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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#221
hey 2227, i'll vote for you if you vote for me. See you at the top m8.
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#222
Wait for the next earthquake, then call your insurer
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#223
"Use 'the Force', Mom" (Hey, if Luke can get a lightsaber buried in the snow to jump into his hands, as he is hanging upside down, you can keep good china from falling on the floor and breaking)
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#224
Put another dollar in and press A3, and you win them all! :)
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#225
Open Photoshop and load the image. Go to Free Transform>Skew and adjust the image until the back of the cupboard is lying flat. Now open the door, rearrange the bowls properly and once again skew the image back to its initial position before saving. Do not overwrite the original file in case something goes wrong!
You may also Rotate 90° CW but this might cause the bowls to fall back too fast and end up getting smashed anyway. Good luck!
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#226
Slide garbage bag under cupboard door, inflate with hairdryer, slowly open and watch them bounce but not break
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#227
Duct tape all the panels of glass except the one to the right of the dishes, with a crisscross pattern. Score a groove into the surface of the glass to the right of the dishes contact. You can do this with anything harder than glass. (look into Moh Scale for clarity). Take a hammer once you've got a nice size groove, preferably a circle, and gently tap the center of the glass. Wear safety goggles, gloves, and shoes. Keep your arms covered and move the dishes to safety through shattered glass.
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#228
Get into a starship, head towards the sun so that the sun's gravity will slingshot you around it so fast that you will go back in time and then wait for Yesterday" (When you put your china in there) to finally return. Of course, if your calculations are wrong, you can fly into the sun and burn up, or you can end up in the year 1716, trying to convince a ten year old Ben Franklin to invent a time machine.
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#229
sie ,müsste die scheibe gegenüber aufschneiden .. dann köbnnte es klappen , wenn überhaupt .. ohne viel Bruch !!
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#230
Bargain with Dormammu
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#231
That's not a Problem at all! :)
It's an Opportunity to dispose of the extra unused plates...
Or to gather some greek friends & throw a party
Or to gather some greek friends & throw a party
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#232
Leave them. You don't need them. Paper plates are better.
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#233
It looks like a sliding door. Slide the door to the right very few centimeters at a time until you have the edge of the first plate on the inner edge of the door's panel, then stop. At this point you should be able to stick your hand inside and push up all the plates back up from the bottom to restack them.
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#234
Get a letter from Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry. Learn magic. Pull a Dumbledore.
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#235
Place a mattress under the cupboard and very slowly open the door.
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#236
Take up making mosaics as a hobby; save much time and money shopping for your first lot of supplies.
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#237
Flood the floor with styrofoam peanuts & then just let it fall!
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#238
Lay a big panda teddy in front of the cupboard and open the door. The plates will land softly on the panda and you can hug the panda for being so useful and your only real friend to help in such bad situations.
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#239
Just don't, from here on out you eat off the bench.
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#240
If the china is irreplaceable (as is often the case):
1.Break top left window
2.Situate the dishes through said broken window
3. Spend a little bit of money on the totally replaceable window :)
1.Break top left window
2.Situate the dishes through said broken window
3. Spend a little bit of money on the totally replaceable window :)
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Open the door, let the china/your memories come crashing to the floor, and take solace in the idea that in an alternate timeline, it is all still in tact
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