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.
Solicitor dropped a business card inside my screen door and I can't get it out.
Submitted 11 months ago by AnUnoriginalUserID@lemmy.world to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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nirodhaavidya@lemmy.world 11 months ago
skillissuer@lemmy.world 11 months 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
ThisGuysNeverSerious@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
vintprox@geddit.social 11 months ago
Someone could make WikiHow out of this.
anewbeginning@lemmy.world 11 months ago
15 steps and images for something that takes half a dozen words to explain.
fsniper@kbin.social 11 months ago
You can use pencils as supports too
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 11 months ago
There’s a finer screen that isn’t very easy to see in the thumbnail.
calabast@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Open the door, then light it on fire
SpezCanLigmaBalls@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I agree with this option the most
kamenlady@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The safest way, would be to use a flamethrower
wanderingmagus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The real solution
Transcendant@lemmy.world 11 months 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)?
psud@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Visiting the US years ago I got a chuckle out of “no solicitors” signs
uphillbothways@kbin.social 11 months ago
can you just the bits around and get it to pop out the bottom?
TerminalViscosity@kbin.social 11 months ago
Are you flirting?
meggied90@lemm.ee 11 months ago
The snort-laugh that I just made after reading your reply disturbed my dog. Thanks for the guffaw!
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
Laticauda@lemmy.world 11 months ago
So many suggestions here are so needlessly complicated. Just put some tape on the end of a thin stick 🤦
ngdev@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
LazaroFilm@lemmy.film 11 months ago
Call them and ask them to remove it.
Amilo1591@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
Burn it
linearchaos@lemmy.world 11 months 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
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30isthenew29@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Don’t hire these assholes.
Butters@lemmywinks.com 11 months 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.
LoafyLemon@kbin.social 11 months ago
Double sided tape on a stick should do the job.
RozhkiNozhki@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Is the opening at the top wide enough for a thin grabby tool aka claw picker?
BroBot9000@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Burn it!
Tankaus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You better put some water on that damn shit!
- Pops from Friday
STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Bite it out.
zatanas@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Perhaps you could use a pair of tongs? Maybe BBQ tongs.
protokaiser@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Call up, schedule an appointment, have them remove the card, and then kick them out.
mateomaui@reddthat.com 11 months ago
Best response so far.