January 2009
Going Equipped
I was rudely disturbed by a loud knock on my door, to announce that a fire had broken out in my block of flats (apartments) and since I had been trapped by smoke on the top floor only a couple of months before I was so anxious to get out in a hurry I left my keys behind and the door latched behind me.
I though that a friend had a spare set to let me back in, but after a wasted taxi journey it turned out she had not.
What to do? Well fortunately I did have my Leatherman Juice in a pouch on my belt. The knife blade was sufficient to pierce a hole big enough in the outside layer of the door to get the saw blade in, which made quick work of making a hole big enough to start on the inner layer. I then made short work of that too, making a hole just big enough to get my arm through to unlatch the door.
I used to carry a SAK, but the Leatherman seems to have better tools. I am glad I did not have one of those cheap imitations anyhow as I needed something that could really cut.
Trouble is I wonder what the two policemen, who were on duty because of the fire, thought of it all. Were my skills at burglary just a little too perfect?
Larry A.
Coventry, UK
OK, you voyeur, you. Enough of reading other people's stories. It's time you told your own tale of gripping heroism or even just neat DIY'ism. We know there's a Shakespeare in you somewhere. Don't make us use the Steens to find it.