MacGyver-Like Stories

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Section Includes:

MacGyver Fever
Opening A Lock
Breaking Into A Hard Drive
Picking Locks with Lightbulbs
Fixing Eyeglasses
Repairing Signs

MacGyver Fever

By deathstarloser - submitted 10/17/06

As you know Hawaii hsa just went thru a Earthquake. I dont live on the island that it hit the hardest. I live on the island of Oahu. We still felt the quake and it did effect us. The power went out for 14 hours. During this 14 hours of no power, my MacGyver sense was getting strong ( LOL )( Kinda like Spiderman ) Then it came MacGyver FEVER!!!!

When the Power shut off in the morn I first thought about all the things I needed. Water, can food, Duct tape and my Swiss army knife.

I had to tell my friend how to make a macgyverism over the phone. He didnt have a portable stove like me so i told him how to make one. Out of foil I told him to make a square dish. Inisde of that dish I wanted him to make 3 round foil dishes that are about an inch high. Inside of those round dishes I told him to put some oil. ( cooking i guess ) get some cotton stick it in and whala Instant stove. ( oh yeah and light it ) Said it took him 15 mins to cook spam.

duct tape. I had to take home a church member that came to church early that sunday. She lived on the 7th floor. There was no power thus no elevator. So she walked it up. Along the way we met 4 seniors that were in the stairs just sitting down due to exaustion. One of the seniors had aa broken cane so I fixed it with duct tape. And another was carrying up food in a bag and the bag was about to rip. So I asked her to stop and duct taped it and it was all good.

Swiss Army knife. This tool was used for everything. Tightening loose screws ( both phillips and flat head ) all the way up to opening up my can food ( SOUP ). The cool part was that I poped a hole into the top of the can and then put the can over my stove. Yeah i drank it but I had to wear a mit.

14 hours of no power = the greatest MacGyver day ever

I wonder how Mac would have done everything. Food is something I wonder what would Mac do. For me I live next door to a Korean store that was open and sold soda and water. WWMD? for food. lol

Opening A Lock

By deathstarloser - submitted 9/19/06

One day in school we had a project for science class to make a lock system that no ones else could open but you. ( like one of the macgyver episodes ) Of course this wasnt like macgyver where you could do it to a room. You could make your own lock or buy one. All you had to was attach it to something and then tell the other person to open it.

Everyone brought theres out and alot of them were store bought. The teacher gave us numbers to the locks to try and open and who ever could open the most wins.

So I got a number and went to a lock. The guy who said that Macgyver is the most retarded person in the world was this guys lock. His lock was a keypad lock. He said no one could guess the code because it was the best code ever. in response to his boasting I said "really?". He looked at me and said "Lets see your MacGyver pul lthis one off!" Too bad for him mac tought me about these kinda locks.

Took my swiss army knife out ( Yes it was contraband in school but i didnt hurt anyone ) and starterd to shave the lead off my pencilonto a small paper. Once I had enough lead I blowed it onto the keypad. knowing that this guy bought this the night before ( took it out of the container it was in before class ) I knew he only would have to hit 8 keys. So when I looked at the keys there were his finger prints. And guess what his combo was. LOL! 1111. What a dumb axx. He was so shocked that I got it. All I did to him was make my hands in the shape of an "M" and went "MacGyver MOFO! MacGyver!"

After that He acually went and bought seasons 1-2 of MacGyver and watched all of them and came back and told me sorry. He said that he didnt know Mac was so cool in figuring out things. after watching those episodes I heard that he had did some macgyverisms in class. All I heard was this " Water + plastic bag + 3 rubber bands + scale + 2 marbles = timed catapault of 2 marbles that shattered on contact, when they collided with the teachers chalkboard.

I dont think mac ment for people to do harm while watching his episodes.

Breaking Into A Hard Drive

By deathstarloser - submitted 9/19/06

I was on you tube the other night and was watching this mythbusters episode where they tried to open a finger print lock with diffrent inventions they had made. The inventions they used were a latex print a scanned print and then a jelly print.

this comes nowhere near Mac's

After watching it I thought I try it....Mac style. My friend has one of those new LaCie hard drives that have the fingerprint identification scanner. I told him that I would attempt to break into it and he said fine. He said he give me 20 bucks if I did and to prove that I broke in, He had a special msg for me inside. So it was on. I melted some wax and put it in a dish and then putting a dish over another small candle to keep it from getting hard. I then had lifted his finger print from a car that he had just driven. ( after he made the bet he washed all his glass cups ) I took some chalk and shaved it over the area of his finger print.

Now the hard part, I put my thumb in the wax ( which did burn a little ) made sure the wax got a little hard and then pressed my thumb against the chalked area.

Whala.. Instant replica of someone elses fingerprint.

Put my thumb to the plate of his hard drive and it opened for me.

Thank You Mac ..... You just made me 20 bucks richer.
I wonder what other money making ideas Mac came up with.

Picking Locks with Lightbulbs

By deathstarloser - submitted 9/14/06

In the first season Mac uses a lightbulb as a lock pick to get out of a room. This trick acually works if you were back in Macgyver days. I live in an old place and the light bulbs there have not been changed scince I was born ( really ) Anyway one day I had forgotton my keys inside and didnt know what to do. I didnt have that much money to call a locksmith so I thought that maybe the old light bulbs would have those two strong steel rods in them. The modern ones are now just wire. Sure enough they did. Took then bulb off from the socket ( I replaced this bulb ) and softly broke the bulb. Got to two steel rods and used two of them as the key pick. I know in the episode Mac only uses one but for my Lock two was a must. so one to use as the out side and the other as the jammer. couple mins later and the door was open. The lock still works till this day and I thank God for the Mac trick I leared from watching his dvds.

If not for Macgyver the world would be up to its armpits in problems he couldve solved. ( then again he did teach you how to build on bomb on national television )

Fixing Eyeglasses

By Me!-- 11/2005

"Recently I was on vacation with my family and my sister broke her glasses. She was whining and complaining, saying she needed to go to the eye doctor's office to get it fixed. I told her to give me her glasses. She did and I inspected them. They weren't broken. I just needed a small screwdriver to tighten the frames together so that her lens wouldn't fall out anymore. As luck would have it, I didn't have a screwdriver. I did, however, have a rubber band on my wrist. So what do I do? I wrapped the rubber band around the screw, so that her lens was held between the frames, like they would be if it was normal. Voila, all is right in the world. No more complaining from sister and no more headaches for anybody else. Besides have a big chunk of rubber stuck to her glasses, my sister was fine! When we arrived at our destination, my mom borrowed a small screwdriver and tightened her glasses. Everything was great and it's all thanks to MacGyver for helping me think outside the box!

PS. I carry a pocketknife and duct tape with me as a result of watching this show. I cannot tell you HOW many times those two items have come in handy. "

Repairing Signs

By "Mary" -- 2005

Ok, so I walked into my science class, and one of the signs on the wall was hanging on only one hook.

I had to fix it, I just HAD to. I stood on my desk to put the other corner on it's hook, and lo and behold, in doing so, the first hook broke! I thought about it for awhile, and I looked at my wrist, where I wear a bracelet made of paperclips. I took one, and unbent it. I hooked one side through the sign's little hole (0) and I hooked the other side onto the thing the hook used to be on [] . It was fairly centered, and no one noticed. it looked something like this: []'.._(Q)
wall thingy^ ^ ^hole-thing
Paper clip

YAY ME!!!!!!!! -Mary

For those of you that don't know who MacGyver is. MacGyver is the star of a 1980s TV show of the same name, starring Richard Dean Anderson.

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