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  1. Blaanam says:

    Holy crap, what a chock THAT must have been. Like: “Yeeah… I’m totally gonna walk through this door without experiencing anything unexpected….. yeeah…. so far so gooOOOMfG!!”

  2. Jpoel says:

    Whaaa! Wonder what went wrong there!

  3. cosmostrator says:

    Editing fail.

  4. Bob Bob says:

    How is that even possible?

  5. thatotherguy says:

    the door pretty much just tried to eat that guy

  6. Biff says:

    Is that a 2×4 on the floor after the door breaks? It looks like the door in front of the guy moved backwards while the one behind kept turning normally, which sandwiched him. I’m wondering if the front door pane moved backwards and broke because somebody threw a 2×4 into it.

    • TyVitty says:

      Yea, the 2×4 was a part of the door frame that hit him in the back. You can see it disconnect and fall right across from him. No one really caused this. It seems like the one section of the door came off the track and fell onto the reverse track, which apparently was moving very fast. That is just really bad luck. The two seconds of the entire day that this could have happened was the very moment this guy walked in.

      Not to mention the chance that he would be in the exact slot that would glitch out like that. Poor guy!

    • DarkThatFollows says:

      Nah that’s the metal part of the door that breaks in 1/2 when the glass falls out.

    • dee dee dee says:

      no, it’s a part of the door.

  7. Bobcat says:

    I swear the door planned it all along

  8. Shadow says:

    When doors attack…

  9. Tess says:

    I’ve watched this a few times to try to figure out what happened. It looks like the door infront of him swung back towards him and the other one kept going.

  10. Juice says:

    Edit FAIL. This should’ve been a 20 sec. clip, not 1:10.

  11. ghouck says:

    Fedor by armbar. . .

  12. Senshi says:

    Yeah, what the hell happened? The entire door pretty much folded up around the axis, centered on the poor sod.

  13. martin says:

    as far as I can tell, the door in front of the poor guy stopped moving, thus leaving him in a glass sandwich of pain.

  14. BillGama says:

    Really weird, maybe a REALLY strong wind made the door turn into itself?

  15. Crossbow says:

    Some jackass tried to come in the revolving door going the wrong direction.

  16. Mark says:

    Looked to me like a wind gust blew the front panel back on the dude. Probably the panel was loose too. You can see the mat on the floor blow back in the wind after the door is broken.

  17. moi says:

    Looks like maybe there was a major wind that came up and shot the front door back at him? The rug on the carpet is moving because of the wind after.

    But ya, totally looks like it ate him!

  18. fuzz on the concept says:

    “This is the end, my friend.”
    ~ The Doors

  19. duh says:

    That’s not even funny. Just scary.

  20. Lizard Lava says:

    HOLY F**K! Thats AMAZING! That door actually was all like “WAIT A MINUTE! I’M SICK OF THIS S**T, ALL REVOLVING ALL DAY!!! SCREW YOU!!”

    And BAM!

    It LOOKS like the door section in front of the guy just got stuck and the other door kept going and the force of the guy stopping the door behind him and being pushed into the door in front of him caused the frame to break and the glas to shatter.

    I hope his eyes were ok! Geez!

  21. Johnnyboy says:

    New meaning to the term, “What Goes Around Comes Back Around”

    • fuzz on the concept says:

      nice …
      also new meaning to “saying you want a revolution” and “talking ’bout destruction”
      ~ The Beatles

  22. fuzz on the concept says:

    “Her body numbs as he approaches the revolver door.”
    ~ Rage of the Machine, as it were

  23. nubbins says:

    Don’t these doors typically have an emergency release button that makes each pane move freely?

  24. Me says:

    At the end you can see the door and rug moving, probably because of high winds outside. Maybe that caused it?

