[Namron] Lock on the Privy

[Robert Atwood]

*furiously scribbles out "Bunging the Privy Lock Mechanism" from his  
Bigge Booke o' Fun and Dyverse Thynges to Do at the Faire*


On Mar 25, 2009, at 8:26 PM, Donnchadh Beag mac Griogair wrote:

> So we would just have to come up with a proper punishment such an  
> individual.  Threats of beatings would probably either be ignored or  
> invited...so maybe a withholding of mead would be a better deterrent.
>
> Donnchadh
>
> Miles Grey wrote:
>>
>> JOHN wrote:
>>
>>> I was thinking the key would go on a BIG hoop or ring which can be  
>>> kept
>>> on a table just inside the Hospitality Pavilion.  That way if you  
>>> need
>>> to get in there straight away NOW, turning a key is a lot easier  
>>> than
>>> fumbling with a combination lock.  And yes, take the lock inside  
>>> with
>>> you or else tempt fate of being locked inside :-)
>>>
>> Perhaps now isn't the time to point out that the hardware on the  
>> outside
>> of the privy that allows it to be locked (a hasp, padeye, a pair of
>> flanges with holes, etc) function by allowing the rigid shackle of  
>> the
>> padlock to be passed through either one hole (in a flange or padeye)
>> trapping the door or hasp behind it or through two holes (in a  
>> matched
>> pair of flanges) preventing separation of the flanges.  The *lock*  
>> part
>> prevents those whom you do not want to gain access to the privy  
>> from being
>> able to remove the rigid shackle.
>>
>> Carrying the padlock into the privy with you prevents anyone from  
>> locking
>> the *padlock*, but it does absolutely *nothing* to prevent a
>> mischievous/scurrilous individual from, say, picking up a stick  
>> from the
>> ground and jamming it in place as if it were the rigid shackle  
>> portion of
>> the padlock.  This would leave you clasping the padlock and its key  
>> inside
>> the privy but still unable to open the door.
>>
>> Of course, no one would really *do* anything like that.  This  
>> thought just
>> popped into my paranoid little mind completely unbidden.
>>
>>   Miles Grey
>>
>>
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