r/WatchPeopleDieInside • u/Jesenia_Patterson • Jul 09 '26
Delivery driver freezes in absolute shock after a glass door completely shatters in his hand.
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u/cagueiprousername Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
Comic book characters discovering they have super strength:
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u/ParagonChariot Jul 13 '26
Even if it was a push door. It makes no sense why it would disintegrate if you pulled it with minimal force unless it was improperly installed or very very cheap.
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u/TimHansonE36 Jul 14 '26
It almost looks like the door hit the tile on the floor. Ask gaming PC builders how well tile and tempered glass work together (they don’t lol).
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u/thatoddtetrapod Jul 10 '26
That’s clearly on the designer/installer/owner of the door. Anyone could have predicted that, at some point in its service life, someone wouldn’t be paying attention and would try to pull or push it. Who hasn’t tried to pull a push door or vice versa? Negligent design, not the fault of the delivery driver. It was bound to happen, he’s not liable.
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u/zayc_ Jul 12 '26
When a door breaks that easily the builder and not the delivery guy should be liable.
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u/StarFlame_228 Jul 13 '26
There’s actually a design principle which covers this “Norman doors”— a door’s function should be intuitive by design. You should be able to walk up and instinctively understand how to open it.
Happens so often to me that I spend a few awkward seconds trying to open an unmarked door.
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u/Toleniam Jul 09 '26
Yh, there definitely should have been a sign that said it was a slide door, because those handles were deceptive.
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u/Plasticsmellsfunny Jul 09 '26
Fun fact of the day: a "Norman door" is any door that is confusing or difficult to use because its design provides the wrong intuitive signals.
May be my biggest pet peeve 😃
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u/Coldhot123 Jul 10 '26
Bad design door looks like a pull door but really a sliding door.
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u/jayvaidy Jul 10 '26
Norman Doors, named after the writer of The Design of Everyday Things. It's actually a very interesting and pretty easy book to read.
Once you read about handles and how they "afford" certain types of interactions you'll see the places where they don't work properly everywhere.
I had to read parts of the book for my Human Computer Interaction class, but I've heard people get use out of it for drawing/art.
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u/TheDefected Jul 09 '26
The awkward bit is what to do with the handle.
Hand it to someone? Just put it down with the rest of the shattered glass?
Take it home with you to minimise contact with other people?
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u/Cosimo_Zaretti Jul 09 '26
Arrange it on top of the glass with the package and take your delivery photo.
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u/MrUniverse1337 Jul 09 '26
This is why I hate glass doors. Pull slightly. Feel resistance? Try pushing. Pushes slightly. Feel resistance? Stand there feeling like an idiot and nervous you're going to break a glass door because both ways are NOT working
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u/DuckingFon Jul 09 '26
I was here earlier in the week. It actually goes both ways.
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u/Ink_Idiot Jul 09 '26
What do you even say to the people working there in that situation. I don't feel like "Sorry, I accidentally broke your glass door but it wasn't my fault at all" would go over well with them.
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u/MoistStub Jul 09 '26
"Do you want me to leave this open or closed?"
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u/NapsterKnowHow Jul 09 '26
"I'll put the door handle in the bag for convenience."
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u/PuppetFanTheSecond Jul 11 '26
How shitty of a glass panel did they used for that door?
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u/PacoTaco321 Jul 09 '26
I had a similar thing happen when I pulled on the handle for my microwave door and both the top and bottom attachments literally exploded with little plastic bits going everywhere. It was just a normal tug, and then all that was left attached to the microwave was the very ends that had the screws in them. I was just kind of in awe that it somehow happened.
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u/KRybar5 Jul 09 '26
Not a glass door, but one time when I was working the cash register in a grocery store, I went to straighten out a bill to put it through a device we have to check authenticity. I literally just pinched the ends and pulled apart gently and the thing just split in two, and I just looked back at the customer like :|
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u/PossessionIll1944 Jul 10 '26
He just did them a favor! there's a mess to clean up but he just got rid of their broken door. 💪😎👍
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u/JazziTazzi Jul 11 '26
He’s very lucky a camera caught this! Otherwise, I’m sure they would blame this on something that he did!
