I know one time it was cold, or windy, or rainy... I can't remember it was so long ago. And I had a knife with a blade of at least 6 inches for whatever reason. It was a really bizarre/happy coincidence for me; the runaway 13 year old trying to shelter from the elements. The reason? I came to a door that instead of having a lock, had some sort of make shift pronged device inserted through the push bars on the inside of the door. It's really hard to describe this device so for the purpose of explanation I'll provide a picture of "The Club", which is used to deter auto-theft. "The Club" was not part of my story, but its prongs were similar to the device that was supposed to keep the door shut. You put this thing on your steering wheel... Anyway, all I had to do to get into the building and out of the elements was to slip the humongous knife blade between the two doors of the school or church and use it to lift the prongs off of the door handles. It was a success! And I stayed in the warm building until close to dawn; at which point I can't remember what I did. I was either 13 or 12. So long story short, one of the strangest places I've ever slept was inside a Christian school's hallway. EDIT: Here is a picture of "The Club" in action. The way the device for their door was designed differed from the above device. It was a one-sided thing hanging on the door's push-bars designed to prevent them from letting it open or close; like when you see a two-by-four barring some double doors in a movie, only with prongs facing downward. I just lifted off the proverbial two-by-four with the handy (don't know why I had it or how I got it) knife.
In the UK that was known as a mark 2 krooklok, the mark 1 attached to the steering wheel and one of the pedals, the only trouble was the actual lock was shite, stamp down hard on the pedal and the lock would snap, done for. all you needed then was your trusty piece of scaffold bar to snap off the ignition lock and you were away, assuming of course you didn't have a set of FS keys, these would fit almost all the Fords, British Leylands and Vauxhalls from the early 1970's right up to the late 1980's.