  25. Andrew says:

    As part of an emergency panic function revolving doors are supposed to fold up so people can escape, ie fire. This works like a panic bar (the bar you have to push) on exit doors. On some models of revolving doors when a back up occurs and people start to push on the doors they will fold up. I am guessing that the door was either pushed by person or a strong gust of wind that made the doors start to fold up. This action would have come from the outside. This caused the doors to fold up on the man that was “revolving” in said doors. The crashing of the glass looks like it occured when the door struck the man. The glass looks as though it is tempered. You can break tempered glass with a small strike, like a spring loaded center punch, pretty easily. As far as an example of panic type doors check out your local supermarket that has sliding glass doors. If you go into the vestibule and psuh out on the door the door sortof slides out of the track and outward to facilitate escape. In accuality the door doesn’t come out of track and can be easily put back into place during accidental bumping, like if a shopping cart hits it or something. The video was pretty neat though as an example of collapsing doors and what would happen if you are on the wrong side of it.

  26. Kai says:

    I just hope the dude isn’t permanently blind form all the glass he must’ve caught in the face. Who ever heard of getting a money shot from a door?

  27. OM says:

    That’s like a nightmare coming true. Might as well be eaten by a clown.

  28. nubbins says:

    I think the emergency release button was pushed. It releases the doors off of the track and lets them swing freely.

  29. Brad says:

    If you continue to watch you’ll note that the door will sometimes jerk. It appears as though the mechanism which operates the doors, was not fully connected to all the doors.

  30. mike says:

    lol half the door panels were spinning the wrong way, while the other half went on.

  31. Dre says:

    Band Fail
    Rage AGAINST the Machine

  32. chenry says:

    Oh crap, that must have hurt like hell.

  33. ExeQQtion says:

    Emergency Release makes the doors swing freely. Looks like that one had some recoil.

  34. Lizard Lava says:

    WOW ! whoever said someone tried to go in the wrong way, was right, look at the guy walking up on the left hand side, he pushes the door the wrong way causing it to go OMGFZOMG!!! and then the guy all covered in glasticles and THEN the guy outide looks through the window payne AND walks off!!!

  35. RH says:

    It looks like the wind may have caught the panel in front of him. As soon as the chamber in front opens to the outside the panel in front of him moves back violently.

  36. Joe says:

    Why should it be automatic? Why can’t people just push the damn door?

  37. Gollum says:

    The guy outside totally leaned forward and did something to the door just before it mouse-trapped that dude. Monkey Wrenching WIN???

  38. Gamer_2k4 says:

    I’m pretty sure this is fake, just because of how the glass breaks. Special effects glass shatters completely like that, but real glass comes out in chunks and pieces.

  39. Perceptive in Parry Sound says:

    Some dude tried to come in from outside, you can see him enter the door coming in from the left (0:20). Then he apparently pushed hard on the door going the wrong way. When the door EXPLODES, he backs off quickly, stands to the right of the door (0:23), and pauses there until (0:27). Then he walks over to the left to look inside (0:37)… then he backs away (0:40) and goes out of the frame.

    This clip would be greatly enhanced by adding some foley sound, and voiceover dialog – for instance I’d preamble the crash with some conversation among the group about how cool revolving doors are… and dub in the guy who got eaten by the door yelling “My EYES! My EYES!!! I can’t SEE! Oh my god my eyes are bleeding! Someone help me! help! HELLLLLP! Oh for the love of Regis and Kelly my face is slashed to ribbons!”

    • fuzz on the concept says:

      Some dude named K pointed this out (24:00) minutes ago.

    • drb says:

      I don’t think the guy was pushing from the wrong side, because, one, as it’s flying inward, nobody’s arms are visible that would be pushing from the other side, and two, it’s not just that panel that’s going the wrong way, there’s one from the other side, on the left side of the door. I think the guy outside was just in the wrong place at the wrong time, and just jumped back in shock at the door exploding. It doesn’t look to me like it was his fault. And it doesn’t look like he was terribly affected by any huge gust of wind that would have been necessary to blow the doors in. I think eating random people is just a built-in feature of that door.

  40. Spazz says:

    Ever since I saw that one guy get assassinated at the end of The Godfather, I’ve had a lingering fear of revolving doors.

    This video may blow that fear up into an all-out phobia.

  41. Gollum says:

    Also, watch the woman who goes through the door before him look back, pull something out of her bag, pause at the entrance of the door, then walk away hurriedly.

  42. david says:

    EMERGENCY WIND RELEASE!

  43. FailedOnce says:

    Anobody notice the person behind the desk? He just stays on the phone like nothing happened.

