Beaten to job by a driller!!

[keepon picking]

Hi everyone,i am a newby to this site,but have been a locky for more years than i wish to remember.yesterday while on a warrent run,i came across the most amazing atempt,to gain access i have ever seen in my life.On my second job of the day ,i arived at the now closed suppermarket,we was after the gas meter,but turning into the car park this guy was stood at the frount door drill in hand.he had already done the elc key box for the shutter good style,and then had atacked the euro cyl with a 13mm drill with he had broken in the lock.he asked if i could help him out as he was strugling.i just went round the back found our meter cupboard and left him to it.but he came round to us and then told me he had got another 10 suppermarkets to go to .
is it me or is there a shortage of lockys .
how are majer companys giving work to these's guys
surly it's high time for us to band together and safe are trade.

[maintenanceguy]

. warrent run,...car park ...elc key box for the shutter ...euro cyl ... meter cupboard

I know all those words, but not in that order. I have to admit I was completely lost by the whole story.

Sometimes it's hard to believe how different English can be on both sides of the Atlantic and I can't find my English to English dictionary.

[digital_blue]

...and I can't find my English to English dictionary.

Funniest thing I've heard all week. Awesome!

db

[Raccoon]

I'm struggling too, but I think he's trying to say that another lockie (why two were called, I don't know) beat him to the job, and was going about attacking the wrong locks when the meter was on the exterior of the building all along.

Was he going to pay for the replacement of the locks he damaged with negligence? I doubt it.

Wonder why the owner of the building wasn't simply called up. Why do you guys have to play repo-man on a commercial storefront is anyone's guess.

[Al]

A supermarket chain recently went bust. Various firms are repossesing or taking over the premises and the now redundant staff kept the keys. Some of these jobs are under time pressure so anybody might be used in desperation.
However, repos here often go to the lowest bidder and not somebody you would describe as a locksmith at all.

As I read it - The driller was changing the locks to repo before the warrant locky arrived.

[Raccoon]

Weird. Nothing like this ever happens in the US, ever.

[panalman]

Weird. Nothing like this ever happens in the US, ever.

Well it does here repos are done by the lowest bidder as AL has pointed out and warrants are done on a daily basis the interest rates are at a high so there is loads of work to be done in both areas its sad but true.

EPS is the one to stay away from they are a bunch of cheap skates who prey on this area but somehow get the subbies to work fot them I would not as a rule.

[globallockytoo]

Weird. Nothing like this ever happens in the US, ever.

Are you kidding?

[kg4boj]

Nothing like that happens in the US? Monday is my REPO/Forclosure/Evicition day. Even though its rural out here we get plenty of calls like that, and yes we VERY OFTEN fix the fuxored jobs that others try to do.

It is not uncommon for me to find all the locks on a house (rekeyed by a former area locksmith with 0.100 or MORE filed off of the cylinder, and for some reason I've found them with the bottom filed down too... who knows what they were thinking, and there are MANY MANY MANY locks in the area with just one single pin in the very front, not our doing, just another locksmith who thought time was more important than security, negating the fact that just about 1 in 7 keys (kwikset) would open it, had he not filed so much off the lock plugs. when they are filed that much sometimes + - 2 or more cuts can open them...