# The case of the bent key

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 6, 2014, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-case-of-the-bent-key/690178 "2014-06-06T04:41:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![LC\_Strawhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e19adc/32.png) [@LC\_Strawhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LC_Strawhouse)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2014, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-case-of-the-bent-key/690178/21 "2014-06-07T02:06:38Z")

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Salt/water on the table + humid night = lots of overnight corrosion (it can happen that quickly)

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**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_York](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f6c823/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_York](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_York)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2014, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-case-of-the-bent-key/690178/22 "2014-06-07T02:20:24Z")

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> [@Senegoid](#):
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> Actually, Spock said that, during one of his time-traveling sojourns. (It was in that Star Trek re-boot movie a couple years ago.) I’m thinking that Sherlock Holmes must have heard that and picked up on it.
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> Actually, the OP’s title does sound like a Sherlock Holmes story, doesn’t it?

Yes, I have been watching “Elementary” a lot recently, but I think Jonathon Creek would be the best bet to solve this.

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**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2014, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-case-of-the-bent-key/690178/23 "2014-06-07T13:49:51Z")

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> [@Duke\_of\_York](#):
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> So by Sherlocks logic the truth must be that I bent the key removing it from the lock,  
> no ghosts, no Yuri Gellor, no supernatural forces, just plain old garden variaty human error.

To be fair, its likely to be the case. Unless you think your wife did it.

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**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2014, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-case-of-the-bent-key/690178/24 "2014-06-07T15:07:14Z")

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> [@](#):
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> Yuri Gellor

[Uri Geller](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uri_geller)

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