Solicitor dropped a business card inside my screen door and I can't get it out.

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• protokaiser@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Call up, schedule an appointment, have them remove the card, and then kick them out.

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  • mateomaui@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Best response so far.

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• nirodhaavidya@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Use a vacuum cleaner with a detached hose. While applying suction from the screen side, slide the nozzle up while dragging the card with it.

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  • skillissuer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    This won’t allow to slide the card around, it’ll just stick to screen in one place. Better learn how to get the screen off entirely, because this will happen again

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    • ThisGuysNeverSerious@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Yeah I was thinking the best thing to do it just unscrew it, hold it upside-down and shake it out. You have a point on how would you rig it so it does not happen again.

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  • vintprox@geddit.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Someone could make WikiHow out of this.

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    • anewbeginning@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      15 steps and images for something that takes half a dozen words to explain.

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  • fsniper@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    You can use pencils as supports too

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    • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      There’s a finer screen that isn’t very easy to see in the thumbnail.

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• calabast@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Open the door, then light it on fire

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  • SpezCanLigmaBalls@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I agree with this option the most

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    • kamenlady@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      The safest way, would be to use a flamethrower

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  • wanderingmagus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    The real solution

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• Transcendant@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  In my country, a solicitor is a lawyer, so looking at the business card confused the fuck out of me for a moment!

  Can you pry the screen out from that corner, remove the card, then just pry it back (maybe some sealant, I have zero DIY skills)?

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  • psud@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Visiting the US years ago I got a chuckle out of “no solicitors” signs

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• uphillbothways@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  can you just the bits around and get it to pop out the bottom?

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  • TerminalViscosity@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Are you flirting?

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    • meggied90@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      The snort-laugh that I just made after reading your reply disturbed my dog. Thanks for the guffaw!

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• betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  If NirodhaAvidya’s vacuum approach doesn’t work out for you and you can’t find an easy way to get the screen door apart, a couple sewing needles (or something similar) might do the trick. Stab the card toward a corner, rotate it so the far corner is higher up, stab with another needle, remove the first one and repeat to walk it up toward an opening where you can grab it. Might have to pick a new spot to poke it every few iterations if you’re not getting enough friction to make the card move.

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• Laticauda@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  So many suggestions here are so needlessly complicated. Just put some tape on the end of a thin stick 🤦

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• ngdev@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Go to a local business, steal the bowl of business cards for a free dinner raffle, and start an immortalized game of connect 4 in your door.

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• LazaroFilm@lemmy.film ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Call them and ask them to remove it.

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• Amilo1591@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Burn it

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• linearchaos@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  I agree with calling the guy to get it out, but a close second would be to put thin piece double-sided tape around the tip of a bamboo skewer feed it down in press the card to it and pull it out. if one skewer isn’t enough, tape a second one to the first one

  _________________________________                          tape
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                                                             tape
  

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• 30isthenew29@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Don’t hire these assholes.

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• Butters@lemmywinks.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Get a full sized piece of paper that you can slide in from the top, that shout teach the card but can still be pulled out from the top. Use tap to stick the card to the paper. Then pull it out.

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• LoafyLemon@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Double sided tape on a stick should do the job.

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• RozhkiNozhki@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Is the opening at the top wide enough for a thin grabby tool aka claw picker?

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• BroBot9000@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Burn it!

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• Tankaus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  You better put some water on that damn shit!

  • Pops from Friday

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• STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Bite it out.

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• zatanas@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Perhaps you could use a pair of tongs? Maybe BBQ tongs.

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