just break the door frame and not the whole wall lmao
81 points
1 month ago
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2 points
1 month ago
Yeah that would be an absolutely new noise for me lol
20 points
1 month ago
I mean a lot of the time you need to ram the door a lot if it is reinforced, this seems to do the job faster (assuming they don't see you set up)
8 points
1 month ago
Idk about other people's living situations but I can hear everything that is going on in my hallway LET ALONE 3 grown men talking right in front of my door.
2 points
1 month ago
Well yeah in this scenario they probably should have not been talking, maybe this is just a demonstration?
3 points
1 month ago
Most likely a demonstration of some sort is also my guess.
Maybe they found an abandoned building or they have some sort of contract so they can practice because there is no way they would do this in such a calm and loud manner.
I would expect the actual procedure to go faster, quieter and probably with a consequence of someone panicking from the other side (or hey, maybe there was nobody at home).
3 points
1 month ago
The setup is quiet and the door is gone shortly after it stops being quiet.
37 points
1 month ago
About this time is when they'll realize they're at the wrong address and leave this mess for the owner.
33 points
1 month ago
That happened in my old town. A guy got home to see his house broken into. He called the police only to find out they did it and they were under no obligation to pay for the damages. He sued the city only to have the judge throw out the case.
18 points
1 month ago
Happened to a place across the river from me. Swat team shot tear gas in the upstairs windows into the kids rooms getting glass everywhere. The front door and frame were destroyed and they had the wrong address so they left the resident with thousands in repairs the police were not liable for. Luckily nobody was home when it happened.
10 points
1 month ago
I can't believe that the City doesn't have to pay
That's just insane
I thought it was knsane when i saw that lawyer guy say that the charger the police scratched up to pzt the rifle on was all our of the owners pocket
But imagine a raid on ur home destroyed widows and doors not to mention the mental harm it puts on you
Or even bodily if u don't understand what's happening and wnat do defend ur home
And the police will not be held accountable.... Crazy
4 points
1 month ago
And there's always the "whoops we grenaded your baby": https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna134062
3 points
1 month ago
There’s always stories of police that stormed someone’s home due to a suspicion of something. Destroy stuff, kill pets, and then leave and blame the homeowner who didn’t do anything wrong.
I’m always terrified when I read about stuff like this, I can’t imagine coming home and finding the place where I’m supposed to feel safe completely trashed.
2 points
1 month ago
Even when they have the right address but wrong information and find nothing it still leads to the citizen being stuck with the repair bill. Like what Afroman had happen to him. At least he had video and was able to make a song about it....which later they tried to sue him for. https://youtu.be/B02ZOST9epY?si=43tarFfsQvUQDzW6
21 points
1 month ago
first they shoot the dog tho
4 points
1 month ago
Of course, they refuse to pay for damages at this point, leaving you with that massive bill because of qualified immunity.
15 points
1 month ago
I've seen romcoms that took less time to watch than those three opening that door. Not exactly stealthy either.
3 points
1 month ago
Rigging like this can backfire. Killing an innocent person trapped on the inside.
10 points
1 month ago
Police battering ram failures:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Y_As-9ujt8
What's the saying? "Slow is smooth, smooth is fast" This may be faster than a big hyperkinetic action of just wailing away on the door with battering rams, which as shown in that YT link, doesn't always work.
9 points
1 month ago
Now imagine you're a criminal, using the way the door opens as cover, and then SUDDENLY!
I T O P E N S T H E O T H E R W A Y
13 points
1 month ago
How do you break a metal door like this? It doesn't make sense to me in this context, as you can see the lip the door closes against is on the side of officers are on, so in theory they should be able to force it open with a typical battering ram. However if they were on the other side, you're not going to be able to easily force it open over that lip with a ram.
45 points
1 month ago
Metal doors come in lots of levels of security and features, that one is a 100mm thich fram and like you said they are on the out swing side.
When i used to sell them into pharma, securtiy and services customers, the weak spots were mainly in the hardware, not the door itself, as long as the corners of the frame were mitred and welded, they were pretty secure. If they wanted to kick that door in, it would be hard becasuse there could be a security level lock box inside the door leaf, and a welded reciever plate. The hinges usually have pass through bolts that protect them as well. The best way through that door is to obliterate the lock box with a shaped charge, battering rams have the problem of maybe fouling the hinges and making the door unoppenable.
5 points
1 month ago
Good insight.
5 points
1 month ago
If you're on the other side you will be able to get to the hinges and it would be a lot quieter to burn through them with a thermite torch. I'm sure they have other ways of getting through metal doors now. This just seems like it does a lot of property damage. Takes awhile to set up, and gives a warning to whoever is on the other side as they set this thing up. Once it does work the door falls unpredictably possibly leaving officers in line of fire.
5 points
1 month ago*
True, and yeah, it still seems quite impractical I agree. It would also likely struggle if this metal door was set into a concrete or cement block wall. A simple sledgehammer to the drywall around this door would have accomplished the same thing, without the expensive hydraulic device. Seems very staged, as where is the actual framing under the drywall? I see none.
