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Home » Musings » Escape from Alcatraz with a hairpin and tweezers

Escape from Alcatraz with a hairpin and tweezers

April 12, 2010 Paris B 16 Comments

Well I don’t know if anyone read my Tweets late last night but it turns out that at about 10.30pm I found myself locked inside my bedroom. The lock of my door had jammed for some reason and I was essentially stuck inside the room with no way out. If I could use lipgloss to open the door I would but I couldn’t – obviously 😛

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It took me about 2 hours to break the lock and to get out after midnight, with a little help from my bro who had to drive over from his place with screwdrivers. When I tell you that I live on a high floor of a condominium, and I had to have screwdrivers passed up to me from the condo unit downstairs, it all made for quite an adventure and a bit of McGuyver ingenuity.

But before I got my hands on a screwdriver which made things much easier and cut my work by about an hour, I was using various tools found in my bedroom in my attempt to dismantle the lock – I had a pair of tweezers for unscrewing screws, a hairpin for dismantling door knobs, a wire hanger to attempt to jiggle the lock loose and massage oil in a failed attempt to oil the stuck lock.

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They didn’t work to free me, obviously, but they kept me amused until help arrived in the form of screwdrivers, elbow grease and turning the air blue with cusses 🙂

Perhaps if I had persisted, the tweezers might have worked but it was late and I wasn’t in the mood to try it.

Have you had a McGuyver moment involving beauty tools 🙂 I know the title of my post is a bit misleading but hey! Made ya look! 😉

Paris B

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  1. Hanny says

    April 12, 2010 at 2:11 pm

    And usually, them, 20 sen coins work for doors… hehheh. But then again, it depends on the door knobs.

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    • ParisB says

      April 13, 2010 at 11:19 am

      Yep mine was an unusual problem.

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  2. Connie says

    April 12, 2010 at 2:52 pm

    LMAO!! Still got time to take pictures :p

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    • ParisB says

      April 13, 2010 at 11:20 am

      Of course! Got camera phone can do anything 😀

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  3. geekchic says

    April 12, 2010 at 3:27 pm

    Hey the last time I got locked in I was using hairpins and tweezers too! I still have pics of the mangled lock: will look for it.

    Blogger to the core: faced with a crisis but out comes the camera for a post!

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    • ParisB says

      April 13, 2010 at 11:22 am

      sadly yes. I had to take out the camera – that or go mad working on the lock

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  4. Tine says

    April 12, 2010 at 3:45 pm

    I can hear the Mission Impossible theme song playing in the background 😛

    Haven’t had that, err, luck being locked out (or in), but I’ve picked up your tips, just in case 😉

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    • ParisB says

      April 13, 2010 at 11:23 am

      They key tip to take away will be to keep a set of screwdrivers handy in your bedroom – just in case 😀

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  5. Nikki says

    April 12, 2010 at 4:01 pm

    Same reaction! I wouldn’t even bother to take photos! you are too Cute ms. GYVER! hahahha so 80s…so US! hahahaha

    I haven’t tried using beauty tools to do adventurous stuffs like this, but this post got me thinking..I should start bringing my tweezers everywhere! 😀

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    • ParisB says

      April 13, 2010 at 11:23 am

      I never thought tweezers could work screws but hey! now we all do! 😉 And yes I had to take photos. It was worthy of a post no? 😉

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  6. lyn says

    April 12, 2010 at 9:51 pm

    Oh, my! Think I’ll keep a set of men tools (as opposed to beauty tools) in the bedroom, just in case 😉

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    • ParisB says

      April 13, 2010 at 11:24 am

      Yes definitely! I’m changing my locks but I’ll keep a small screwdriver just in case 🙂

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  7. pinkcloud says

    April 12, 2010 at 11:09 pm

    LOL thats funny! u can still have the mood to take pictures!

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    • ParisB says

      April 13, 2010 at 11:25 am

      Yeah gotta see the lighter side of things or go mad 🙂

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  8. rinnah says

    April 13, 2010 at 9:17 am

    Wahahaha… and you still had presence of mind to take pictures along the way… I remember the same thing happened to my parents room before – the lock got stuck and we were all outside. I remember fiddling around with hairpins thinking I was McGuyver too! In the end, my uncle climbed into the room through the balcony and jimmied the lock there – apparently it was easier to crack than the room door itself and we opened the door from the inside out. 😛

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    • ParisB says

      April 13, 2010 at 11:25 am

      After working on my lock I concur. Its easier to dismantle the lock from within rather than from outside. You know me – blogger mah so must take pics 😉

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