[Dapper Dan]

Originally Posted by Vergil83

How did you finally solve the problem (in case I ever do that )?

At the time, I lived near my parents. I walked there, "borrowed" a coat hanger, fished it through the car window and pulled the door lock from inside. I'd become quite adept at this. You could do that with the old cars, the new ones are considerably harder to open this way. I was of course late for work.

[techieMoe]

Originally Posted by Dapper Dan

At the time, I lived near my parents. I walked there, "borrowed" a coat hanger, fished it through the car window and pulled the door lock from inside. I'd become quite adept at this. You could do that with the old cars, the new ones are considerably harder to open this way. I was of course late for work.

My mother locked her keys in the car once when I was about 10 years old. Thankfully it was a hot day and she had cracked the window open. This particular vehicle had door locks that were very hard to pop with a coat hanger. After a while the idea hit me to simply use the coat hanger to hook the keys that were still in the ignition and pull them out through the hole in the window.

[Dapper Dan]

Originally Posted by techieMoe

After a while the idea hit me to simply use the coat hanger to hook the keys that were still in the ignition and pull them out through the hole in the window.

LOL!
Can't help but to laugh! That is almost exactly what I did on my wife's Oldsmobile Aurora just a few years ago! Luckily I'd left them on the seat and not the ignition. It took some doing, and the window was all the way up. Once I got them to the crack, I had to pry the window back to work them through...

[Dark_Stang]

Nobody ever used a "Slim Jim" to unlock car doors? It's increadibly easy with pre90's vehicles, but since they've changed the lock style it's considerably harder. My favorite kit for cars now would have to be the "Big Easy".

[Dapper Dan]

I'm very fortunate now in that my very best beer drinking customer in my restaurant is a lock smith. Even if I have to pay him twice as mush as the going price, it's worth it because of his loyalty. HE can tell some stories though... lol!

[techieMoe]

Originally Posted by Dapper Dan

I'm very fortunate now in that my very best beer drinking customer in my restaurant is a lock smith. Even if I have to pay him twice as mush as the going price, it's worth it because of his loyalty. HE can tell some stories though... lol!

Slurring your words, I see. Been kicking back a few of your own today?

[Juan Pablo]

I once got locked on the kitchen, 2x2 meters, with a friend, my brother and my dog, you can tell how tight the space was, we had a window but it was locked too.
We waited for three hours before mom came and opened the door, no cell phones that time.

The lock was supposed to keep the dog in the kitchen while we were out and the dog was an untrained puppy, thus it was locked from outside but somehow we managed to close it from inside

[Vergil83]

Originally Posted by zba78

Quite ridiculous really but a few months back I managed to lock myself between my front door and the second door of my house (about 1.5 metres apart) on my way out to work.

I'd forgotten my keys and pulled the second door in behind me. The front door is one of those that are locked with a key from the inside or out.

So there I was, stuck like a fool, I had to use my mobile phone to call my mum to come downstairs and let me back in.

Even worst would have been if that was the one place in the house without phone coverage.