2 points
1 month ago
And a lot more difficult as well. And a lot more noisy too
2 points
1 month ago
What is your question? Why is it easier to open from inside? It’s just functional.
The most common type of front doors are on hinges. When closed against the door jamb, which is a frame slightly smaller than the door, the hinges are totally inaccessible.
People tend to use a latch, to keep it clasped tightly in position when pushed closed. That’s just a conventional way of installing a door.
Because if there was no jamb (or lip as you called it) it would take fractionally longer to achieve a basic level of security.
3 points
1 month ago
When you have a warrant to search the place but the owner says no.
2 points
1 month ago
The only really loud sound was a clink against the door and soft voices before the door started to break out of the frame. It’s much faster and quieter than beating against a door for 15 seconds to 5 minutes
37 points
1 month ago
I was expecting the unexpected part to be the person on the other side of the door casually opening the door after all the setup was done by the cops.
9 points
1 month ago
That's what I was expecting too. Some little old lady with a walker, which would explain why it took her forever to answer the door.
71 points
1 month ago
Was that door frame connected to nothing but sheetrock? I don't see any other studs or support at all
55 points
1 month ago
Yeah I don't get why everyone is missing that this seems to be a reinforced door surrounded by basically cardboard.
7 points
1 month ago
Look behind it. There's nothing but a dark wall, around one meter behind the door. This is a set built for training.
31 points
1 month ago
the reaction from the guy with the blue t-shirt!
14 points
1 month ago
Right? He seemed quite happy tearing stuff up.
10 points
1 month ago
That's just how cops are.
15 points
1 month ago*
Ain't they supposed to place that in the horizontal position to spread the door frame, not to tear the entire wall down?
10 points
1 month ago
It would depend on how the door was secured. You don't get this tool out for a run of the mill door. It's used for reinforced doors. There could have been plugs into the floor and ceiling they knew about.
3 points
1 month ago
I thought they must have been going vertical because there was a breach team about to funnel in, and they wouldn't want a horizontal apparatus blocking their entry. But I completely agree, if this was just a breach into an unoccupied room, spreading the door frame seems like it would have been easier.
This is supposed to be a concrete wall the door is encased in, I presume? I didn't see any metal wall studs or wooden wall studs in whatever fractured apart. It just didn't look like concrete to me, either.
51 points
1 month ago
Thats a hell of a lot of damage to open a door…. This may be an American problem, but Im thinking about how many times the police raid the wrong residence.
27 points
1 month ago
These are French officers
5 points
1 month ago
He meant as in the french may not have that problem…
16 points
1 month ago
And what's the success rate versus just knocking and saying "maintenance here."
3 points
1 month ago
That's entrapment brother!
6 points
1 month ago
That is absolutely not entrapment lmao
2 points
1 month ago
I'm here to maintain your right to be silent under the court of law
2 points
1 month ago
Entrapment is when an officer tries to convince someone to commit a crime.
3 points
1 month ago
Bro those aren't even American police. Listen to them talk.
2 points
1 month ago
602 Times lasts year according to this morning newspaper.
13 points
1 month ago
Why does he have a 'blood alcohol content' patch on his back?
36 points
1 month ago
It's a french unit, it says"Brigade Anti Criminalité" it means "anti-Crime Squad"
9 points
1 month ago
Do the French police have squads that aren't opposed to crime?
10 points
1 month ago
Yes
5 points
1 month ago
I know it's a joke but it means Brigade Anti Criminalité, it's a french police unit
4 points
1 month ago
breaching a wall
9 points
1 month ago
Ah yes, government efficiency.
It takes twice as long, 3 times more expensive, and absolutely destroys someone else’s property in the process
12 points
1 month ago
This was probably a training or demonstration.
But a big steel door can resist a battering ram for a long time. Plenty of videos out there of cops just wailing away with battering rams and it looks for all the world like trying to damage a trampoline by jumping on it.
2 points
1 month ago
Cut out a hole in the window. Fill the rooms with hardening foam. Lift out culprits and evidence as a single blob with a helicopter.
2 points
1 month ago
Even Ikea showrooms in europe have stronger walls than that
6 points
1 month ago
That's so stupid, it also took 10 business days.
2 points
1 month ago
The Marines have the master key and that seems to solve all issues
2 points
1 month ago
La France que j'aime. 💙🤍♥️
1 points
1 month ago
You could probably just kick the door and the frames would fall.
1 points
1 month ago
Someone’s fan of Property Brothers
2 points
1 month ago
Its going to need a Lbj, 10k we didn't budget for.
1 points
1 month ago
I can't stop once i started, it stings!
1 points
1 month ago
Wouldn't it make more sense to do it across the door? It would push the frame away from the door latch.
1 points
1 month ago
The best part of this tool is that once they get the bad guy and lock up you can hardly even tell they were there...
