Ways to break into Chruch
Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 9:10 pm
You know when you are really bored at Church you can discover all sorts of interesting places and things about the building itself.
As teenagers, my member friends and I, were at the church building a lot when were not supposed to be. It drove the leadership crazy and they took measures to keep us out, or at least try and force us to get permission to use the building and arrange for adult supervision. We were too lazy to go to all that work and never really thought about in advance when we wanted to use the building. Mostly it was on a weekday afternoon or a Saturday when we wanted to play basketball in the cultural hall.
At first all we needed to get into the building was a hanger. Both the front and back main entry doors were double doors that had the horizontal bar on the inside of the door that you pushed on to open the door. It was a simple thing to slide the hanger, hook end first, in between the two doors and hook that handle. We could actually open the door faster that way than unlocking it with a key from the outside. Leadership figured that out and installed plates of the outside of the doors to prevent using a hanger to open them. At first the plates were short and we just used a longer hanger or piece of wire to get around them. Eventually the plate covered the gap between the doors the full vertical height of the doors.
On to plan B. Our building was a Spanish style building that had an outdoor patio that was enclosed by a ring of classrooms. The patio had a outdoor stage that was mirrored on the inside of the building by the indoor stage. The outdoor stage was a great place to stage props that were to be used in a road show because there were doors connecting the two stages at the common back wall. As most people know, beneath the inside stage is where all the cultural hall chairs and tables are stored. What most people didn't know, back then, was that there was a small door at the back of the inside stage crawlspace that connected to a similar crawlspace at the underside of the outside stage. We discovered that it was easy to climb up on the roof, walk over to the patio area, climb back down and enter through this door. Eventually someone spilled the beans and they locked this door.
Plan C. In climbing on the roof to cross over to the patio I noticed that there were skylights over the stage area that were open able. One of these opened up into an attic area above the stage which led to a ladder to the stage and we were back in business. Leadership never did figure this one out and as far as I know you could still get into that building that way today. Seems to me that they eventually just offered some of us keys and told us to be careful.
As teenagers, my member friends and I, were at the church building a lot when were not supposed to be. It drove the leadership crazy and they took measures to keep us out, or at least try and force us to get permission to use the building and arrange for adult supervision. We were too lazy to go to all that work and never really thought about in advance when we wanted to use the building. Mostly it was on a weekday afternoon or a Saturday when we wanted to play basketball in the cultural hall.
At first all we needed to get into the building was a hanger. Both the front and back main entry doors were double doors that had the horizontal bar on the inside of the door that you pushed on to open the door. It was a simple thing to slide the hanger, hook end first, in between the two doors and hook that handle. We could actually open the door faster that way than unlocking it with a key from the outside. Leadership figured that out and installed plates of the outside of the doors to prevent using a hanger to open them. At first the plates were short and we just used a longer hanger or piece of wire to get around them. Eventually the plate covered the gap between the doors the full vertical height of the doors.
On to plan B. Our building was a Spanish style building that had an outdoor patio that was enclosed by a ring of classrooms. The patio had a outdoor stage that was mirrored on the inside of the building by the indoor stage. The outdoor stage was a great place to stage props that were to be used in a road show because there were doors connecting the two stages at the common back wall. As most people know, beneath the inside stage is where all the cultural hall chairs and tables are stored. What most people didn't know, back then, was that there was a small door at the back of the inside stage crawlspace that connected to a similar crawlspace at the underside of the outside stage. We discovered that it was easy to climb up on the roof, walk over to the patio area, climb back down and enter through this door. Eventually someone spilled the beans and they locked this door.
Plan C. In climbing on the roof to cross over to the patio I noticed that there were skylights over the stage area that were open able. One of these opened up into an attic area above the stage which led to a ladder to the stage and we were back in business. Leadership never did figure this one out and as far as I know you could still get into that building that way today. Seems to me that they eventually just offered some of us keys and told us to be careful.