Posted on 11/27/2017 6:20:14 AM PST by Morgana
“Rural King just opened near here. Looks like a lot of good stuff.”
Man Store. Guns, free popcorn, blue jeans and the good hard candy.
“Hmmm....comment was on article thread also.”
Yea....I really liked that comment!!! ;)
My gun safe is just that. A safe. No release mechanism inside. None was needed as the the contents prevented even the smallest children from getting inside. Well that was true until that canoeing accident
You might be thinking of “Ulysses and the Dogman”, in the book Sixes and Sevens.
“Whiskey”, said Jim.
“Make it two”, said the dogman.
I’ve liked O. Henry since I was about 7. You can find a complete collection of his stories on Amazon for not very much. I think I paid $2.99 for the complete works on my Kindle.
It can be opened from the inside.
Years ago a nightclub employee got locked inside the walk-in fridge. Screaming & banging on the door did no good; then he shut off the valves on the beer kegs. Within seconds the bartender threw open the door wondering why his taps had gone dry.
A lot more difficult on good old fashion mechanical dial type sergeant and greenleaf locks.
You’d think the store would have the combination. Maybe the paperwork was inside with the kid. But anyone could shut the thing and they’d be up ship Creek.
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Absolutely.
Another person HAD to lock the safe door AFTER it was closed. Primary suspect would be a sibling.
There’s no door release inside a gun safe. Those ARs might open the door late at night and chase people around the neighborhood. They’re just that evil.
thanks for the morning chuckle.
He should have been kinder to sis.
There are lots of kids stupid enough to lock their brother or sister in a gun safe. In fact that's probably the first idea that comes to the mind of a lot of troublemaker kids when they see a gun safe in a store.
We castigate parents from being over protective because they never learn the skills to get by in life and then we castigate them for not keeping them on a leash.
$#!+ happens and kids learn from them.
I was once charged with neglect because, while I was at work on an AFB, my wife had the kids playing out in the yard - as we were all raised - and they decided to play Mommy and Daddy and got in the van and started playing with all the neat levers. Managed to take off the emergency brake and get it out of park and it did a slow roll down the driveway and into the street. When I was a kid, we'd ride our bikes to the local park to swim in the public pool and explore along the river.
You must have a very large canoe!
“I was once charged with neglect because, while I was at work on an AFB, my wife had the kids playing out in the yard - as we were all raised - and they decided to play Mommy and Daddy and got in the van and started playing with all the neat levers. Managed to take off the emergency brake and get it out of park and it did a slow roll down the driveway and into the street. When I was a kid, we’d ride our bikes to the local park to swim in the public pool and explore along the river. “
When we were growing up it was the same. Go outside and play until the street light came on and that meant “get your butt home now”.
However when we were out in public it was a whole other matter. We had to behave and mom watched us like a hawk when we were little. No “horse play” as she called it. This sort of thing, locking a sibling in a safe? You better believe someone would have got their ass beat for that. Rule number #1 was you did not embarrass your parents in public. Parents these days seems to pretend their kids are not even there. Kids scream, yell, run in stores and the parents just talk on cell phones like they are tone deaf to what is going on.
Yes indeed!
Most safes can be locked with the door open and the locking lugs extended. Problem solved.
"He who spares the rod, hates his son" seems to have been forgotten.
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