Reddit Users Share Their Most Unusual MacGyver Moments

"Me and my friend went to a ski slope in his old Skoda (86 model, looked like a 60s car). It was cold that night and after the skiing the doors of the Skoda had all frozen. My friend fixed it by pulling the rubber seal of one of the windows, he then proceeded to pee through the gap by the window onto the locking mechanism inside the door so he could unlock it. Problem solved."

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"In middle school I found a stash of rubber bands, like in the thousands in a janitor closet. Give a 7th grader a thousand rubber bands, and he can engineer a gun out of anything."

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"On a San Francisco – Paris business flight about 10 years ago:

"One hour after take off or so, a flight attendant announces the AV system is down and the 400+ passengers won't be able to watch any movies for the remaining 10 hours. The passengers suddenly look like someone just died in the plane.

"I don't care I'm reading that really good book. After a couple of hours I am getting tired of this book and ...well, since I am a video engineer propose my services to the head steward to 'take a look at your video system of yours.'

"The thing won't power up. It's rack mounted. [I took] four screws off with a plastic knife, re-seated it inside its rack which is a little bent by using some folded cardboard (no power cord, it's power-on-contact), shake it a tad, screw it back in, push power button, TA-DAAA! The thing is back to life.

"The steward announces to the whole plane the great news, I am a "hero" and get free champagne for the rest of the flight. I walk back under heavy applause to my seat saluting my 3 clients seated a few rows behind me. I am the motherf--king hero of flight AF 480."

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"When i would get in trouble as a youth of 14 or 15, my mom had a lock box with a keypad entry system where she would keep my effects (GameBoy, phone, laptop, etc).

"One night, while I was grounded, I collected dust from our grandfather clock and coated the keypad in it. I asked my mom if she could help me wash some grapes in the kitchen, and then asked to use my phone to call a friend about a group project. The water on her fingers cleaned the dust off of 4 numbers, and then it was just a matter of trying the different combinations to discover the code."

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"Helping my buddy and his wife clean up their new place, there was an old padlock on a hasp that couldn't be removed in any convenient way. I determined it was a pin tumbler-type lock. I ask him for a paperclip, and while they were making fun of me I calmly broke the clip into two pieces, inserted one as a tension tool, then used the other to rake the pins above the sheer line and about 30 seconds later – pop! – i had the lock open.

"Tossed the lock to my buddy and went outside for a smoke without even glancing at them. Bond. James Bond."

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"One time I was out camping and after firing up the grill, we realized that we did not have a spatula. As a solution, I shoved a beer can over the end of a stick and smashed it with a rock. It worked like a charm."

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"I was on a date once and I had a rusted out 1974 Impala. I had to un-stick the butterfly valve on the carburetor, so I used my mascara wand to unjam it."

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"I used part of a coat hanger to replace the underwire in my bra a few times. When you have G cups, it's worth fixing rather than blowing $60+ every time the underwire breaks or tears through the fabric."

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"Was backpacking and slipped down a cliff. I ripped open my chest pretty good and was about two days from medical. I had a basic sewing kit in my backpack and stitched myself up. The stitching held until I got back to civilization a couple days later and the doctors commented on how good my stitches were. Still have a big scar, but it is an awesome story."

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"I was driving a Mercedes 240D and ran out of gas. Couldn't get the thing to start, apparently it had vapor lock. I happened to have a water pistol in the car, so I put some diesel in it, opened up the air intake, and squirted fuel into the air intake while my friend turned the ignition. Started right up."

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