Question of the Day - Tuesday, June 17th, 2025

[ShrekDawg]

Today's question is from @Lacy Duckwing:

Yes! I have one coop that cannot be opened from the inside, and every now and then, I get locked in. To get out, I have to find a long feather, bend it in half, then stick the bend through the wire and open the latch. Guess I should fix that.
It's one of these:

We used to have those same latches on my coop doors and I got locked in a few times LOL so then my dad installed wires in both of them going to the inside so we could get out LOL

 

[The Moonshiner]

Heck no.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Heck no.
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Bahahahaha

 

[BigBlueHen53]

No. We have one of those idiot latches, not on the door to the coop, but on the gate to the little pen around the coop. It has a wire attached to the little hole, and that wire is fed back through the gate to the inside so if you pull on it you can open the gate even if you were careless enough to allow the gate to shut behind you and latch itelf shut. Hmm. Probably time to replace that spindly little wire with something a little sturdier.

 

[HonkABC]

A baby possum somehow got locked in our coop with baby chicks once.

 

[Luckyhen006]

Nope. I've locked other people inside though

 

[Gill-b]

Well now, let me sit down for this one . . .
My husband and I were driving back from a camping trip one summer. It was a Sunday. On the way I spotted a bunch of those neat little chicken coop/tractor thingies outside of a building, so I asked if we could pull over and look. It was only going to take a minute since we had a dog in the vehicle and everything was closed on Sunday; I just wanted a quick up close peek since I'd never seen those types of coops in the flesh. I hopped out of the truck and dashed around the coops quick as a jack rabbit, but before getting back in the truck I did want to step inside one of the coops and I invited my husband to join me right quick (you know, in case I wanted one in the future - I needed the man in there to memorize how everything is put together!). He went in first, I followed, and I let the door swing shut behind us. We took a quick looksie and turned to leave . . .

WHY IN THE BLUE BLAZES WOULD ANYONE DESIGN A COOP DOOR THAT AUTOMATICALLY LOCKS WHEN CLOSED?!?!?!

It was one of those doors that could only be opened from the outside, we'd left our phones in the truck, there was no one around to hear our screams, and we couldn't be seen from the road. So, poop.

Now, with the dog in the car we could have and would have torn through the wire if necessary, but luckily some rooting around produced some sort of metal trash that the man was able to fashion into a dealymabob he could poke through the wire and use to open the door. Not that that was a simple endeavor, no sir. We were in there for a long enough time as my husband went latch fishing that I was seriously considering hurling myself through the wire to save my dog. It was when I was about to give in to full blown panic that the door popped open and my husband stood there with a look of triumph. Y'all know the look; it's the one that's a combination of "I've accomplished something manly," and "Now I get to tease my wife forever about the day she locked us in a coop."

It's when we exited the coop that we both noticed the security camera pointed in our direction. I really hope someone watched it and got a kick out of the two dopes in the coop.

Now, one day I'll tell the story of the day we moved into our new house, and how the very first thing I did was lock us out of it. My husband says it's a wonder I didn't lock us into the coop that was on our new property to boot. Future goals.

Crying with laughter here. Hilarious!!