  44. Cougar says:

    Quote from a firefighter’s manual about revolving doors:

    COLLAPSE MECHANISMS
    OF REVOLVING DOORS

    • Panic-proof type — Is triggered by forces pushing in
    opposite directions on the quadrants

    • Drop-arm type — Is collapsed by pressing the pawl to
    disengage the arm, then pushing the quadrant to one side

    • Metal-braced type — Is collapsed by lifting the “gate
    hook” assembly and fastening it back against the fixed
    quadrant; hooks are located on both sides of the
    quadrant”

    That one appears to be of the first type, probably it was the **** we see approaching the door from the outside that made this happen.

  45. c-dog says:

    He pulled his umbrella out with his right hand as he entered the door and got the handle caught between the door and the frame.
    As the door tried to rotate, the tension shattered the glass.

  46. Dewes says:

    This door don’t like punny human!

  47. Killerwit says:

    After this scene, the T-1000s emerged and terminated all carbon-based organisms.

  48. AmyFail says:

    Nom nom

  49. overdrives says:

    the explanation have been given in another site
    it’s simply the emergency system going crazy
    it makes the 4 doors into 1 for people to run out of here faster in case of fire

  50. Bigfoot says:

    There is a women walking into the wrong way of the door. If this door has a motor going 1 direction. She must of pushed on the glass caused the motor to over power the door and push the other doors together.

  51. deABREU says:

    I like the music in this one

  52. Omega says:

    Man… that’s hurt

  53. H3g3m0n says:

    I like the fact that it makes one final attempt at rotating near the end. ☢

  54. k8 says:

    I think the receptionist is laughing at him.

  55. justinnnn says:

    obviously its very cold outside, which makes the glass more dense and therefore, weaker. the gust of air outside causes the doors to blow together, sandwiching the man and breaking the glass

  56. Gollum says:

    I know I’m repeating myself, but watch closely, the woman who we first see entering the elevator looks back to see who’s behind her, then grabs something from her purse, looks back again just before she leaves the elevator, and pauses for a second, perhaps placing something to help jam the door, then walks away.

    As this is happening a man outdoors approaches, moving left to right, and kneels forward into the revolving doorway, as if to place something else in the doorway, then continues on his way just as the door collapses.

    In my opinion, the guy who gets creamed is in on it too, which is why he waited so long before entering the doorway. Probably an insurance scam, though that looked pretty painful, but some people hate their jobs that much.

  57. 4ndyman says:

    My question is, why is this clip 45 seconds longer than it needs to be? I kept waiting for more to happen!

  58. Kim says:

    door got hungry? nom

  59. Snusch says:

    At first, I thought that this was the proof that Chuck Norris can slam revolving doors.
    But then I realized that this guy didn’t slam the door, but the revolving door slammed HIM.

  60. deliverer says:

    This happened in Belgium, in a building of a bank named Dexia. It was on the news the other day and appeared to be a video held back by the bank for a few years. It was indeed a ‘feature’ in case anyone would get stuck. The guy who got slammed in between appeared to only have a few scratches but no major injuries.

  61. Robby says:

    Yeah, the door went in emergency mode.
    This was in a bank in Brussels and all over the news a few weeks ago over here.

  62. Gollum says:

    Incredible, the troll’s lack of self-awareness must explain their lack of original thought and thus their need to validate thier existance through attempts to ridicule and discredit others. This is truly fascinating and requires futher study.

  63. lol says:

    On some of the revolving doors theres a button that althoughs them to fold up and open completly… My guess is the guy was just unlucky enough to walk through as it folded, causing the glass to shatter…

    • annabellie79 says:

      can someone please arrest this man (or woman) for improper use of the English language?
      *there is or there’s* not theres
      *allows* not althoughs
      etc., etc., etc….

  64. Art Vandalay says:

    Holy crap, that was nuts!

    (That is all…)

  65. ALDAFOOC says:

    They guy died, i saw it on the news.

    • ButhedaBunzai says:

      They guy.













      What?

      Most of the time I would rather be ignorant and happy, or well-informed and paranoid. But, reading your comment somehow made me want to be ignorant and paranoid. I HAVE NEVER BEEN AND WILL NEVER BE HAPPY AND WELL-INFORMED!

