Ask Miss Manners?

[minnesota oldie]

I'm not sure if this should be in general or tactics. Now this did NOT happen to me. You go to Wally world to buy some value pacs and mother nature calls. You go into the stall and while getting ready to take care of business your hand slips on your belt and your pants fall to the right turning your holster upside down, dropping your glock into the john. Do you 1. Call for a cleanup? 2. Fish it out and go about your business? 3. Try the glock underwater fire test? or 4. Since it's just a glock, flush in down. I repeat, this did not happen to me, not twice that is.

 

[Valkman]

Miss Manners would tell you that you should remove your firearm and set it down prior to dropping your drawers. I read on one of these forums that someone did that and now I do it too. When done I reholster. It also keeps your "piece" available should you get attacked by a stall ninja.

 

[S_O_Laban]

Ahhh! I was afraid the "the ole stall ninja" might raise its ugly head .... stall ninja, you just gotta love this place

 

[TonyB]

I dropper my pocket knife in the john at work last week......fortunatly it was just after it had been cleaned.....at least that's what I tell myself.....I'd go Glock diving...........and then clean it as soon as I got home.....I always try to find a stall w/ a place to set my carry gun....hopefully within reach.....always de-gun before throneing.....

 

[BigG]

You also shouldn't hang it by the trigger guard on the coat hanger, but people do.

 

[HogRider]

4. Since it's just a glock, flush in down

I kinda like that option....

 

[Navy joe]

Do your business on it, then remove without cleaning, re-holster, carry for a week and then shoot. When done, don't clean it again and return to the internet to write the experience up as a "Glock torture test". It passed with flying colors if brown is the color you are referring to. Geez, Glock people!

 

[Big_R]

Dropping a Glock on a turd is not a nice thing to do...

... to the turd.

Ryan

 

[Steve in PA]

Thumb strap

 

[uglymofo]

Leave it where it is; it looks better there. But if you must, fish it out and post it on GunBroker in "as new condition".

 

[Mike Irwin]

I think I'd run for the woods, as I'd NEVER put my fanny near the toilet seat in a WalMart, or just about anywhere else for that matter.

 

[Ky Larry]

Doesn't Tupper Ware float?

 

[ceetee]

Steve in PA

Thumb strap

Ya beat me to it! Once when I was in college, I went into a john on campus. As it turns out, there's a vocational school there that does all the local police training. As I was standing there, minding my own business, in came a State Trooper. He entered the stall, saw no coat hook on the inside, and came back out again.

The only coat hook in the room was by the door. He took off his belt, hung it (with gun, radio, cuffs, et al.) on the coat hook right by the door to the outside .

As I washed up, he went on into the stall, dropped trou, and proceeded to get busy...

I just shook my head, and thought, "It's a good thing I'm a good citizen..." I hung around the front of the restroom to watch over the door, until I saw him come back out, gun belt in place...


Oh, sorry for the bit of drift there...

 

[Preacherman]

ceetee, personally, I'd have taken the gunbelt with me and handed it in at reception/security/whatever, telling them where I found it (not mentioning any names). That sort of thing is criminally irresponsible.

 

[winstonsmith]

I would have taken the notebook and pencil I always carry with me, written a note that said "all your handgun are belong to us" and left it on his holster. Food for thought for him, I guess.

 

[Dave Markowitz]

Glock = Combat Flusherware

 

[Ironbarr]

Now there's an idea, TonyB...

When, as, and if we ever have political influence we should demand local, state, and federal law that ALL stalls include a (secure??) resting place for our self-defense items... I mean, after all, they've already required changes to facilities for others. Why not us?

Peace and Good Will to all GGs - BGs takes their chances.

-Andy

 

[BluesBear]

Didn't one of the Glock torture tests include being immersed for 6 hours in a Port-o-let in the infield at the Indy 500?

 

[Guyon]

Beware the stall ninja.

If you're in a mall, forget about it. You're history. Nothing beats a mall, stall ninja.

 

[Jeff OTMG]

That must be a fictional story. Nobody would carry a holster that does not retain a pistol properly. Sure my guns will come out of their holsters on a draw, but not just fall out. No thumbbreak is necessary if the holster is properly constructed. A holster 'holds' a gun, this sounds like the gun was laying in a bag and the bag got tipped upside down.

A pocket holster is an exception.

 

[Guyon]

Does anyone have a pic of a mall stall ninja?

I sort of doubt it since these highly trained mall lurkers can disappear into a diaper station or a rack of clothing at will. Stealth personified.

 

[Nick1911]

Mall Ninja, LMAO! sounds like a rogue faction of Ninjaburger.
-Nick

 

[goon]

Well, this may be a little TMI for some of you but I will tell it anyhow.
For one, just unzip your fly when you pee. Your belt stays in place so your handgun will be OK.
When I sit down I flop my pistol (not my gun ) in and lay it on the inside of my pants. I carry IWB either in the small of my back or behind my right hip, so it works for me.

 

[BerettaNut92]

Mine clacks against the front (i.e. stained yellow) part of the johns all the time.

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