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Originally Posted by Scout
One time i accidentally flushed my truck key down the toilet, while the truck sat outside running with the ac on.
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I had taken my truck to the alignment shop, where I had to take my door key off and put it with the ignition key. When I got the truck back, I forgot to put my door key back on my keyring.
I had just unloaded at the mall. I parked my truck down on the lot, and decided to leave the engine running while I went in to eat some overpriced supper, since it was late fall, and getting cold after dark.
When I came back out, I realized my mistake. Locked out. Nothing on my back but a flannel shirt, since my coat was in the truck. Getting cold fast. Greeeeaaat.
So I went up in the trailer and took inventory. One broken pallet, and a length of green plastic pallet strap material. How can I break into my truck with this?
I tried to pry up the knob with the green plastic strap, but I couldn't get it to bend at the right angle. I tried various other things. What I wound up doing was propping the pallet up against my truck (it was a cabover) to stand on while I beat the ever-loving hell out of the quarter window on the passenger side. I figured if I had to break a window, that would be the one I could most live without.
As it turned out, I popped it open without breaking it, and gained entry in short order.
The most disturbing thing about this whole experience is that while I spent about an hour obviously and purposefully breaking into this truck, none of the cops or security people who were constantly circling the property ever gave me a second look. I could have been breaking in there to rob the truck or kill the driver, but nobody seemed the slightest bit concerned.
I got another crash course in breaking and entry when some sixwheeler backed in in front of me and locked his keys in his truck. I couldn't get out of the dock until he moved, and he couldn't move until he got into the cab. He was waiting on someone from his company an hour away to come up and deal with it for him, but I had a schedule to keep, dammit, and I HAD TO GO.
After much experimentation with coat hangers and the like, I grabbed the button on the outside of his quarter window with my Vise-Grips, and managed to turn the whole thing far enough to pop the window.
I think the moral of the story is that quarter windows are not very secure. Come to think of it, my current truck doesn't even have them, I don't think. That's probably a good thing.