Category: lolwut?
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More pictures of screwed up lock installations
I get these all the time. Many of these problems could have been solved if people had just read the directions. Most locks come with installation directions and locks are designed to be much easier to install than they were 30 years ago.
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Improvised lockpicking or bypass tools seen in the field
Lockouts are maybe my favorite part of my job. Everybody is very thankful when you unlock their door. They are often the most comical part of my job, too. I’ve started collecting pictures of the implements scattered outside of people’s doors when they have given up and called me out. Here are a few of…
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The things people use to try and open their doors
Here’s some stuff I see a lot of outside of apartments in the University District. Bless their hearts, sometimes they will spend hours giving it the college try! Typical implements are hair pins, safety pins, hangers, bent credit cards, scissors, screwdrivers, and the occasional actual lockpick.
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You aren’t supposed to glue locks onto the door…
I was wondering why this lock wouldn’t come off the door! Whatever goon committed this atrocity must not have realized there are screws to be tightened behind the plate.