Trapped! No SAK! No Multi-tool! NOTHING!

Glad it all worked out okay.

I have always kept a basic tool kit/light in a bedroom draw.

Now I know why.

If the tools can't do the job, I can always go through the door with my Swamp Rat Ratweiler.

David
 
this just reinforces why you need at least a multi on your night stand... if not a toolbox in your closet(unless you pull that knob off and can't get at it either :p )
 
WadeF said:
So from now on I'm going to make sure to keep a multi-tool and some other tools stashed in the bedroom. Maybe a pry-bar too. :) I'm also going to hit the hardware store and pick up a better door knob as the one that was installed on this door is a cheap POS.
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Hi,

I am happy nothing happened this time. But as a father of three, let me give you some "blunt" advice: forget SAKs, multi-tools or any other small-size implements. If your house is on fire (or, for that matter, penetrated by an intruder) there is only one tool which you should keep handly: a axe.

I always keep a cheap Benchtop Pro 20oz Steel Camp Axe in my bedroom with which I can get to my kids (through two doors) in seconds, get out of the window or face an intruder. It is also a decent camping tool. And, if I remember well, you can get it at Kmart for less than 20 bucks.

I love knives, but for certain situations, you really want something stronger!

Also - another thing I keep next to my bed is a large (4 D batteries) Maglite flashlight. That can also come in handy in many emergency situations inside or outside your house.

Good luck!
 
I think my kids were around 5 or so when I first had them climb out their windows onto lower roofs.Also put my 24 footer up to the roof and climbed with them to the second floor roof and back down.

The first time you have to see how it is to go out your window and drop to the ground, lower roof etc.is not when there's a fire.

Also you don't jump,you hang from the sill / roof line.An adult hanging from a second floor sill will have their feet maybe 6 feet from the ground.

But then I've seen 20 or so people who burned up in fires,one New years eve I stacked 3 dead kids up like cord wood on a tarp untill the M.E cleared a shooting death and could pick them up.

stay safe. :)
 
Wade,I'm glad you got out.I keep a Gerber Multi-Tool in my dressser drawer because I'm too lazy to go two stories down for tools then back up to fix something on the second floor.I have had my bathroom door knob come off in my hand several times and the old shower knob used to loosen regularly.Don't have either problem anymore but still have the Gerber there in case.tom. :)
 
Thanks for all the great advice and ideas! Hopefully this topic will help others be prepared incase they find themselves in a similar situation. I'm going to go get myself some gear to pack in the bedroom closet. :)

It really was a wake up call to realize how you can suddenly feel very helpess, especially when you're half asleep and listening to your infant crying and you can't get to them. I think if I was in a better state of mind I would have dealt with the problem more quickly. I can only imagine if there was a fire and the room was filling with smoke.
 
WadeF said:
...she wanted me to call my Dad to come over, etc, but I wasn't going to do that until all options were exhausted. :)
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LOL! No schit! :D I don't blame you.

(I thought everyone kept a gun in their nightstand. ;) )


MY question is, where were your PANTS? Nothing in your pockets? You don't carry a SAK in your pants?:confused:
 
fulloflead said:
MY question is, where were your PANTS? Nothing in your pockets? You don't carry a SAK in your pants?:confused:
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Well, I tend to disarm myself when I'm downstairs. I leave my knives, SAK's, etc, on my desk. I guess I should just keep everything in my pocket, but at the end of the day I like to remove everything as it's more comfortable. :) Kind of like taking your shoes off and letting your feet air out and relax.

I'll just keep more of my stuff up in the bedroom. I think a standard flat head screw driver would have been the best tool for the job. Although if the door latch mechanism failed and I couldn't pop it, I'd really be in trouble. :) I better keep a pry-bar and an axe in the closet.

I'm going to do some work on that door though. I may plane it down so it could be removed once I pop the pins from the hinges. I also want to get a good set of door knobs on there. These cheap ones are made out of that crappy metal that is closer to plastic than metal. Everything is just stripped to hell.
 
Interior doors are made of slightly thicker tissue paper, i've broken many of them accedentally (punched through two on purpose). Believe me you don't need anything special to get through those doors unless you don't have full use of your hands and/or legs.
 
have none of u guys heard of the credit card trick???? :eek: :eek: :eek: i can open up a door (not dead bolt) with this in less then 10 sec. faster than i could pick the lock :cool:
 
The credit card trick doesn't work when the door opens towards you, but in that case you can open the lock with a coat hanger, nail file or pointy stick.

