OT-had one of those Barney Fife moments today..

[morgan in nm]

Just got back from school, started gathering some tractor parts in the barn and the darn door blew closed and locked. It is amazing how tough a few 1" wood screws can be when your trying to kick the door down after an hour of waiting. I never did break it down and lucked out a while later when I heard somebody walking around outside and they let me out.

[JReed]

man that must of sucked. Glad someone came along and let you out before you had to hang out to much longer.

[rjohns94]

glad you got out and that someone came along

[piller]

Even if you feel foolish, at least you are OK and can tell about it. We all have had those sort of moments, but it still is funny when it isn't you it happens to.

[AJMD429]

When I was a kid one of the town deputys locked himself in the back of his squad car when checking out something in the cemetery. I think it took a couple decades for that laughter to settle down, and I'm sure he still gets some ribbing on it.

[kimwcook]

I've heard the stories of the deputy who got locked in the back of his cruiser....and, he wasn't alone. Now that would be hilarious. Not good for business and I'm not condoning it for one minute. But I'd love to find him in there.

[Hillbilly]

I locked myself outta the house once. Nearest set of keys was at a scout camp and the kid would not answer the phone...other nearest keys were 4 states away.

Now this is Memorial Day weekend. It's getting dark. I try all the doors and windows. The neighbor let me use a phone...called every lock smith for 50 miles... they all are away for the weekend. Tried the fire department... no help there, nor the sherriff...they wont pick a lock for anyone...afraid of getting sued.

I can get to my tools in the barn... 32 oz ball peen hammer. Now ...what window to break? The smallest window in the house was a sidelight by the front door.
OK.... wham. Not hard enough....WHAM...WHAM... double E glass is tough.

Call a glass guy the next day to get a pane cut. He tells me he will come out... and he does. Puts a plexiglass in the hole. The window is one peice divided with a plastic grill.... about 6" x 28" or so.

The smallest window in the house cost me nearly $300 to fix. It took two weeks to get the pane made up and installed. I guess there is no such thing as a "stock" pane for the sidelight.

Next time I'll just stay in the barn and beg the neigbors for eats till someone comes home.

Hill

[Kansas Ed]

didja have one bullet in your pocket?

[Ysabel Kid]

Could be worse - you could live in Alaska, or some other cold place, and have been locked in an unheated area!

[Bogie35]

I once tested my electric dog fence barefooted right after a soaking rain.
Even though I only had about 200 feet of wire set out, the charger was designed to power 6 miles of cattle fencing!
The dogs saw what it did to me, and I don't think they ever touched it!

bogie

[kimwcook]

Bogie, I don't think I'd be telling anyone that story.

[Bogie35]

Bogie, I don't think I'd be telling anyone that story.

LOL!

At least I didn't wee wee on it!

[jeepnik]

Do you know that if you neighbor's dog keep peeing on your roses, you can run some copper wire through the bushes, and set a metal mesh grid on the ground. Hook them up to the hot and neutral on a 110 circuit. Teh dog will "NEVER" come in your yard again. Frozen paintball pellets work well for the other that keep dumping on your grass.

[AJMD429]

I've heard the stories of the deputy who got locked in the back of his cruiser....and, he wasn't alone. Now that would be hilarious. Not good for business and I'm not condoning it for one minute. But I'd love to find him in there.

As a young teenager, I used to roam the hills, and predictably, on Sunday morning, there would be a sheriff's cruiser down in the neighbor's beanfield, the deputy and some woman prone in the back seat 'exercising' - I often wondered what kind of 'gun crimes' he'd have dreamed up to charge me with if I'd have wandered down there with my .22 (after all, it was a "semiautomatic" one, so I was obviously a budding terrorist).

[morgan in nm]

didja have one bullet in your pocket?

I didn't have anything but an old tractor head that I kept trying to swing at the door so the door would break. Still wouldn't budge. No windows either. In fact, I insulated it fairly well to keep the mice and bugs out because it was my old feed shed with steel floor. At least its NM. The temps are still in the mid-40s so I wouldn't have froze to death. I will replace that lock with one that opens on the inside as well as the outside. Darn glad my students didn't see me

[Griff]

I've heard the stories of the deputy who got locked in the back of his cruiser....and, he wasn't alone. Now that would be hilarious. Not good for business and I'm not condoning it for one minute. But I'd love to find him in there.

As a young teenager, I used to roam the hills, and predictably, on Sunday morning, there would be a sheriff's cruiser down in the neighbor's beanfield, the deputy and some woman prone in the back seat 'exercising' - I often wondered what kind of 'gun crimes' he'd have dreamed up to charge me with if I'd have wandered down there with my .22 (after all, it was a "semiautomatic" one, so I was obviously a budding terrorist).

And then there's the Deputy that checked out on a car stop (no location), not heard from again for over 45 minutes... a "Search" was being organized when a citizen called in to HQ to complain that some deputy was parked in front of her house, "staring off into space..." Seems he'd issued a ticket, returned to his running unit, tossed his handheld on the seat, and as he started to slide into the seat hit the door locks... when his subject startled him and he jumped back out, closing the driver's door!

[handirifle]

Once when I was a teen, our next door neighbor had installed an electric fence to keep his horses in, but didn't always have it on. he used to let me take bullfrogs from his pond. So one day I was headed to the pond and touched the fence, quickly, to see if it was on. No zap. satisfied it was off I proceeded to climb over......you guessed it, that day I learned they are PULSE fences.

I'm not sure what hurt worse, having my crotch straddling the wire or hitting the ground on my shoulder afterwards!!!!

[bogus bill]

I have a real "Fife" story. There is a old man here in town who told me about a deceased uncle he had that was named Earl Fife. Anyway he was sheriff of iron county somewhere around the 1930s? He got a call out near the nevada/ utah border near pinoce. A man and woman somehow got the drop on him. At first they were going to shoot him, but decided rather to handcuff him around a cedar tree. They left him there. It soon came apparant to him he would die out there in the boonies unless he could free himself. It took him several days, but he was able to get a sharp stone at the base of the tree and used it to hack and cut branchs off the tree as he climbed it to the top and drop off! The couple was later captured or killed on the arizonna strip. They were wanted criminals from back east. The guy told me it was a big story in all the early detective magazines etc many years ago. I tried finding records of it to no avail. I have met one or two other old local boys around here that confirmed they had heard about it too!