Emergency call

[Raymond]

I had an emergency call yesterday. It seems the real estate leasing agent tried the electronic key box and found that the battery was dead. She couldnt get the house key out. The agents company called us and said that the renters were impatiently standing there and the moving truck with their furniture was in town and on the way. I was dispatched and instructed to only pick open the door and make one copy of the existing key.

After about 20 minutes of traffic delays I finally got there. Walking up to the door I noticed that it was a Kwikset Smart Key. Now I am not a happy camper as these do not just pick open that easily. They arent that easy to make the existing key for either.

So, with great finess, I tried the door and it was open!

And the keys were in the sink.

Everyday I pray to be lucky more often than just good.

[GWiens2001]

Nice one, Raymond.

At the dealership I work at, if anyone gets keys locked in a car, they come get me. One time I was at lunch, so they had an hour of tearing up the weatherstripping on the door and scratching the paint before I got back from lunch. When I got back, before I could even put down my lunch bag, they called me over. I looked at the driver's door they had been tearing up, walked to the left rear door (two feet from where they were monkeying around), and opened the unlocked back door.

The moral of the story - ALWAYS see if any doors are unlocked.

Gordon

[ice_man]

i once came to a empty house on a cold and rainy night that needed the locks changed for the following morning and i cant remember exactly what lock was on it but it was a good one so while im on my knees in the rain my friend who was with me walks round the back to find a open window climes through and finds all the keys in the kitchen and that was a big relief after a very long day and a lot of traveling another one i recall was the same thing empty house that needed the locks opening and changing so the front door was wooden with a era fortress lock witch i really really hate so i walked round the back to look at the back door it was a pvc door that had been hung the wrong way so the internal beading was on the outside very bad practice but happy for me a thin screw driver an about a minute later i was in snapped an cut both locks times money in this game now i always look for an alternative before actually working on the lock

[cledry]

I had a call last night to open a pair of handcuffs on a stripper at a local gentleman's club. Beat that.

[Locks+Picks_Happy]

I had a call last night to open a pair of handcuffs on a stripper at a local gentleman's club. Beat that.

That must have been an interesting show. Paid in singles?

[CMS_SAFECRAKR1]

I had a call last night to open a pair of handcuffs on a stripper at a local gentleman's club. Beat that.

That must have been an interesting show. Paid in singles?

well played! +1

[cledry]

I actually didn't go. I thought it was a prank call because I wasn't on call so our phones were not forwarded to me. Someone called me that knew my cell number. I saved the message on my phone to share with the guys the next day. When I shared it, the on call guy said it was a real job and he told them to call me. Nice of him to give me a heads up beforehand.

[MatrixBlackRock]

I had a call last night to open a pair of handcuffs on a stripper at a local gentleman's club. Beat that.

I have a client who operates a few titty bars here in SFL, a couple of years back he came within inches of having one of his liquor licenses revoked because of a drug raid, turned out a couple of his dancers where dealing on-the-job to police undercover agents.

The problem was brought to a halt by installing a number of low light Sony color CCTV cameras, some visible in plain view, but most of them are hidden out of sight.

When he or one of the bouncers monitors something suspicious, the girl is brought to the office shown the video and fired, this shakes up the rest of them enough to keep the dealing and other illegal activities to a minimum.

Well one afternoon I'm in the security room replacing a flaked out monitor which is part of a bank of 22 monitors I installed and while standing back taking in the "full view" I notice a guy and a dancer going to a booth for a lap dance, the guy looked familiar, I hit a couple of buttons on the Pelco switcher and brought the image up the main 27 inch monitor and zoomed the camera in a little tighter and yes it was, who I thought it was.

Turned out the guy was a well known pastor here in Fort Lauderdale who just happened to have been at the time on a well publicized mission to get the City of Fort Lauderdale City Commission to outlaw those "dens of sin" (his words) known as titty bars within the city, one of which was owned by my client. I thought it was uniquely odd that this pastor had no qualms about visiting and being served in a club outside of the City of Fort Lauderdale, but wanted those same clubs within the city limits shut down.

None the less their activities made for some seriously good video, which just happened to get e-mailed to every media outlet in SFL, while he was still at the bar drinking lunch.

By the end of the following day, he was removed from the pulpit by the elders and probably wasn't even allowed to sleep in the doghouse at home.

Wayne

[dll932]

A few years ago I worked for a local 'smith and one day I got a call from a gal who sounded quite young: "Um, can you make keys for a chastity belt?" I said "Sure." She said "would it bother you that I"m basically naked from the waist down?" "That's OK, we'll throw a towel over the naughty bits!" "Alright, let me call you back." That was the last I heard from her. It may have been a prank but I'll never know.

It occurred to me later that if I'd gone on such a call, it would have been wise to have another person with me as a witness.

[Sinifar]

On that -- this smells bad. I have had a few of these over the years, and always took my wife along, if nothing else just to be there. Never walk into this type of situation without first thinking it thru. IT could be a set up for a robbery.

TWO - never go out at night without packing, and total situational awareness. If you value your life and your business, take these calls very carefully, too many smiths got caught in a trap and lost their work vehicles, and a couple got shot at.

Be careful out there.

Sinifar

[CMS_SAFECRAKR1]

On that -- this smells bad. I have had a few of these over the years, and always took my wife along, if nothing else just to be there. Never walk into this type of situation without first thinking it thru. IT could be a set up for a robbery.

TWO - never go out at night without packing, and total situational awareness. If you value your life and your business, take these calls very carefully, too many smiths got caught in a trap and lost their work vehicles, and a couple got shot at.

Be careful out there.

Sinifar

I carry everywhere, every time (except for government,schools, or hospital jobs of course).