December 11, 2007
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Bar the Doors
I think it is time we start barring doors. In
old medieval castles, doors would be locked by putting a big log horizontally
behind a door so that no intruders could come in and, y'know, invade and stuff.
This kind of lock had some serious defensive capabilities. I daresay that even
the sturdiest of credit cards could not break through one of those logs.
Nowadays, all we have that's comparable are deadbolts. These weak little
excuses for locks could easily be broken by marauding armies, as evident by the
number of one-man battering rams used by the police force. Don't get me started
on those lame chains either. It's entirely possible to reach one's arm into the
door and undo one of those things. Trust me, I know. The downside with the
"log lock" is that it is one-sided. You can only use it when you are
inside your house. It would just be silly to put the log up on the outside of
your house. Also, your door needs to be a push door (from the outside) to be at
all effective, unless the marauding armies have bad backs. Other than that,
using a thick log is quite effective. I would say that the logs should be
replaced with thick metal I‑beams, but I probably would not want to pick one of
those up. Though, a nice cast iron beam would probably be immune to some nut
with an ax (with a bad back, of course). I guess the marauding armies will have
to resort to some crude way of entering your dwelling, like through a window or
chimney.
Comments (4)
Oddly, that is an interesting idea. It's very true that a person would have a difficult time picking a log.
~ Peace and Love
The problem with this is people like me. You know the idoit that knocks them selfs out of there house once a week? I like those crappy locks because if need be i can some how outsmart them and get inside without having to find someone with a spare key, but if there were a large wooden log then i would be fucked. Plus i am pretty sure that shit could catch on fire, and well i would probiliy end up doing just that starting a fire and then the log would catch and i would be stuck in my house.
The back door of the pharmacy I used to work at had a barred door.
Yeah, I must admit it's a good idea. I have thought about it before and it wouldn't really work because in an event of a fire, if you had a massive door and a massive bolt to go with it, you'd be weak from inhaling all the fumes anyway and then you have to fight "the bolt" and so it's not really practical...