[ SECRET POST #4773 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4773 ⌋

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Comments

[rosehiptea]

I've always wondered if it's as easy as they make it look.

[(Anonymous)]

No, it's not. The doors on set are designed to be kicked in, so they don't stick, wind up sturdier than expected, or break in inconvenient/dangerous ways.

[rosehiptea]

I had a feeling that was the case.

[ill_omened]

As someone who's kicked in a few doors in the course of my career.

Any external door you're going to struggle with, to being downright impossible depending age, build specifications etc.

Pretty much any internal door on anything built in the last few decades is for privacy solely, and a good donkey kick with a bit of weight is going to go straight through.

[kaijinscendre]

But! If someone wanted to do this, they should befriend someone who works in a construction company or who is renovating their house. You get one of those cheaper inner doors that are essentially veneer? You can kick one of those in easy. Just aim for the lock. I've done it before at a friend's house.

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ayrt

You can, but that's actually where the risk of inconvenient/dangerous breakage comes in. You don't want to put your foot through a cheap door, you can potentially slice the hell out of your leg.

[kaijinscendre]

Worth it to kick a door in once in your life.

[(Anonymous)]

Providing you don't get an artery.

[kaijinscendre]

With the doors I am thinking of, that would not happen. Really, have you not seen those super cheap doors that are scary to even lean on?

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ayrt

If that's what floats your boat. I've hurt myself doing enough stupid shit that I can't really argue too hard.

Would advise OP to wear some good, sturdy boots if they decide to go this route. Less risk of injury, either from the door breaking or from hitting it at a bad angle.

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like a lot of the original sources for the door-kicking-down meme were probably taking place in shitty tenement apartments where I imagine it would be relatively easy.

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

It's still a lot harder than it looks on tv, unless the door's rotted out (and then it's as likely to break as it is to open, and you'll either end up flat on your ass or with some nasty lacerations).

Really, the trope exists because it looks dramatic and works with the cowboy cop archetype that's popular in police-focused media, and it's fairly easy to set up as a stunt.

[tabaqui]

The front-facing door-kick doesn't really work (except on maybe super-cheap doors). If it's something you *have* to do, they recommend you turn around and kick backward.

Or use a ram. 'Cause it's really difficult.

[(Anonymous)]

At least they don't show people trying to break doors with their shoulders that much anymore. That's a good way to dislocate or break your bones.

[(Anonymous)]

Howard once tried to break a door open in an episode of The Big Bang Theory. He dislocated his shoulder instead.

[(Anonymous)]

IRL I believe police use a kind of battering ram and don't actually try to kick down doors in most situations.

[(Anonymous)]

I was doing emergency rescue training once (not a professional, just a trained volunteer), and we were doing it in the same "scenario village" fake city blocks that the local police train in. And none of the doors were supposed to be locked, but one of them was by accident, and it was the one they used to train SWAT units on opening a hardened door that calls for a serious ram. So this door was weirdly dented, and would NOT open, and some poor volunteer actor was on the other side of it crying for help.

So we damn well got the window open and got them out that way.

[(Anonymous)]

Depends on the door. Cheap shitty hollow doors? Hard but not too hard. Good solid oak doors? Laugh at your fuckin' foot.