h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

here are my accomplishments for this year so far: breaking in and entering somebody's house in broad daylight! with a police car patrolling the area! and what's more, it was my supervisor's house!



i'm not kidding! although my intentions were a great deal more honourable than burglary... we had a farewell party for a labmate at my supervisor's house last friday. a bunch of us went home with her just before 5 o'clock to set things up... only to have her announce in horror as we pulled up at her gate that she had neither gate remote control nor house keys on her! so jimmy was sent over the gate to unlock the garbage gate from inside. ... and disappeared without a trace behind the house. so alex went after him... and did a similar disappearing act. so i went over the fence in hot pursuit, and got the gate opened.

of course, once we were in, there was the matter of getting *into* the house. all of the doors and windows were locked, except for the french windows at the back of the house, but there was a sliding grille door blocking the way in. we had absolutely no lock-picking tools of any sort.... and then yours truly had the brilliant idea of taking down the grille panel with the screwdriver set from jimmy's car. (er, yeah, we actually took down the thing, and my supervisor slipped into the kitchen to get the keys)

our supervisor was telling the second convoy about an hour later about how alex and i dismantled her door and broke into her house... we told her that should her house be broken into sometime in the future, IT'S NOT US!

When I broke into my parents house it was in daylight with their permission too. It had to be me because I was the only one small and agile enough. I very much doubt any police were patrolling though. There hadn't been on the couple of occasions there were real burglars.

Is something going to be done to patch this security hole just in case there are any real burglars in your supervisor's area?

LOL Farlander!

I was actually hoping for the conversation link to be an article on spontaneous celebrations at other people's houses!? (I was also hoping that it would be tongue and cheek, and not supply B&E information on the h2g2 site.

Not everyone is familiar with the term Milk-Chute, which is a small, 12-inch by 12-inch hole in a house, with a small door on either side. It was used for home milk delivery, a thing of the past in most areas. That was how we, as kids, would help our parents in when keys were mislaid. The inner door's catch was susceptible to a specific force vector.

I also spent a couple of months with an aunt and uncle; and, on leaving, showed them a weak spot that they might want to fix, now I wouldn't be needing a way in should they and my cousins be out.

I tend to casually check out entrances and exits of buildings I'm in; partly for architectural interests, and partly because of an interest in security (Not to mention emergency exiting. I have what I consider a healthy level of paranoia).

sounds like fun! afraid i don't have a similar story, we're a law abiding folk! i did once lock my parents in the loft once tho, and had to get a neighbour round to kick the door down...

well... no, sef. that blasted grille squeaked and squealed like stuck pigs when we moved it. we told my supervisor not to oil it - it was the house's most effective burglar alarm

all that time i spent climbing fences and walls and rooftops as a kid has paid off... the only thing is that i can *imagine* how my supervisor's letter of recommendation for me will read:

'has no qualms about blackmailing and extorting people. picks locks for fun. breaks into people's houses in broad daylight.'

That might be the sort of recommendation you would want though if applying for an MI5 sort of job (ie mix of James Bond and Q) or even possibly for a forensics job.

i foresee a change of lifestyle now, if i were only small enough to crawl through milk chutes!

oooiii.....

I assumed that breaking and entering was happened on 9th of jan 04. I will never forget that particular day...he he he...

How are you? I bet you were at 'home sweet home' already. What your plan for tom?

Ananta

eh heh, yup, that was the er, incident that we never got to tell you about. and on your birthday too! the things we are prepared to do for our friends.... tsk tsk...

arrived at about three this afternoon. flight was too bloody smooth. spent forever waiting for my one bag to come out of the baggage hold because i was obviously an idiot enough to check in early. plan to do a fair bit of malingering tomorrow - hey, i deserve it after all the work i put into the concert!

er.... did you find the grass snake's head in the stove?

He he he....i also feel that 9th of jan this year totally different from previous year. Coz on my birthday, around 2pm, i had to line up at JPJ regarding my car papers....ishhh....

Anyway, i found parts of grass snake,starting from the head, legs, and 9days old flesh..he he he....yummy....uups...did i say anything?
But i found it a bit difficult to put the secret poem altogether,until i had to ask the clue from an angel....

Hey, I heard bout your concert, but i dont know details. How is it?

Anyway, when is your visit to my hometown?

re: grass snake - heh heh heh and to think we might have found all that in *elton's* stove! and speaking of elton, he returned from the twilight zone to invite us out for lunch last friday. and no, he hasn't joined a cult, and he isn't going around town wearing white paper pants...

how was the concert? well, gee, i don't know - on account of how we were all FROZEN SOLID! somebody had turned the hall into a walk-in freezer while we weren't looking, and decided it would be fun to freeze 70 orchestra members to their seats/instruments by turning on the air-conditioning at FULL BLAST. i'm not sure which was colder that night, my trombone or me! our teeth were still chattering half an hour after the concert ended and we rushed out for cups of hot tea...