Bad - locking your keys in the car.
Worse - locking your keys in an Armored car.
Yep, the ATM service company locked the keys in their armored car. Whoever they sent out to help spent 2 hours with hammer, chiesl and drill to bust a door lock and get in.
Sounds expensive
Floating Doc (Forum Supporter) said:Sounds expensive
Sounds like someone's getting fired.
They sent the wrong guy. If it took me two hours to break into a door I'd be embarrassed.
Drilling a lock takes about 10 minutes, tops.
In reply to KyAllroad (Jeremy) (Forum Supporter) :
Given the nature of the business I would guess an armored truck has something a little more sophisticated than a typical lock you can drill in under 10 minutes.
I bet it could be picked without damaging the truck. Opening anything with a hammer, chisel and drill sounds destructive and expensive and it also takes that truck out of service until repairs are completed.
No spare key?
I've been watching The Rockford Files the past month.
Jim would've picked that lock in 3 minutes.
The worst case of losing one's keys happened right in front of me.
I was traveling and was headed out from the hotel. This lady was coming towards the elevator so I held the door for her. She had a lot of things in her arms, suitcase, hanging bag, purse, and her car keys. As she started to step into the elevator some of her stuff shifted and she went to catch it. In doing so, she dropped her keys. And they went perfectly down the gap between the elevator and floor. Gone. It was the keys to her own car as she was a couple hours from her home and was driving back there as soon as she checked out. Not much I could do so I wished her luck and left. Never knew what happened.
Scott_H said:The worst case of losing one's keys happened right in front of me.
I was traveling and was headed out from the hotel. This lady was coming towards the elevator so I held the door for her. She had a lot of things in her arms, suitcase, hanging bag, purse, and her car keys. As she started to step into the elevator some of her stuff shifted and she went to catch it. In doing so, she dropped her keys. And they went perfectly down the gap between the elevator and floor. Gone. It was the keys to her own car as she was a couple hours from her home and was driving back there as soon as she checked out. Not much I could do so I wished her luck and left. Never knew what happened.
Maintenance guy for hotel can very likely retrieve them. Dropping them down a storm sewer grate (one of my occasionally recurring dreams for some reason) would be much worse.
Scott_H said:The worst case of losing one's keys happened right in front of me.
I was traveling and was headed out from the hotel. This lady was coming towards the elevator so I held the door for her. She had a lot of things in her arms, suitcase, hanging bag, purse, and her car keys. As she started to step into the elevator some of her stuff shifted and she went to catch it. In doing so, she dropped her keys. And they went perfectly down the gap between the elevator and floor. Gone. It was the keys to her own car as she was a couple hours from her home and was driving back there as soon as she checked out. Not much I could do so I wished her luck and left. Never knew what happened.
That happened to me lol
Idiots. Everyone should have one of these<sarcasm>
In reply to wheelsmithy (Joe-with-an-L) (Forum Supporter) :
Pulling a hide a key off the bottom of an armored car sounds like a scene in a Leslie Nielsen movie.
Some of the stories reminds me of a autocross crowd bar memory. We were all in outdoor seating which was a ground level deck. One of the guys dropped his credit card and it went right between the boards.
Solution was duct tape and the antenna off my Miata.
einy (Forum Supporter) said:Scott_H said:The worst case of losing one's keys happened right in front of me.
I was traveling and was headed out from the hotel. This lady was coming towards the elevator so I held the door for her. She had a lot of things in her arms, suitcase, hanging bag, purse, and her car keys. As she started to step into the elevator some of her stuff shifted and she went to catch it. In doing so, she dropped her keys. And they went perfectly down the gap between the elevator and floor. Gone. It was the keys to her own car as she was a couple hours from her home and was driving back there as soon as she checked out. Not much I could do so I wished her luck and left. Never knew what happened.
Maintenance guy for hotel can very likely retrieve them. Dropping them down a storm sewer grate (one of my occasionally recurring dreams for some reason) would be much worse.
I did that in front of a craigslist seller house three hours from home. A Georgia toothpick to pry the grate up, ladder down the hole, dont think about whats in the water, and a magnetic stick. Got the keys, drove hime with no pants or shoes because they were in the bed of the truck.
Craigslist guy was cool as hell the whole time, and said that he had gotten neighbors kids toys out of the same drain grate.
In reply to Dusterbd13-michael (Forum Supporter) :
I had to google "Georgia toothpick".
Needs more oxy acetylene
Does anyone here watch the LockPickingLawyer on youtube? Bet he could handle an armored car door in an embarrassingly short time.
Pete Gossett (Forum Supporter) said:In reply to Dusterbd13-michael (Forum Supporter) :
I had to google "Georgia toothpick".
Kinda scared to hear what you found. Its what we called a digging iron where i grew up (at least im told that they are called a digging iron in the south)
In reply to Scott_H :
I had something similar happen--kinda. When I got out of school, I lived in an old house that had been converted into apartments. Long staircase from the parking lot to our little studios on the top floor.
One night I'm in bed, it's late, and I hear someone coming up the stairs: step, step, step.
Jingle.
Pause.
Step, step, step.
Then crying outside my door.
My neighbor, who apparently had a bad evening, dropped her keys on the stairs, and they perfectly landed in the small gap between the stairs and the wall.
She got lucky: The area beneath the stairs had been turned into a (locked) storage closet, and that's where I kept my race tires. Crisis averted.
I mean, at least when the person was done they could just pay them out of the back.
This is why you never hand keys, cell phones, or wallets across the gap from dock to boat.
My boss once dropped her blackberry under a bullet train in Japan at the station. They kindly moved the train and retrieved it for her. I sat there the whole time videoing it.
If I were running an armored car company and I was in this situation, I'd tell the guy opening the truck to make it look as difficult as possible. Great advertising.
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