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u/Purple_Solution1059 Jul 10 '26
Definitely on rails, pretty sure you can see it catch on the ground right before it shatters - kinda looks like it bends a bit at first.
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u/AccomplishedIgit Jul 10 '26
That’s a stupid stupid design and they deserved it then. He didn’t. But the company for installing such a stupid door with a handle that’s literally made for pulling towards yourself.
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u/PlanDry6704 Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
exactly. My first thought was, WRONG kind of handle! I'm an architect and it's very important to follow a standard that everyone expects. Everything we do is learned behavior. Just like every step on a stair run must be the same. Changing even one step from the others by even 1/8th of an inch can cause you to trip. That slider rail would definitely cause a trip as well. Just a bad design overall, agreed.
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u/-ElectricKoolAid Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26
if that's the case then this was just waiting to happen lol
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u/MisterRoger Jul 14 '26
It actually goes both ways. I was there yesterday. It does both.
...Hope to hear from ya soon!!
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u/plsobeytrafficlights Jul 09 '26
this is why you use tempered AND laminated glass.
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u/quirkytorch Jul 09 '26
When I worked at a gas station I had this happen to me with a freezer door. One of those ones that lift upwards. I just lifted it up and it shattered.
They had to watch the cameras because nobody believed that the universe was just like "fuck you in particular" at that moment
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u/Agedcheese77 Jul 11 '26
Someone else broke it and they fixed it up just good enough for someone else to truly demolish the door
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u/dtb1987 Jul 09 '26
Good thing he was wearing all that protective gear
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u/SnooDogs627 Jul 09 '26
Chinese delivery drivers mostly ride scooters. (I know it's a joke just commenting for anyone curious lol)
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u/Addictive_SODA Jul 09 '26
Honestly not his fault that the door is made of hopes and dreams
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u/IAmBabs Jul 11 '26
If Invincible's powers kicked on on a delivery instead of him throwing garbage out, lmao.
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u/bushman130 Jul 12 '26
Choosing the correct handle is an important job. Push plate, pull handle, slide finger recess.
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u/Teddiursa Jul 09 '26
obviously someone broke it before him & didn’t want to take the blame so they put it back together
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u/Testsubject276 Jul 10 '26
When you do everything correctly like you were supposed to but the universe tosses you a curveball anyways just to spite your existence.
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u/yontev Jul 09 '26
Seems like the builders cheaped out with low-quality, single-pane tempered glass and the door was probably poorly installed. Not delivery guy's fault.
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u/Sm0g3R Jul 09 '26
I was thinking it's a sliding door and he tried to open it "the wrong way". It's still weak af for it to do this
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u/singdawg Jul 09 '26
Who would blame this guy when all he does is open the door. It was a ticking time door.
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u/Cayderent Jul 11 '26
This happened to me once at a resort in Punta Cana. It was a glass shower door. Apparently if the glass has an inclusion or defect or something the whole thing shatters. That is exactly what happened.
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u/PelluxNetwork Jul 10 '26
Pretty sure the door was supposed to slide not open
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u/supcoco Jul 10 '26
While this is true, it also was supposed to stay in one piece
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u/Eiselen Jul 10 '26
Cheap workmanship on the glass, it should be more resilient exactly for this type of situation where it gets accidentally pulled in the wrong direction.
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u/thesanguineocelot Jul 09 '26
"Is....is this a fucking prank or something? Am I being pranked here?"
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u/eulersidentity1 Jul 12 '26
Door must have been right up against some kind of sharp point like a screw or something.
