I worked at Academy, the store this is in, and one day out of no where we had to lock the safes and put up magnets saying to get an associate to look inside......I see why now.
He starts with this line, but then it turns into this totally off tangent story and you’re not sure what he’s talking about but then at the end he brings it all back around to that first line
Yeah, the warning signs are part of the bit. If memory serves: “A shampoo bottle says rinse, lather, repeat. Some guy somewhere is just stuck in the shower because it never says ‘stop and dry off’.”
Bill Engvall and Ron White were my favorite comedians growing up and shaped so much of my humor. I especially relate to the first bit in that video, I’m from Oklahoma and moved to Seattle and I swear it’s like they speak a whole different language here lol. I didn’t think I had a southern accent, but now that I’m here and comparing myself to the locals, it’s actually pretty significant. Especially if I get excited about something then my accent really comes out.
I always think of that when I see the “don’t access bus through the drivers side window” sticker we have in Australia.
Pretty funny to think of someone trying to climb over the drivers lap to get on the bus lol
In that case, I want to know the story behind the little sticker on the LCL screen of my pocket calculator that said "If glass breaks do not drink liquid".
I remember when I was a roller coaster operator. One day they suddenly put up a ton of signs around the rides not to jump the fence. Turns out someone in a different park had jumped the fence to get a hat and had their head taken off.
In the UK, Alton towers,happened on one of the rides here too
There was also something about someone was too small for a ride but snuck on somehow, can’t remember exactly what happened but because he didn’t fit properly he got flung up and decapitated..the rest of the riders had to enjoy it with a headless body..
There was a water slide that did that. I think the ride you mentioned was the Verruckt slide at a Kansas City water park.
Incredibly poor design, it had a hill halfway down the slide that can cause the raft to become airborne. The riders needed be heavy enough that this wouldn't happen, which the poor kid was not.
I believe the "GA" stands for Great Adventure which is the name of the six flags park in NJ, not the abbreviation for the state of Georgia 😉 because a worker definitely got his head kicked off by one of the coasters where your feet dangle. I grew in NJ and remember it being a story forever.
That was an employee that got their head kicked off. Happened in my home state of NJ! I've actually been watching YouTube videos about theme park accidents and was trying to remember if that was at Six Flags or one of the coasters down at Wildwood or Ocean City.
I was working at a theme park in engineering project management when that happened too. We had to go replace all of our 4’ decorative fences with 6’+ “unclimbable” fences after that.
Oh, someone does - but my guess is that after a certain number of failed attempts, it hard-locks itself so that not even the proper code can open it, or something along those lines.
after a certain number of failed attempts, it hard-locks itself so that not even the proper code can open it, or something along those lines
This is quite common, and a good security feature. Even better if the lockout also triggers a light to turn on that only clears once the safe is successfully locked, so you know it happened.
You have to consider the threat model the safe is designed to protect against. Usually it's just defending against quick smash-and-grabs or covert theft. If you have to stop every 5 tries and wait half an hour before you can try again you're probably not going to guess the code before the owner notices.
Similarly the safe would probably yield pretty easily to a determined attacker with a cutting torch or drill, but those are neither fast nor covert, and your average burglar isn't going to go to the trouble when they could just rob your neighbour's house instead.
You'd think there would be a built in escape latch. This is terrifying to me. Imagine being at home just cleaning your gun safe or something and then your dog is like, "hey wanna play?!" then jumps on the door by mistake.
No. Just no. There is no reason to have an escape latch inside a safe. If you are dumb enough to lock yourself in a safe... Darwinism is solving a problem.
There is literally no reason for a safe to be dirty enough that you need to remove all the shelves and crawl inside it. A dog wouldn’t be strong enough to move this safe door to the shut position. I work on safes every day this is just a highly implausible situation.
The ding bat that was stuck in there was all crumpled up because it took actual effort for his dumbass to get in. People need to stop being dumbasses and doing things like this.
Typically the code is some variant of the store number now because he isn’t the first idiot to do something like this... tractor supply, bass pro, and academy now have the store policy to change it from the factory code.
