Working long hours at a job, you hope you have a private place to put your belongings. However, at this hospital, a finite amount of lockers made space a precious commodity.

When a threatening note thwarted one employee’s effort to claim a locker, they decided to play along, meeting their malice with a little mischief.

Read on for the full story

It’s no one’s locker.

I started working at a hospital a few years ago.

A majority of the staff is female and somehow the male lockers by the ICU are used by security.

Security used to be by the UIC, but they deactivated the ER and security stay in the front lobby.

I needed a locker.

They thought finding one would be simple enough.

They were a few not marked or had a lock on them, so I took a vacant one.

But they were wrong.

About two days later, there is a note on the locker stating, “You unlawfully removed items from this locker! This locker is not assigned to you! Remove your items and lock or the lock will be cut.”

I asked myself, “How can I make this worse?”

They weren’t going to give up that easily.

I found a “lawful” vacant locker adjacent to my unlawfully conquered locker. Also, I found a lock that wasn’t being used.

They decided to fight the naysayers’ hostility with humor.

I printed out a meme of Judge Dredd yelling out, “I did not break the law. I am the law.”

Another meme below of Judas Priest, “Breaking the law. Breaking the law.”

Taped both pictures on the locker and locked it with unknown lock.

Which kicked off quite the witch-hunt.

Three days passed and head of security was asking all male staff who is occupying this locker. No one came forward.

She claimed that the security officers stuff was in there and that is was stolen, etc.

This was hardly true.

My conscience: That’s a darn lie and you know it.

Head of security asks should the culprit be given more time to come forward.

They play along, all the while knowing the truth.

Me: OH, absolutely not. SERVE THEM SOME JUSTICE.

Head of security used a bolt cutters and voila! Nothing in there.

Me: Hmmm, same result as the mystery of Al Capones vault.

This mystery turned out to be quite anticlimactic.

What did Reddit think?

People are just unbelievable sometimes.

They could have had even more fun with it!

Like most witch-hunts, this one turned up nothing noteworthy.

When the locker was finally cut open, the only thing missing was the truth.

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