Whoops!

[Huddleston Bass]

My friend and I often went fishing together and had a very good coordination when it came to launching or trailering the boat. However this one time was the first time that my buddy was backing in my boat using my new GMC Blazer. He hollered at me; "How do you lock the doors?". I replied "Just hit the button (Electric)". He backed me in, got out and unhooked the winch rope and was getting back into the GMC when he yelled "The doors are locked!". Well I had several choice words when on the other side of the ramp another boat was backing in. What I didn't tell you is, this was a holiday weekend on Lake Erie and a PUBLIC RAMP. Boats were pulling in like crazy and here we sit, boat in the water, still on the trailer and the darn GMC is locked. I told my friend to start hoofing it and find a phone booth and call my wife to have her bring the extra set of keys. Oh by the way we were 25 miles from the house! While my buddy was hoofing it I noted that the door was not fully closed on the driver's side. I went back to the boat and located my two-fisted screwdriver (Big). I went to the rod box and yanked out the flippin rod that I didn't like to much. Now I was prying the door open on this new GMC with the screwdriver and trying to insert the flippin rod through the door jam. I was trying to hit the switch on the dashboard that would realse the back door. After about 15 or 20 minutes and several attempts, I finally hit it. Several boaters had launch and all made some kind of remark which made me feel real good about the whole thing. I climbed through the back door and unlocked the doors when my buddy arrived back. He told me that my wife was on her way. Well needless to say we parked the GMC and took off to the nearest fishing hole. Keep in mind, the wife doesn't know we had everything under control and were no longer at the ramp! After fishing for about 30 or 40 minutes one of the boats that ramped along side of me hollered, "Hey do you own a gold camaro?". Yep! Well your wife is really Pee'd off. She thought that she went to the wrong ramp but we told her that you finally got the truck unlocked and went fishing. Needless to say, when I got home, after catching many smallmouths, I wasn't in the best of standings.

 

[Bob_VT]

Re: Whoops!

Makes you remember to use a nylon zip tie to hide extra keys under the vehicle doesn't it! Whenever I hunt, fish or just go out "on some adventure" I usually start my day by handing a second set of keys to my partner. Just in case there is also a hidden set for dire emergencies.<br /><br />Bob

 

[Franki]

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I had many ways I used to avoid this. I once had a job fitting alarms/central locking to cars and had become very good at getting into locked cars. (I have a book somewhere here which is an aphabetical listing on how to open any car I had worked on without keys, (and without damage). it also has all the wires colors needed to hotwire any of the cars, (needed for fitting alarms).<br />I imagine this would be very valuable for a car thief, but it was a great help to me in those days for fast fitting.<br /><br />Anyway, with my own cars, I used to keep a piece of nylon packing strip inside a hubcap.. (used to surround boxes during shipping) I could open any of the older cars with one of those strips in about 20 seconds..) much harder on new cars though. to open an old car with this stuff, you fold it in half, and slide the folded end into the door/car body seal.. then by pushing and pulling on the two ends of the strip stickin out, you could loop it over the door lock button and with a sharp tug, the door is open.. (modern cars have either no buttons or bottons that are much harder to grab. (sometimes a bit of blu-tac on the strip in the fold can make it stick to the button, which helps no end.)<br /><br />nowdays I have a key looped onto the bonnet cable behind the grill, if I need it, I lie on my back under the front of the grill and reach up to un-loop it.. <br /><br />and the best bit is that it can't be seen looking for it under the car. (which alot of theives do nowdays.) <br /><br />I have never stolen a vehical, (except for hotwiring my fathers several times when I was 14) so I have never used my knowledge for evil <br /><br />rgds<br /><br />Franki

 

[ebbtide176]

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well at least you caught some fish, and apparently didn't have to forfeit your life(courtesy of spouse) <br />i was thinking how your story might've ended with the guy saying "do you own a GMC?" and then find out the wife had it towed to the local garage where a locksmith was summoned to rekey the locks- meanwhile the state authorities & coastguard were called to investigate a missing person/ stolen boat! (that's what my luck would've been)