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    Cieling Access panels

    This happened awhile ago at a jail I was installing cameras in.

    PLEASE, when you are painting and come across an access panel. DO NOT just paint over it. The lock gets gummed up with paint and I have to use my lockpick to open it. Over the course of 25 years and a half dozen coats of paint, the door effectively becomes glued shut, requiring a large crowbar and hammer to get opened. It took me over half an hour just to get one of them open so I could get in and run cable.

    /My lockpick = 18 volt DeWalt drill + Cobalt steel drill bits.
    "Magic sometimes sounds like tape." - The Amazing Johnathan
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    There is a certain logic in doing such a thing to a jail tho.
    I was not hired to respond to those voices.

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    • #3
      Quoth poofy_puff View Post
      There is a certain logic in doing such a thing to a jail tho.
      Yea, but once you get through the 3/4" plaster/steel mesh ceiling, you still have the problem of getting through 6" of reinforced concrete and, since the jail is on the 2nd floor, getting down without killing yourself.

      The doors are also fastened shut with security screws. Those are easier, though still tome consuming to clean out so I can remove them.

      The inmates know that opening them and/or climbing into them counts as an escape attempt. The last guy, who was serving 4 months for bad checks, that did that got 80 months for attempted escape, even though there was no way he could have gotten out through there.
      "Magic sometimes sounds like tape." - The Amazing Johnathan

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      • #4
        Quoth Crosshair View Post
        getting down without killing yourself.
        LOOK MA! NO HANDS!

        *Flying leap out the hole somehow created in the wall*

        *Flop!*

        GAH! PRICKLY BUSHES! OW OW OW!





        *Sadly, a true story. 'Cept change the hole in the wall to a cliff and you got the whole story.
        Now a member of that alien race called Management.

        Yeah, you see that right. Pink. Harness.

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        • #5
          Quoth Crosshair View Post
          Yea, but once you get through the 3/4" plaster/steel mesh ceiling, you still have the problem of getting through 6" of reinforced concrete and, since the jail is on the 2nd floor, getting down without killing yourself.
          Sounds like your place is NOT Alcatraz!
          I was not hired to respond to those voices.

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          • #6
            Quoth poofy_puff View Post
            Sounds like your place is NOT Alcatraz!
            Nope, it's a jail, not a prison.
            "Magic sometimes sounds like tape." - The Amazing Johnathan

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            • #7
              *makes a note not to do that*
              How else is Ceiling Cat going to get in?
              Aerodynamics are for people who can't build engines. --Enzo Ferrari

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