Wherein a lock is cut open
Oct. 24th, 2005 05:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sniffnoyOn MWF I have swim class. Today I was going there, I went into the locker room, changed into my bathing suit, put my clothes in a locker, closed it, and then shouted quite loudly "Oh no!"
There was a lock on the locker. I didn't notice it because the locker was open and empty. Now, you'd think the presence of a lock would prevent the locker from closing, but it didn't, and now my clothes were locked behind someone else's lock.
I have swim class, though, so I figure I'll leave it alone till afterward and see if whoever owns the lock has removed it by then.
One hour later, he has not. Now, at this point I should note that you are not supposed to use your own locks on these lockers, you're supposed to use ones they provide, and this was his own lock. So I went down to the front desk and I told them what had happened, and, since this wasn't one of their locks, they couldn't look up the combination, and I got to see a lock get cut open. The tool they use for that is huge. It's like a giant wirecutter - where by "giant" I mean "about the length of the desk I am sitting at right now". I suppose you need a lot of force to cut through something like that...
-Sniffnoy
There was a lock on the locker. I didn't notice it because the locker was open and empty. Now, you'd think the presence of a lock would prevent the locker from closing, but it didn't, and now my clothes were locked behind someone else's lock.
I have swim class, though, so I figure I'll leave it alone till afterward and see if whoever owns the lock has removed it by then.
One hour later, he has not. Now, at this point I should note that you are not supposed to use your own locks on these lockers, you're supposed to use ones they provide, and this was his own lock. So I went down to the front desk and I told them what had happened, and, since this wasn't one of their locks, they couldn't look up the combination, and I got to see a lock get cut open. The tool they use for that is huge. It's like a giant wirecutter - where by "giant" I mean "about the length of the desk I am sitting at right now". I suppose you need a lot of force to cut through something like that...
-Sniffnoy
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Date: 2005-10-25 05:54 pm (UTC)Funny story (about me being stupid): Once upon a time I saw a bunch of kids sitting in front of a locker with an open lock hanging off of it (which belonged to one of them) and decided to see whether they'd notice if I took the lock off and replaced it with my own while they were all sitting there. They didn't notice. However, for the sake of symmetry, I decided to not only lock *his* locker with *my* lock, but also *my* locker with *his* lock. As a result, since I was the perpetrator, I did not seek help, and was unable to open my locker for a day until my victim volunteered to do it himself. In the meantime, he had my lock cut off of his locker with some gigantic contraption like the one you described. Thus, I was lockless /and/ left without access to my locker. Silly me.
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Date: 2005-10-27 02:16 am (UTC)How have you not seen a boltcutter, Harry? They grow on freaking trees!
(I still have the severed lock that had been put on my locker as a prank.)
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Date: 2005-10-27 04:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-28 01:56 am (UTC)So nyah. After all, you're not the one who I mistook for a 6th grader when in fact a 9th grader. It was an honest mistake!
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Date: 2005-10-25 10:07 pm (UTC)