The California man who hid for 6 months in a secret room inside Circuit City (opens in new tab)

That said most freezers by law have an internal quick release that should work even if there's a padlock through the secure holes on the outside latch.

It's probable he has barricaded the door with something heavy and told the people inside that the first one out the door will be shot dead.

Quora suggested jamming the extraction fans to stop the freezer working and potentially triggering a service alarm should the quick release not work:

https://www.quora.com/What-if-I-accidentally-ended-up-locked...

This was on the front page of reddit today.

> Over the course of seven months, the Roofman hit over 40 restaurants, mostly McDonald’s franchises, for a total score of $100,000. Armed with a gun and power tools, he drilled through the roof. Then, he would drop down from the ceiling, sometimes as far as 14 feet, and begin the holdup.

I would probably never use the term “ceiling cat” unprompted, but if there was ever a person to which the term could be applied, it’s this guy. Not in the spying sense you’re implying, but clearly acclimated to ceilings

"Whoever unlawfully seizes, confines, inveigles, decoys, kidnaps, abducts, or carries away and holds for ransom or reward or otherwise any person..."

Locking people in a walk-in is pretty clearly "confines".

For North Carolina's purpose: https://www.ncleg.net/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/HTML/BySec...

"Any person who shall unlawfully confine, restrain, or remove from one place to another, any other person 16 years of age or over without the consent of such person, ... shall be guilty of kidnapping if such confinement, restraint or removal is for the purpose of:

(1) Holding such other person for a ransom or as a hostage or using such other person as a shield; or

(2) Facilitating the commission of any felony or facilitating flight of any person following the commission of a felony; or"

So, confinement which facilitates the commision of a felony and fleeing thereafter.

Second: because we don't have human-equivalent AI, and if we did, why would you think that they would do better?

Bottomless.

Shrimp.

I've come to find too, partners who prefer whatever instead of having very specific expectations for time spent together are more comfortable to be around.

While I haven't been to a Red Lobster since I was a kid, that was always a treat back then, and it was one of the nicest places my parents could afford to take us on occasion.