I had a bad case in college. A bunch of students were living on the top floor of the old Mission Inn hotel in Riverside. While this was only the third floor the first floor ceiling was about 15 feet high so I would guess that we were up around 35 feet. We had a sort of RA watching over us who had a real bratty 5 year old. One of the girls was supposed to be keeping an eye on him. He locked himself in a bat room using on of those bolts that slides out when you twist a knob. There is no access to the bolt from the outside and it is pretty strong. The bolt was old and the gear on it was warn. The kid couldn't get the bolt to withdraw when he turned it.

I climbed out a neighboring window to climb along a ledge and then discovered that the bathroom window was one of those tip-out transom types. I had to use my 5-blade Scout knife to unscrew the hinges before I could climb in. Then I had to disasseble the lock from the inside to get the gears back into allignment. I haven't been without a SAK or Scout knife for 45 years. Mine stays in my pants pocket when I hang them up so I can always find it and it is always in the bedroom.
 
WadeF said:
Well, I tend to disarm myself when I'm downstairs. I leave my knives, SAK's, etc, on my desk. I guess I should just keep everything in my pocket, but at the end of the day I like to remove everything as it's more comfortable. :) Kind of like taking your shoes off and letting your feet air out and relax.
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I see. I just take my pants off soon as I get home and wear a necker or clip something to my boxers. ;)
 
when i was 13-14 or so i went to the basement to watch, ummm, disney movies. well, they had just put carpet down there and forgot to trip the carpet from around the door way so when i shut the door it shut tight, i could have pushed it open on the other side but i could not have pulled it open.

i called for my parents and my mother came to the door and yailed,"you got your self stuck you can wait for your dad to come home in a few hours to get you out". she's really lazy and if comming down stairs to push on a door was to much of a inconvience to her tv time than i would have to find another way out. so i grabed a sand wedge out of a old golf bag and went to town for about 30 minutes. when i was done i walked though the door :D

luckly the door was a pos any way, several months before my dad had a bright idea of making a indoor shooting range for bows and bb guns. it worked fine for the bb guns for probably a few hours until the towls that he had stuffed in some boxes settled to the bottom and we unknowengly put about 150 rounds in to the next room. the bows on the other hand were a down right bad idea. the first shot was with a old long bow, it went inside the boxes but did not get to the door. the compound bow was alittle stronger, we pulled the arrows out of the next wall.
 
glad everything turned out okay wade. very good suggestions in this thread. kabar: your dad used towels and a box for a backstop? even if they were cloth towels how did they "sag" to the bottom... even a fully packed box would not have been a good idea, what if someone was in the other room??
 
I usually keep my knives and Leathermans in another room but after reading this thread I may start keeping a multi with me in the Bedroom, Also I may try to get one of those Fire axes like firefighters have and keep it in the Bedrrom incase of Fire or other Emergencys.
 
shpshooter said:
Interior doors are made of slightly thicker tissue paper, i've broken many of them accedentally (punched through two on purpose). Believe me you don't need anything special to get through those doors unless you don't have full use of your hands and/or legs.
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You're not trying to imply that my door is constructed in this way are you?
 
kabar: your dad used towels and a box for a backstop? even if they were cloth towels how did they "sag" to the bottom... even a fully packed box would not have been a good idea, what if someone was in the other room??
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he just loosly threw several in some boxes, after a few hours of bbs hitting them they "collapsed" or "settled" in to the bottom. weve done that tons of times, both using towls or news papers. bb guns dont have that much power behind them to do any real penetration. but i do admit the compound bow wasent the brightest of ideas.

as for other people at the time room had not been remodled so there was nothing but most of a olds cutlass dissasembled in boxes and some ford big block 460s and 429s in that room. no body except for us used or even goes in to the basement because of the huge assed spiders that we find from time to time. shortly after we shot up the door we carped it to turn it in to a bedroom but never finished triming the carpet, hints my delima lol.
 
Hi All-

That scenario gave me perfect justification for door-breaching rounds for my Vang Comp Remington 870 Police Magnum...

~ Blue Jays ~
 
Glad to hear you made it out ok, thats not a fun position to be in.

I once got stuck behind a door that locks with a key on both sides, and locks automatically when it closes. The key was in the far side, in the door, and nobody else was around. Since it was a pretty solid door and all I had was a small SAK, I just checked where the studs in the wall by the door were, then made a hella-mess putting my arm through the drywall.

It only took one trip to the hardware store to get a new lock, and some patching materials to permanetly fix the problem(s).
 
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