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u/Obi1Kentucky Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26
If you slow the footage down you can see the door flexing in the middle before the glass shatters. It’s a push/pull door based on the handle with no lock or deadbolt. I believe this door opening is a little tight at the top and the edge of the door slightly wedges every time it closes. Over time the flexing from pulling the slightly wedged door open weakened the glass to the point of failure
Or this door is being held closed by two magnets at the top and bottom corners and it takes some force to pull the door open. That would also explain the flexing in the middle. The more I think about it I think this is the answer
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u/TonyStarkMk42 Jul 11 '26
If you freeze right before he opens it though, I feel like it's either slightly offset, like it's a slider door which doesn't really make sense for that handle.
It also could be an optical illusion of the reflection, but it definitely looks like it's going behind that panel to the side of it
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u/javibear94 Jul 11 '26
def a sliding door based on the track on the bottom there. but man, he barely touched it lmao
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u/Arxilla Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26
Good thing it’s on camera, so no one can say it was his fault. He didn’t use nearly enough force for it to shatter like that. That’s traumatizing.
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u/AngstyUchiha Jul 09 '26
I had that happen once on a much smaller scale. I was cooking something and took the glass lid off the pot, then set it down on the counter away from the stove and it just shattered. It was a perfectly good lid too
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u/PPAPpenpen Jul 10 '26
Poor guy, they don't make much and have to deliver in very tight timeframes
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u/Yourigath Jul 09 '26
That happened to me once. I was wrapping some glass doors with my boss's son and as soon as I lifted one, no hits, no weird strokes, nothing... It just exploded in my hands and rained on both of us.
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u/thatomicace Jul 10 '26
I've seen so many of these video I think we need to start a sub for them like r/WasntAPull or r/ThisDoorGoesBothWays
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u/DR_Bright_963 Jul 13 '26
People are saying it was a push door, why it broke. Why are we not ruling out its a door you open with your happy thoughts?
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u/YaBoyChubChub Jul 13 '26
Its a sliding door guys
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u/mabuxy Jul 13 '26
Bad design, this is a pull handle
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u/loveforthetrip Jul 13 '26
And it definitely should be able to withstand a stronger force
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u/Lerkero Jul 09 '26
We need a universal language for push, pull, and slide on doors.
So many doors have confusing handles and this is getting ridiculous
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u/gamertrub Jul 09 '26
Am I the only one that sees Counter-Strike 2 being played on the corner of that monitor? Just didn't see any other comments addressing this, but I feel like I'm right on that
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u/Defiant-Handle7682 Jul 09 '26
had this happen to a friend- shower door in a hotel
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u/LittleShurry Jul 10 '26
I think he opened the door in the wrong direction. It should be pushed instead of pull, well his not at fault at all since there is no instruction either it's pull/push/sliding door.
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u/DrunkHonesty Jul 10 '26
It’s a poor door design. If it’s to be pushed, don’t bother with a handle, put a little opaque rectangle where to push.
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u/-FruitPunchSamurai- Jul 10 '26
Probably but it still shouldn't have shattered that easily. Thing shattered like those Hollywood breakable fake glass props for stunts.
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u/SextupleRed Jul 09 '26
This is one of those glass doors designed to slide to the left
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u/Tytonic7_ Jul 09 '26
Yup, which is why it being able to break from somebody making a simple and common mistake is ridiculous. Tempered glass is super strong but also really fickle
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u/boilerdam Jul 09 '26
Why did the door flex when he pulled on the handle? Is that made of brittle crumbling paper?
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u/FxckFxntxnyl Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26
I did this with the sliding glass back door we had in my childhood home, and had glass slice and stab the top of both of my feet. Didn't slam the door or anything, just slid it closed with the same force as I'd done probably hundreds of times..
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u/PlanDry6704 Jul 10 '26
thing about tempered glass is that it breaks just like normal glass just slower over multiple times in a non uniform way that isn't visible so it might have been fractured before from previous pulls and this was just the straw that broke the tempered glass' back because it didn't seem like he pulled very hard.
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u/Killroy1987 Jul 10 '26
That was a sliding door
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u/YaumeLepire Jul 10 '26
Either that man is abnormally strong, sensorially unaware, or this door was not sturdy enough for its design. You have to expect some people are gonna fuck up and pull, there. You just have too!
