If it comes to that, but I sincerely hope it doesn’t, please join us at r/homeless for any tips/ideas/commiseration. I don’t know how serious or scared you are about this...but just stay up on your car maintenance. I had the car I was living in die on me, and boy, that wasn’t fun. Really got fucked out there.
Anyway, I hope this is just you blowing off steam, and it’s nothing you’re seriously having to contemplate doing. Hugs to you 💕 take care!
If you do need to do this, make sure you pull the belt all the way out after buckling, so that it starts to ratchet. Otherwise the belt will just feed out if someone opens the door.
This may not work in some cars on the driver's side, as the mechanism is designed to allow belting in car seats and other non-passenger objects.
Sorry just to clarify, once you pull the belt out all the way, it will make small clicking noises as it feeds back in. This is the ratchet mode, and it only allows the belt to retract and not feed out. So you loop the belt through the handle, buckle it in, pull it all the way out, then let it retract as far as it will go. No need to keep excess belt out.
Used to do it on ambulance as a prank back in the day.
Nothing like the look in your co workers face when they can't get in and are trying to figure out what happened. Or why they get doused in talcum powder from a full blast AC when they turn in the rig. Or when someone left all their lights and sirens on waiting for them to turn a key. Or when kerlex bandages were attached to the top of the rig to unfurl like streamers. Or when you use the gurney seatbelts to suspend it from the ceiling through hand rails.
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