What's Wrong With This Picture?

Photograph by: Ward Perrin , Vancouver Sun

It's an illegal knob, that's what.

They've been outlawed in Vancouver. (The other one, in Canada.) That story was featured here earlier, But there was an unintended consequence.

Goldilocks may need a new golden lock if she wants to avoid her three unlikely friends. Door levers make it easier for the elderly and disabled to open doors, true. But it also makes it easier for bears.

"Told you so," say some.

"One newspaper columnist in the pro-knob camp has noted that the velociraptors in “Jurassic Park” were able to open doors by their handles." (Economist : Knobless oblige )

First bears. Then, velociraptors.

Talk about a slippery slope.