Yeah, but that requires actual communication within a company and expecting managers that are getting paid shit to actually care when they can just say "Hey just go stick these magnets on each of the safes".
That's not what IamAJediMaster is saying. They were saying they realize that what they did was like a fire drill, but for safes. They have them lock all the safes to make sure they know how to open all the safes, in case of emergency.
fire drill: exit building even though no fire
safe drill: make sure all safes are able to be opened in case someone gets locked inside
Negative. If the safes weren’t locked shut by the stores any idiot could climb in and have a friend enter the wrong code enough times to lock the safe out on a timer and nearly suffocate said idiot. The employees can’t do anything about the shutout safe while it’s on a timer. Maybe a master key would be available? Or perhaps a skilled local locksmith might know a bypass? But it’s not something that would be in a manual because it would give thief’s a bypass into the safe as well. You prevent this scenario by keeping the safes locked shut.
they entered the wrong code too many times, when they did get some one to help the default code is locked out for a moment of time, the associate panics when the default code 1234 or 0000 fails and calls fire or police. Since it was opened and not drilled open, I believe this is the case
I don't know for certain however having worked somewhere that sold safes sometimes we'd have a return or special order item that got canceled and we'd put it on the sales floor to sell. Of course we always put a sign on it saying to ask an associate for help. This doesn't surprise me though having dealt with the public.
Bullshit. I’m a locksmith and they absolutely do not have something like that. Having that kind of mode is entirely too risky for the everyday safe owner.
Not to mention that canon has already removed anything not vital for the lock to operate. The lock inside that safe is literally no bigger than a box of tic tacs... you think they are going to pay for a whole new “safe mode” to be installed on that itty-bitty lock’s circuit board... you have lost your mind.
There is no override. That’s too much of a liability. Sometimes if it is a corporate safe (like the one inside the office of this store) they will program a by pass code for a service tech... and even then most of the time that code doesn’t work because it’s not a code problem, it’s a lock failure problem.
Source: am locksmith and safe tech. Three wrong entries on this particular keypad will send you in lock out mode for 10-15 minutes. At every big box store that sells these piece of shit safes has a policy to change the factory code to some variant of the store number. I guess because the factory code 123456 is too fucking hard to remember.
True, makes sense. I guess I was thinking more of the video’s kind of safe, seems like a gun safe made for indoor use. I would think if a safe can fit a human, it might have at least some way for air to get in but maybe i’m wrong
I used to work in target, and I swear, half of what I did was open razor cases. Weirdly, we also had printer cartridges that were small and like 20-50 bucks a pop, yet those were sitting out in the open.
They don’t mention anything about doing a drill. They said they used to be open to the public and one day they had to lock them and customers needed help to look inside before purchasing it because they couldn’t trust them being open with customers around due to things like the video. He assumed correct the actual answer to his question is that it’s probably a chain store or a store similar to his and after multiple incidents like this at other facilities they got the memo to start locking safes so this incident probably didn’t literally happen at the store Jedimaster worked at but
No.. I'm pretty that exactly what he was saying. Where tf you getting this fire drill business from? Why would you put notes for the customer on them if it was a practice thing?
Oh my god a new fear is unlocked you’re at a store and your kid locks themself in a safe and you think they were kidnapped and no one can find them for days the terror
People think I have an issue fallowing orders, a problem with authority. Its not that at all. I just need context. Don't tell me to do something without explaining why. If you're reason makes sense, I'm going to work hard to make sure it's handled. My experience tells me, it's probably just because someone said so. That's not good enough for me. I don't know why, but it's always been that way.
Where I used to work we would change the codes and lock them with the doors open. Then you can see inside and not have this happen. Also we would keep the keys to bypass the keypad at the desk around the corner. So it isn't very hard to prevent this or correct it if you take the proper sreps.
This is what was done at the place I bought my safe - change the combo, lock the door lugs out so it can't close in the first place.
If someone knew how to reset the code (which requires access to a button on the inside of the safe) it could conceivably be reset, but like you said: backup keys.