  66. shoobeydoobey says:

    singularity achieved

  67. Walter says:

    The guy felt Soviet Russia window power

  68. grond says:

    Has anyone mentioned yet that there is a guy coming in the wrong way?

  69. chuck says:

    chuck norris isnt the only one who can slam a revolving door it seems

  70. bosch says:

    it’s filmed by a security camera at the kbc bank in brussels , Belgium.

    it’s caused by the wind (and security on the doors failed, or something like that).

  71. Grungerjack says:

    someone is gonna get suuuuueeeeddd

  72. Chows says:

    It’s obviously a ghost! Look at that carpet move at the end!

  73. EvilEyeProductions says:

    I honestly think that the discussion for this video is funnier than the video itself. Thanks guys, for hours upon hours of hilarity.

  74. Robo says:

    Whoever designed this door is a complete idiot. If they were going to design it so that the police and paramedics can get in there easily..that’s fine…but…it looks like they designed it so that the police and paramedics can come there. There should have been a locking pin in place to prevent this. It’s a piece of crap that the people who wanted to build this door using that product.

  75. Mechy says:

    I sincerely doubt that it’s an emergency button or the lack. Those doors SLAMMED together FAST. To fast to be mechanical unless they’re putting huge hydrolic pumps in the door controls.

  76. what the hell happened?

  77. stepo says:

    Anyway, he doesn’t need to work anymore if it was in the USA. Good lawyer and there are the millions already…

  78. MrDobilina says:

    YOU SHALL NOT PASSSSSS

  79. cymraig says:

    My granny could have told you – it was the fairies wot done it.

  80. cymraig says:

    It’s Welsh for Welsh. I what language is Loz meaningful?

  81. Ben says:

    That must’ve been one of Demetri Martin’s “Reverse” Revolving doors.

  82. Divided by zero says:

    Does anyone else start hearing this weird movie thing (something about 3 planets eclipsing and a black hole) if they are on this site long enough?

    • Divided by zero says:

      Let me rephrase, does anyone else start hearing “The Fifth Element” if they stay one this site long enough? I’d like to point out that I had no other windows or tabs open and no other programs; all that I had up was this site.

  83. M says:

    the guy (who went the wrong way into the door) stands outside for awhile then totally just runs off.

    • K says:

      Hey M, what say you and I get together and make an Olsen twin?

      • Huggy Bear says:

        You sir (ma’am?) are our winner for today, here, have a medal.

        Also, if my brackets are answered in the affirmative I’ll get together with you,
        just forget the olsen twin.

        P.S. If my grammar was in any way wrong; feel free to slap me with a herring
        (almost frozen trout? whatever you people are using these days).

  84. BadarZ says:

    The glass pane that is moves towards his back.. notice that it shatters before it actually hits him. This would be the inbuilt safety I guess. If the glass panes hadn’t shattered, he’d be pretty flat right now.

  85. Elvira says:

    I find it interesting that while the people inside the building panic and run, the people outside continue to walk by without seeming to notice what’s going on. I’d have expected to see a huge crowd of gawkers gather pretty quickly. Weird.

  86. Sonk says:

    funny how they all look at the door instead of the man to check if hes ok.

  87. Soulcrun says:

    Not funny as it’s painful and I feel for that man.
    STOP POSTING PAINFUL FAILS

  88. Rogueposter says:

    Doors Eat People!

  89. Kari says:

    BTW, I still think it could have been the wind. Notice the people walking by outside — the ones going from the left to the right appear to be leaning into the wind, and the ones going the opposite way seem to be fighting a tailwind. That would seem to indicate that the wind outside the door is quite strong, possibly strong enough to collapse the “panic mechanism” in the door.

  90. jeroen says:

    ok so I’m gonna solve this mistery this is in brussels belgium in the dexiabank.

    it was on the news here (from belgium myself) and what happend was this: the emergency mechanism started working this mechanism makes the doorflaps come into one line so ppl can run out of the building fast in case of fire for instance. problem is this wasn’t supposed to happen so it kinda clapped into eachother to ahrd and well the glass broke as you can see

    there solved

  91. jeroen says:

    Ok i’m gonna solve this mistery for you guys since you don’t know where it even happened ^^

    it happend in brussels belgium in the dexia tower bank.

    the rotating doors there have an emergency system that lines up the doorflaps in one line if it is triggered by an alarm. problem is this was a mechanical failure and it activated itself for no apparant reason. so it actually slammed itself shut while it shouldn’t have.

    so ther eyou go mistery solved

    ps: no i’m not making this shit up i’m from belgium myself and i read it into a newspaper.