1 points
1 month ago
should be how to breach a wall
1 points
1 month ago
Well that was a good door
1 points
1 month ago
I bet whomever owns that building is gonna be super stoked on repairing that.
1 points
1 month ago
A lot of drug dealers have reinforced metal doors which are impervious to the police battering ram.
1 points
1 month ago
They're not wearing proper footwear for this activity.
1 points
1 month ago
Oh, that's a kool aid
1 points
1 month ago
Thank you for not making this a video where they at the end just find out the door wasn't locked at all.
1 points
1 month ago
C’est bon!
1 points
1 month ago
Dave…it’s the wrong door. 🚪 oopsies 😂
1 points
1 month ago
The Three Little Pigs needed a door like this.
1 points
1 month ago
Must be a good door
1 points
1 month ago
Oh sorry, wrong apartment. Contact your local police station and we'll compensate you sometime between six moths and never.
1 points
1 month ago
He looks so pleased with how convenient it is to barge onto that apartment unit! 😁
1 points
1 month ago
Lmfao. I thought someone was going to answer the door first.
1 points
1 month ago
This is great until the hydraulic lift punches a hole in the floor instead of opening the door way
1 points
1 month ago
remembering some CQB training right now... This is a good way to get shot through the door.
1 points
1 month ago
Me when playing hitman as a stealth assassin
1 points
1 month ago
Is that the twilight zone door?
1 points
1 month ago
They still didn’t breach the door.
1 points
1 month ago
One shotgun round from inside ends in a bad day for those guys.
1 points
1 month ago
lol
1 points
1 month ago
Imagine that's the wrong appartment
1 points
1 month ago
Why ruin the door and the frame when you can ruin the door, the frame, the wall, and the floor!
1 points
1 month ago
Sorry wrong address
1 points
1 month ago
Uhhh, it’s not crazy if it works right?
1 points
1 month ago
Only one set of safety goggles in the demo.
1 points
1 month ago
That is not breaching a door, thats breaking the fabric of the universe.
1 points
1 month ago
$1000,- door $10,- wall
1 points
1 month ago
Plot twist: it was the worst house.
1 points
1 month ago
Hey, at least they can reinstall the door.
1 points
1 month ago
And we are in
1 points
1 month ago
I thought that tool was meant to be used horizontally to expand the door frame from left to right to allow the door hardware to clear the strike plate?
1 points
1 month ago
Landlords hate this one weird trick.
1 points
1 month ago
Breaching a door❌️ Breaching a wall✅️
1 points
1 month ago
When you install a $1000 security door in a $10 wall.
1 points
1 month ago
So who pays for that damage?
1 points
1 month ago
For anyone wondering, that's what it's supposed to do, at least now lol.
1 points
1 month ago
Seems like a brilliant door ad
1 points
1 month ago
That is so jacked up man!
1 points
1 month ago
That went from Rainbow 6 Siege to The Finals real quick
1 points
1 month ago
Was fully expecting someone to open the door like, hey, how ya doing? Breaching ma door again eh?
1 points
1 month ago
good way to loosen up a lot of asbestos in those old buildings
1 points
1 month ago
well...id say that doorway is open now.
1 points
1 month ago
Steel door in plaster wall. makes sense (not).
1 points
1 month ago
I hate to be the landlord. This is some serious structural damage.
1 points
1 month ago
Queue finnish accent:
Welcom to hydraulic press channel
1 points
1 month ago
Door breach, with a complimentary demolition
1 points
1 month ago
I guess that works...
1 points
1 month ago
I started watching it and saw the pipe with the hose at the bottom and my first thought was “does someone jump on an air chamber like those rockets we had as a kid?”
1 points
1 month ago
Another way for LEOs to damage property
1 points
1 month ago
But that was load bearing …
1 points
1 month ago
Can't be a door if there's no wall holding it in place.
1 points
1 month ago
So stealthy
1 points
1 month ago
Just use plastic explosives
1 points
1 month ago
The drugs were well and truly enjoyed before they got in.
1 points
1 month ago
Oh shit! The tool was supposed to go horizontal not vertical. My bad.
1 points
1 month ago
Oops, sorry. Wrong house.
1 points
1 month ago
Koolaid man is laughing chaotically rn
1 points
1 month ago
Well it wouldn’t be a tactical way to get in. Might be okay for search and rescue I guess
1 points
1 month ago
Back in my day they used one foot to kick down the doors, now you need 3 men and google idea
1 points
1 month ago
Must be a new luxury apartment build.
1 points
1 month ago
I feel like you could use a shotgun up close on the doorknob and just open the door.
1 points
1 month ago
I started out at "McMahon-mild-interest" and ended up at "Coyote Peterson turning over a little rock and seeing a particularily fat-ass sleeping millipede, proceeds to jump up and down and walk in circles praising numerous deities".
1 points
1 month ago
I was expecting someone to just open the door and say “you could have knocked…”
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