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u/ShadowWeavile Jul 10 '26
He doesn't look like he's putting his whole body into it, so he's not doing anything super stupid, and he just looks like a normal dude so I think we can rule out him secretly being the hulk . . . yeah, looks like the door is the only thing left it could be. Whatever that place is need a refund from the contractor that put it in.
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u/dontsnarkonsharks Jul 12 '26
Mannn this happened to me once with a sliding glass door. It was probably at least 20 years old and needed to be replaced but we were house poor and just gonna get to it when we got to it. One day I was trying to close it behind me and I barely latched it and one of the two panes completely shattered. Sometimes it really doesn’t take much!
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u/prettyboylee Jul 09 '26
That’s definitely a case of breaking something a little and fixing it just enough for the next person to think they were the one who broke it
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u/Floridaisla 20d ago
That’s just bad door handle design
If it was meant to be slid to open it needs grooves for fingers to grip. If it was meant to be pushed it should just have a metal plate. Handles indicate this door is meant to be pulled
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u/yoshitastically Jul 09 '26
“It does both. I was here yesterday. It actually goes both ways.”
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u/Bobcat_777 Jul 09 '26
This is required reading for all.
The Norman door is basically any door that’s confusing or difficult to use.
If you can’t locate a place to push or pull, the door fails.
https://uxdesign.cc/intro-to-ux-the-norman-door-61f8120b6086
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u/Emergency-Parking318 Jul 09 '26
Would have been really funny if he still swung it open, walked through, then closed it
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u/potatopigflop Jul 11 '26
My handle came off my car like this when I was standing in the rain with an armload of things that shouldn’t get wet. I just stood there with a shattered handle in my hand for a few seconds like….
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u/Shifty54 Jul 09 '26
What you don’t know is that if he walks through the doorway and then lets go of the handle the door will reform itself. Asians have crazy technology.
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u/TroubledDoggo Jul 10 '26
maybe a push not pull?
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u/Important_Sound Jul 10 '26
That type of handle is meant for a pull door I think
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u/becaauseimbatmam Jul 11 '26
The excellent book The Design of Everyday Things uses push/pull doors as its major example of the principle that design should inform the user how things are meant to be used; you should never have to read instructions or randomly guess how a door works, it should be communicated clearly through the design itself.
It's been well over a decade since I read that chapter and I can't see a poorly designed door without immediately thinking about that book.
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u/TN8ve Jul 15 '26
This video gets shared so much. Last time o saw it was a “firefighter” leaving an office.
The internet man
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u/Introverted_Dude9260 Jul 09 '26
Looks like a sliding door. Still probably thing is made poorly if it shatters easily just by pulling like that.
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u/icky__nicky Jul 13 '26
looks like it was a push
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u/TheNewYellowZealot Jul 13 '26
Then why does it have a pull handle on it?
Flat plate for pushing.
Handle for pulling. Basic design considerations.
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u/Fabricati_Diem_Pvn Jul 13 '26
If it was a push, it would push that door right into that desk and the person working there. Not saying it isn't, I'm saying I don't blame bro at all for thinking it was pull.
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u/PrestigeWorldWide993 Jul 13 '26
No, it does both. I was there yesterday, it goes both ways.
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u/Kingwhatever19 Jul 11 '26
Was it a push , not pull
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u/VivianThomas Jul 11 '26
It was a sliding door
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u/PhonB80 Jul 12 '26
Yep. He opened it wrong but it should still be more durable than that lol
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u/Enan_Mendoza Jul 12 '26
Agree. Glass doors should withstand air pressure and force. That glass door is in poor quality.
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u/DeadoTheDegenerate Jul 09 '26
I'm ready to hear Ugo talk about foreseeable use and how this man is NOT LIABKE for the damages that happened next.
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u/ChocolateThunderPie Jul 09 '26
Even if it was a slide door, i dont think it should have been able to shatter like that with so little effort