  92. jeroen says:

    aaargh double (now tripple) post DAMN YOU LAGGING INTERNET!!!!

  93. Ninjas Expert says:

    I’ve seen this kind of work. Ninjas. Damn right you didn’t see what happened.

  94. George W. says:

    Man I’ve seen this video 5 times and I still don’t see anything spectacular? What was the point of this?

  95. Sauce says:

    Oh my god must have hurt big time.

  96. nincanta says:

    hehehe *splode*

  97. moop says:

    lol sucks to be him

  98. vertie says:

    its a guy who trys to enter it in the wrong way… or just likes to jam the door.. if you watch closely you see the guy.. and after that he is staring treu the window from outside

  99. Steve Adams says:

    dude, if that happened to me, id sue the asses off of that office building

  100. Spooki says:

    Conspiracy theory:

    Before the woman walks out she looks back at the man, after she makes it out the door, she stands there for a moment, and then ran…

    I have no idea what she could have done to the door to make it do that, but it’s kinda suspicious…

  101. starponys says:

    i think i know what happend the first person goes in the group of guys come 1 guy goes in and goes with the door than outside if u look close the guy pushed the door in and the other guy jumped back thats what made the carpet move because a big gust of wind comon people id have to be a huricane but the people out side look fine to me

    • no u says:

      u should get together with vertie and go look close at the many comments that have already explained it
      but i guess u are in too much of a huri

  102. this guy says:

    I’ve seen rotating doors with handicap facilitation that do things like that. The panels fold in on each other perpendicular to the entrance to allow enough space for wheel chairs to go through. Maybe this door had a feature like that and there just weren’t any safety mechanisms in place? And also the person that appears to attempt to walk in the wrong way could have been pressing the handicap button for operation.

  103. jophno says:

    FAIL
    HE does not appear to be laughing.

  104. Joely says:

    Oh my god! i watch this so many times, it reminds me of something from the final destination series!!!
    I hope that guy is alright!!

  105. :P says:

    sometime this glass will blast, i seen then work with it..

  106. ShadowVlican says:

    dayum that must’ve sucked for that guy walking the correct way lol

  107. 5hann Da w1n says:

    Yes. All the Panels did fold together for whatever reason… it would be funny if I wasn’t busy trying to figure out why they did so.

  108. Matt says:

    Interesting, it is obvious (to me anyways, I’m an engineer that’s dealt with this) that it’s a huge pressure differential, a make up air unit probably failed, the building exhaust stayed on, and sucked the two glass doors in (if you watch carefully, two doors fold in when they are parallel to the windows). Never thought it could happen that violently with rotating doors, however.

  109. shmitz says:

    After reviewing the video carefully, and watching the people outside, here is what happened:
    The guy exiting was pressing against the door in a counterclockwise direction. You can see a guy outside, coming from the left, walk up quite quickly and he presses on the door in a clockwise direction, quite hard. When the door breaks, the guy outside hovers for a moment, unsure of what to do, and then eventually walks to the left and peaks in to see if the guy is okay.
    I say engineering fail.

  110. Splish Splash says:

    HOW DOES THAT EVEN HAPPEN?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! LMAO LMFAO!!!!!

  111. Warhawk says:

    FINAL DESTINATION!

  112. this happened because chuck norris doesnt like revolving doors

  113. Chris says:

    I think when revolving doors need to be locked the doors fold together (electrically of course). Im guessing it just malfunctioned

  114. tricky says:

    Epic win for revolving door!

  115. andrew says:

    WAIT : IT’S A TRAP!

  116. derp says:

    SOME1 CAME INTO THE REVOLVING DOOR FROM THE OUTSIDE AND PUSHED THE DOOR IN THE WRONG DIRECTION AND CAUSED THE DOORS TO FOLD IN N CRASH


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