lol college dorm doors suck

[mugs]

Originally posted by: intogamer

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: Lalakai
ever try the opposite and "penny" the door?

and for the older crowd, a great practical joke was using the 33 rpm albums to pimp people on the other side of the door

Yeah we did that in college. And then shut off power to their room. Since everyone only had cordless phones, all they could do is yell out their window to try to get help.

Explain how this works?

You jam pennies between the door and the door jamb. That pushes the door latch up against the latch plate, and friction makes it almost impossible to turn the door knob.

Or one time we just used rope to tie one guy's door knob to the door knob across the hall. That worked pretty well.

You could get in serious trouble for locking someone in their room though, because of fires and whatnot.

 

[Sukhoi]

Originally posted by: timosyy
At UIUC, the handles are knobs (at least in FAR).

I think all of the dorms are knobs. I can't remember seeing any handles on room doors.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Originally posted by: drinkmorejava
Last night we got bored so we rigged hangers to open doors. Just slip it underneath, catch the handle, and pull. Has everyone done this, or are we just loser engineering students?

It took you until November to figure that out? I don't think you should be calling yourself an engineering student, but loser certainly applies.

 

[nageov3t]

Originally posted by: Lalakai
ever try the opposite and "penny" the door?

and for the older crowd, a great practical joke was using the 33 rpm albums to pimp people on the other side of the door

my sophomore year of college, the guys on my floor did this to our RA several times :laugh:

 

[Juice Box]

Originally posted by: Sukhoi

Originally posted by: timosyy
At UIUC, the handles are knobs (at least in FAR).

I think all of the dorms are knobs. I can't remember seeing any handles on room doors.

6-Pack had em, at least Hopkins did

 

[neutralizer]

I must be a noob, but how the hell do you catch the handle if you slip it under the door?

 

[drinkmorejava]

Originally posted by: her209

Originally posted by: drinkmorejava
Last night we got bored so we rigged hangers to open doors. Just slip it underneath, catch the handle, and pull. Has everyone done this, or are we just loser engineering students?

My God! There is a dormitory full of horny women and you guys are doing this? (On a Friday night no less)

lol the ratio here is 70m:30f, and the majority of the girls aren't that appealing...and I have a gf at home I'd give anything for, so yes, we are doing this on a Friday night.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: neutralizer
I must be a noob, but how the hell do you catch the handle if you slip it under the door?

Picture a wire hanger shaped like a L with a hook on the end. you slide it under the door then rotate it up.

You can also defeat non-deadbolt with flat metal or a wire slid behind the latch. As IS, part of your 'job description' is being asked can you get in my office I lost my key. Thank god for businesses that use master key systems.

I pulled alot of tricks as a kid with doors on houses...I would take their trash can and hang it on their door handle then fill it with water...on the double doors with wrap around handles jamming their newspapers in it usually did the trick. If you know the neighborhood uses single sliding doors in the back you can just throw a 2x4 cut to fit in it.

I do admit it was bad to do this because if a fire broke out they'd be trapped, but I always waited for the results...

 

[badmouse]

Originally posted by: tk109
Credit cards will get you in a lot of locked doors too (had to break into my own house a couple times)

A college student I know locked himself out of his place and tried the credit card thing, since he had heard that you can use a credit card to get in if the door is locked. But he was unsuccessful - as he explained, he couldn't figure out who to pay with the credit card.

 

[Cerpin Taxt]

We hated our RA so we epoxied coins over his keyhole so he couldn't get into his room.

 

[Lalakai]

yep, couple others already got the penny idea, by forcing pressure on the bolt and effectively locking the door.

as for the 33 rpm covers: remove records and open the cover, then fill with shaving cream. carefully pinch the now filled album cover and just barely slide it beneath a person's door, then knock on the door. as soon as the door knob turns or rattles, stomp very hard on the cream filled album cover, forcing the shaving cream out into the other room and splattering person who is just openning door. A clear retreat path is very wise.

who knows about the lifesaver candies and the shower??? always enjoyed that one.

 

[Born2bwire]

Originally posted by: timosyy
At UIUC, the handles are knobs (at least in FAR).

They've installed doors in FAR?

 

[Eos]

Originally posted by: gamepad
In the last Air Force dorm I stayed in a lot of people did this. Needless to say, many people were missing their iPods and PSPs.

Our best & brightest? feh...

 

[TraumaRN]

I remember my freshman year we used to put rocks under the door leading outside, the way the door and concrete met, meant that a properly sized small rock could be placed there and anyone trying to get out could push with all their might and the door wouldnt budge....it was comical cuz we'd only do it to one of the two doors. Watching them kick, yell, run into, charge etc the door was hilarious


We also messed with our RA once by doing the old penny trick after he showered. Hehe he was only in a towel trying like mad to get in his room

Then there was the sex room...this empty dorm 2 doors down from me, that for whatever reason had an unlocked door. Needless to say it was a well kept secret from the RAs that the door was unlocked and people would go in there to do the naughty almost every night

 

[Ika]

Originally posted by: RyanSengara

Originally posted by: PAB

Originally posted by: RyanSengara

Originally posted by: drinkmorejava
Last night we got bored so we rigged hangers to open doors. Just slip it underneath, catch the handle, and pull. Has everyone done this, or are we just loser engineering students?

