Drop whatever you're doing, we have a situation in here! A stay-at-home mother has posted a picture of the 'impossible to open' cupboard and she needs your tips to open it without destroying these precious porcelain plates.
'A cupboard that can never be opened,' - read the caption. Of course, you can never throw words like 'never' online because soon after posting, the army of kind-hearted internauts came pouring in (16,000 reactions and 456 comments) to help this lady with getting her plates to safety.
What would you do in this situation? Post your answers below!
Update: The photo was actually taken after an earthquake in the Tottori Prefecture on October 21st, in a hotel owned by the Kishida family.
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#181
Easy! Use the good old Day of the Tentacle Trick:
1) Place Laverne in front of cupboard, ready to catch plates.
2) Switch player from Laverne to Hoagie
3) Save
4) Encourage George Washington to cut some - not all - of the tree down. Just enough wood to make the shelves, but not the door.
5) When you switch back to Laverne, she should be holding the plates safely. If not, load and try a different approach on (4).
1) Place Laverne in front of cupboard, ready to catch plates.
2) Switch player from Laverne to Hoagie
3) Save
4) Encourage George Washington to cut some - not all - of the tree down. Just enough wood to make the shelves, but not the door.
5) When you switch back to Laverne, she should be holding the plates safely. If not, load and try a different approach on (4).
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#182
Don't you have an Indian in your cupboard? Ask him politely to assist you.
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#183
Say "Wingardium Leviosa!" Don't forget to swish and flick.
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#184
Try thinking positively! You know, in a cupboard-half-full kinda way!
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#185
Create a kickstarter or indigogo account to fund the broken plates, you might be lucky it might be overly funded.. Tip: make your video super interesting so many will fund it. Good luck.. I believe in you.. 1 week left..
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#186
Unhinge cabinet door, push door up against plates and carefully slide door up until edge of door reaches bottom of messy shelf. Tilt edge of door in until parallel to messy shelf (hence letting cabinet door act as extension of shelf.) Voila. Let the dishes slide onto door, hopefully unscathed
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#187
CTRL + ALT + DELETE
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#188
By the looks of it its a sliding door, that'd make things harder. Anyways, either tip the whole thing on it's back or break a pane or try a slim tool, put pieces of (duc)tape in and secure the plates to the shelves. Open door and peel tape from plates one by one
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#189
Open the door very slightly and stick a spatula in, hold the plates with said spatula and open door enough to get other hand in to grip remaining section of plates.
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#190
This would only work with a sliding door. Get a small curtain dowel with curtain attachment. Slightly slide door open just enough to slide dowel into cupboard. Bottom of the curtain then is tacked to the back of the cupboard with a second dowel. Bowls slide the curtain to a safe location at the back of the cupboard.
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#191
Hire Quicksilver from X-men to retrieve the plates for you.
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#192
Break the window on top, nobody will notice it's missing.
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#193
Meditate for few years in Himalayan moutains. Find your inner peace kind of kung fu panda... practice on catching flying arrows and bullets... when you're fast enough and have meditated enough, you will realize that life is bigger and more important.. you will open the door, slowly, not quickly, plates will fall and break, and you will give them to the poor
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#194
Wait for Trump to build a wall around it...
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#195
Carefully disconnect the house from its foundation. Make sure not to lose any washers. While holding everything inside in place, gently but firmly tip the building over to one side, so that the wall with the problematic cupboard is now on the floor. Open the cupboard, and restack the dishes. Tip the house back on its bottom (again remembering to hold everything inside in place) and reattach building to foundation. You should have no extra washers when you are done.
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#196
with the looks of things it's a sliding door that slides open to the right sliding the door should hopefully slide the dishes across with the door open it (slowly!) enough to fit your arm in take the top few dishes and place them on the lower shelf if they fit repeat until you can take the ones on the glass, DO NOT take the ones on the glass first as it will cause a chain reaction and make the top ones fall, once all dishes are on the the lower shelf safely open the door and put the dishes back
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#197
Remove window pane to the right, reach in and pulp plates out, refit window
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#198
Try setting it to "Wumbo"
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#199
It's actually very simple. Go to Canadian tire or hardware store of your choice.. Buy a glass cutter. Use the glass cutter to cut the edges of the pane of glass above the pane the bowls are against. Reach in and settle the bowls. Problem solved. Now replace the glass pane using gorilla glue or alternate. Your welcome
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#200
Rub some bacon on it.
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