The Locked In Gym Robber

Stockholm, 2010. A former gym member identifies the perfect window: Saturday night to Monday morning. Thirty-six hours of free run at the safe in the manager's office. He climbs onto the roof. Removes a ventilation cover. Crawls twelve metres along an industrial duct. Drops into the men's changing room. He has tools, a torch, and — for some reason — a sandwich. The sandwich proves wise. Because the moment he crosses into the main gym, the changing room door clicks shut behind him. Magnetic. Then the front door. Magnetic. Every door in the building. Magnetic. Released only by a security panel he does not have the code for. He is locked in. Until Monday morning. Fifty-six hours. With access to the smoothie bar fridge. The deputy manager, opening up on Monday at seven AM, finds a tired man on a bench drinking a protein shake, who quietly asks to be arrested. Kit and Eden on electromagnetic locks, the importance of an exit plan, and the burglar who left a Stockholm gym in measurably better physical shape than he entered it.