Loser engineers.

Not all doors are handles, some are knobs..

No, most nowadays have to be handles due to ADA legislation.

ZING!

You're an idiot, not all of us are in the states.

Go complain about your parents.

YOU'RE making a sarcastic comment about complaining about parents?

 

[senseamp]

Credit/ID card FTW

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: DeathBUA
Then there was the sex room...this empty dorm 2 doors down from me, that for whatever reason had an unlocked door. Needless to say it was a well kept secret from the RAs that the door was unlocked and people would go in there to do the naughty almost every night

how'd the camera you hid work out for you?

 

[imported_weadjust]

Originally posted by: Lalakai
yep, couple others already got the penny idea, by forcing pressure on the bolt and effectively locking the door.

as for the 33 rpm covers: remove records and open the cover, then fill with shaving cream. carefully pinch the now filled album cover and just barely slide it beneath a person's door, then knock on the door. as soon as the door knob turns or rattles, stomp very hard on the cream filled album cover, forcing the shaving cream out into the other room and splattering person who is just openning door. A clear retreat path is very wise.

who knows about the lifesaver candies and the shower??? always enjoyed that one.

Now days you can use a 8 x 10 envelope or larger. Fill with shaving cream. Slide envelope under door. Knock on door. As soon as the door know turns or rattles slam the envelope with a text book. Run.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: weadjust

Originally posted by: Lalakai
yep, couple others already got the penny idea, by forcing pressure on the bolt and effectively locking the door.

as for the 33 rpm covers: remove records and open the cover, then fill with shaving cream. carefully pinch the now filled album cover and just barely slide it beneath a person's door, then knock on the door. as soon as the door knob turns or rattles, stomp very hard on the cream filled album cover, forcing the shaving cream out into the other room and splattering person who is just openning door. A clear retreat path is very wise.

who knows about the lifesaver candies and the shower??? always enjoyed that one.

Now days you can use a 8 x 10 envelope or larger. Fill with shaving cream. Slide envelope under door. Knock on door. As soon as the door know turns or rattles slam the envelope with a text book. Run.

That's the way we did it in college.

Leaning a trashcan full of water against the door works too... I got a concussion out of that one.

 

[alkemyst]

I wish I lived in the dorms...looking back I should have.

At UF back in 1993 or so, you shared a kitchen with both the guys and the girls. Right outside that kitchen/common lounge were the showers. There was a door with a window on each side.

I spent a few days there, and having a chick or guy who's towel dropped while trying to get breakfast on wasn't rare.

I know it was against the 'rules' but one night 3 chicks showed up to cook topless and in thongs, thighhighs and heels.

That same night Jethro-Tull kept us awake.

I really wish I did a couple years in the dorms.

 

[Injury]

It's funnier to reverse people's peep holes on their doors and make a sign that says "free peep show" with arrows pointed to the eyehole.

Opening someone's door like that would make me hate a person, because if the wrong people get in your room, they could steal a bunch of crap.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: Injury
It's funnier to reverse people's peep holes on their doors and make a sign that says "free peep show" with arrows pointed to the eyehole.

Opening someone's door like that would make me hate a person, because if the wrong people get in your room, they could steal a bunch of crap.

How do you reverse a peephole without access inside?

 

[senseamp]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: Injury
It's funnier to reverse people's peep holes on their doors and make a sign that says "free peep show" with arrows pointed to the eyehole.

Opening someone's door like that would make me hate a person, because if the wrong people get in your room, they could steal a bunch of crap.

How do you reverse a peephole without access inside?

With roommate's help, of course

 

[TraumaRN]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: DeathBUA
Then there was the sex room...this empty dorm 2 doors down from me, that for whatever reason had an unlocked door. Needless to say it was a well kept secret from the RAs that the door was unlocked and people would go in there to do the naughty almost every night

how'd the camera you hid work out for you?

Pssssshhh I never did that. That was the guy next to me.

He was a religious nut case and insisted people were spying on him.

His whole dorm room had hidden cameras.


Actually one thing we did do, was since our dorms had wireless internet ONLY and the connection was so piss poor we had one of our friends who worked at CompUSA get the best 4-port router(something like this) he could find plus about a 100 foot roll of CAT5 cable that we cut and crimped on our own, then ran all the cabling back to our rooms and respective computers.

Funny part is the internet worked better since the router was right next to the wireless box and the university tried to tell us it was illegal but there was nothing specific about it in the rulebook, plus the IT guy for the university said he didnt care cuz he would have done the same thing.

 

[KrillBee]

i cant believe i hadnt thought of that coathanger trick underneath the door.

in our dorm we managed to get into all the maintenance closets. we had cards and coathangers to flip latches with. they were all circular handles, so it was much harder to get into students rooms, basically because the doors were designed to you couldnt squeeze something in there to flip the latch.

each floor had locked doors going to them. for some reason my key worked on half of the girls floors. so the guys would use my key to pull pranks on their floor, it was great!
girls would leave their room doors unlocked (because the hallway was supposedly locked off) so theyd go in their rooms and scare them while they were sleeping.

one night we had a water fight. the lounges were sopping wet afterwards.