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17th April 2024 Issue no. 701

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Locks are key to his line of work

By Tyler Ellyson

If there's one thing Craig Melliger has learned after more than three decades as a locksmith, it's to expect the unexpected.

Melliger, who works out of a shop at his home, knows a call for help can come at any time, but he's never really sure what that will entail. The master locksmith has been flown more than 100 miles on a small, personal aircraft for a job. He's responded after an Omaha woman accidentally flushed her pickup keys down the toilet in Columbus or pet passengers unexpectedly hit the automatic lock button. And Melliger has taken car doors completely apart to unlock the vehicles for flustered drivers.

There's really only one thing about each call to unlock a vehicle, house or business that remains the same. "A lot of people feel bad when they do it."

23rd May 2012