I recall an episode of Moonlighting once where Maddie and David were escaping from some goons, and they shoved a bunch of pennies between the door and doorjamb, on the knob side of the door, rendering it near impossible to open, with goons being on the un-openable side. Can this really work? If so, I know a few people I would like to “jam” up. lol
It’ll work, but IIRC, the pennies need to be on the hinge side of the door.
Tried that. One real good shove and it will open, tearing the hell out of the wood and requiring cosmetic repairs to the jamb.
Works best on the knob side, you may need a hammer.
(Take THAT sentence out of context, I dare you…)
Ok, hinge side, but is that on the side of the door where the hinge pins are visible or the other side? And if it’s a metal dorr with a metal frame, I imagine it would be extremely difficult to open.
The side where the hinge pins are visible. True, a metal door would suck trying to open after this (Anthracite digs out her cordless Dremel with cutting bit, her MAPP gas torch, and her Lok-Breaker™ and starts to go to work…)
Um, pardon me for stating the obvious, but aren’t both sides of the door the “knob” side? Wait, lemme check. Yep. All the ones around here have knobs on both sides. Makes it much easier to get in and out of rooms.
Ok, then, correction, the EDGE with the knob.
If the knob is on the edge then how the hell do you close the door?
::ducking and running::
The best way to make this work is to tape two stacks of about 5 pennies each together…get a friend/accomplice, and while one of you leans on the door HARD, the other slips the penny stacks between the door and the jamb. I once pennied in an entire dorm…the folks on the first floor had to climb out their windows and start letting everybody else out.
A most excellent and evil trick. Heavy doors and metal door frames make for a a mini prison.
Done properly(with the right amount of pennies) the door can’t be opened from either side. It would take a screwdriver and the previously mentioned leverage on the door to free the occupants.
We did this in college. We were up drinking late one night and decided to penny two guys into their room. Well, we put an exceptional amount of pennies into the space between the door frame and the door. Once we completed that we resumed our drinking festivities and promptly forgot about those two guys. It was Summer School so nearly everyone had early class and got up and left. Being Summer School the University had decided in their infinite wisdom that we did not need phones in the room. So these two guys are stuck in their room on the 2nd floor with no one to help them and no bathroom. I think someone returned around 1 pm to finally let them out.
In short if you do this and don’t hate the people you are doing it to, remember to let them out after a little while.
As funny as it may seem…don’t every do this to someone who isn’t on the first floor. If for some freak reason, a fire were to break out, you’d have the rest of your lives to contemplate the fact that you killed a bunch of people as a prank.
Jman
Sorry to bust the fun of this thread, but it really is something people don’t think about. If you penny someone in a 6th floor room and you forget about them, and a fire breaks out, they’re dead.
It’s easy, you just have to realize that the door is not there.
“Hey, there ain’t no door here! That’s ajar!”
Buddubump-ptshh!
It’ll work. It was done to an acquaintance of mine in high school. Boy, was he pissed.
Related hint: Sticking a wedge in the OTHER side of the door (the non-hinge-pin side) keeps doors open. Very helpful when you have a door that swings shut and locks itself.