Street Use

Makeshift Latch

Problem: wind blows door open in old hut. Solution: improvise a latch using metal grills and extension cord. This apparent hack was found in a hut apparently used by vagrants. Post on Flickr by Tak.

From the inside it looks like this.

Latchout

From the outside, we can see how the latch holds.

Latchin

Posted on August 24, 2006 at 9:24 PM | Comments (0)



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