My neighbor’s car locked him out after he’d unhooked the battery. It was then he realized that the mechanical key didn’t open the door, someone having unhooked the important parts of the lock inside the door frame, probably using a ‘Slim Jim’ or similar tool.
I explained that I no longer had any locksmith tools,
having given those away when I retired several years ago. I still understood how to by pass the system;
just that I’d need to be creative, I think that’s the term, in deciding how to
attack the challenge.
I had a nice long antenna out in the connex storage
building along with some empty plastic kitty litter containers. I went to the kitchen and borrowed two Teflon
coated spatulas to use for wedges and figured that might work.
I cut the kitty litter container into flat sheets and
started to insert these one at a time, bypassing the tight seal of the passenger
side front door. Then another and another
until the first spatula was able to get past the upright post. I placed sheets of plastic from the kitty
litter container along the edges of the door so the antenna, while being
inserted, wouldn’t scratch or mar the door edges. My neighbor had two small pieces of trim wood
that had enough strength to gently pry the door edge, just enough to permit the
antenna access to where the door lock was located.
This was when I started to sing a church hymn, mostly
in fun; but I think the Lord was helping all this time, “Guide Us, O Thou Great
Jehovah”. I had my neighbor help guide
the antenna’s working end by looking through the window until it landed squarely
on the lock’s pivot point.
The whole operation didn’t take that long and it was
quite exhilarating to be able to walk in the footsteps of the master of
modified tricks. Thank you, MacGyver, for
an inspired moment.
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