I'll admit that I've been known to chew out the folks at the local Safeway when I go in there late at night, and the door that's placarded "THIS DOOR MUST REMAIN UNLOCKED DURING BUSINESS HOURS" is locked, with several feet of merchandise stacked in front of it. Not that it does me any good--they just look at me like I'm some sort of a kook. Maybe if I'd stopped by right after the Great White disaster...
Anyway, I suspect that the photo is of the entrance to a stairwell that's a legally-required fire exit, and management has decided that they were getting riffraff sneaking around in the stairwells, and locked them off with high-security locks.
They'll be in a heap of trouble when the building burns, and fifty people die because the fire exits were locked. That's happened way too many times.
(Edited to note: I meant "riffraff" in the satirical sense, as a jab at those who think it is more important to control people than it is to keep people from dying in a fire. It's not a word I normally use to describe people.)
[This message has been edited by SolarPowered (edited 07-25-2005).]
