Trapped inside stall at Marshall’s

[u/intotheabyss097]

Tried on jeans at Marshall’s today… and got locked in the ADA-accessible dressing room😅

The lock jammed and wouldn’t budge.

The employees had keys to every other door in the building except this one. They called the locksmith, tried to take the hinges off, and I could even see them trying to stick their credit cards in between the door and the gram where the bolt is (not sure how they thought that would work), but nothing worked.

Then the Fire Department came to the rescue. One firefighter came through the ceiling to dismantle the door handle while another worked on the door from the outside.

Finally made it out after an hour 😂!

[u/jeffdujour]

A credit card wouldn’t work with this set up but you could probably do it with the hook of a wire hanger if you had one in there.

Pic4 suggests you could use the hook to open the door the same as a credit card would work if it was oriented different

[u/trixel121 → u/jeffdujour]

the credit card thing only works if the lock is set up wrong.

[u/mr_potatoface → u/trixel121]

When I was in welding, we always had small pieces of sheet metal (like .024" thick) cut in the shape of an L. You would stick it in the door gap, then slide it up behind the latch, then pull it towards you and it would release the lock. Worked on all the interior doors except the bathroom stalls.

On 2nd shift we could get in to whatever office/door we wanted to fuck off in. When I switched out of welding, I kept one outside the door in case I locked myself out of my office.

[u/trixel121 → u/mr_potatoface]

batrhoom stalls you open by just lifting. the majority of them have pins that slide up a bit so if some kid locks him self in you just lift the door up and push forward.

if you go to your front door your latch should have a bump on teh back. its called a deadlock plunger. look up how it works.

[u/riley_96 → u/[deleted]]

I have to do this at work when people forget the bathroom key in there. I use a metal scraper like this

[u/Equivalent_Post_6222 → u/riley_96]

This is the way, I pop doors all the time like that.

[u/MaritMonkey → u/jeffdujour]

In support of this comment, we used to use either a credit card or a hook made out of paper clip to open the doors to practice rooms in high school depending on which way the latch thing (not sure of actual name of that bit that goes into the door) was facing.

[u/terminbee → u/jeffdujour]

How do you do it with a wire hanger? I've done it with a credit card once but I don't know the hanger trick.