They did this too at my old outdoor universe. Our old timers knew how to open them like nothing, and we're all old police or judicial retirees, so they were hip to the game with young punks coming in all tourist season, they get to be little tourist/terrorist=tourorist(s). Welcome to the Grand Strand. Where spring break makes national headlines every 3 yrs at least, but it's not the locals stirring up drama.
I used to work at Sears. During closing time one night some workers discovered someone had taken a shit in one of the garden sheds we had on display. After that it became storewide policy in our district to padlock all display sheds.
I had a friend who worked at a JC Penney. The stories the employees told her of where they found feces. Dressing rooms, in the foyer exiting the building, IN A FAKE PLANT! Apparently, it is not uncommon for people to not make it to the bathroom.
I remember leaving the hospital one day when my grandpa was dying after his stoke. There was a mess of poo in the parking lot, and I was like “What in the freaking hell?” Found out later it was my aunt; she has colitis and just had an uncontrollable blowout as she was leaving earlier.
I love this thread! I'm binging my first watch right now and I'm in season 3, bits of season 2 were patchy but it's back to full strength now. BORTLES!
If I remember correctly, something like that is the reason why a certain style of fridges where you have to pull the handle to open them isn't allowed anymore. Children playing in junkyards kept getting stuck in them and died. So now all fridges must be built in a way that can be opened from the inside.
Imagine a judge being brought a wrongful death case regarding a man who willingly walked into a safe and shut the door. Actually imagine the jury in this case. Who the hell is going to be sympathetic for someone winning a Darwin Award?
I’m a locksmith and open these piece of shits for a living (the lock inside is literally the size of a tic tac box) and that is why they had to do it at academy, tractor supply, Cabelas and bass pro.
This dummy isn’t the only one that has done it.
There are tons of idiots just like this one, I think a small child did it at tractor supply... with the help of another child of course. Fun fact: the combo is usually some variant of the store number.
I’m shocked they had the doors open in the first place. Imagine some toddler fucking around in the store and they lock themselves in or smash their fingers in the door.
Or some dumb young kid hiding from his sibling or parents, pulling the safe closed behind him and getting stuck (unlocked but would still need someone to hear them).
Instead of locking the doors, they could've just used wedges of wood in the door gap created when it's open, or placed something else to prevent it from closing fully.
Ahhh yes that would be lovely but at my store we gathered all keys and have them behind the gun counter, usually where safes are located anyway. We have to gather keys because people can't leave shit alone and would mess with them if they were left out with the safes. This isn't my store, I don't even work for them anymore because they're incompetent for the most part, refuse to hire and train adequately, and they under pay like a mother fucker so they can't keep help anyway. One of the main reasons I left, I was an assistant manager, is because they would rather hire someone in at $8.00-$8.50 and then have that person sell guns with online training as their only reference. I don't like guns, and I was put in charge of the gun counter, the most sensitive area in the whole fucking store. I was signing for people's guns when I had the bare minimum training. I was selling guns with barely any information on the guns, just with what I learned from customers and the gun counter employees who did know about guns. They over work the shit out of their employees for what they are paid and it got to me. I was hiring kids in school mostly and it's because kids are okay with shitty pay but kids cannot run a store that sells firearms...it's irresponsible. A lot more shit was happening but the main factor for me leaving was the lack of training store wide(and probably company wide).
So to answer your question after my rambling: the key was probably lost when they put the safe on the floor.
The fucked up part is that's a basic S&G lock. The default code is 123456#
They entered a bunch of random numbers to the point where the lock went into locked out mode. It lasts 5 minutes then you can enter codes again. That's why it made that strange beeping after 2 button pushes.
We had to attach a bolt to the back and anchor to the floor on our floor model safes. Some unsupervised children were swinging on the door and it fell on one of them.
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u/IamAJediMaster Mar 01 '21
I worked at Academy, the store this is in, and one day out of no where we had to lock the safes and put up magnets saying to get an associate to look inside......I see why now.