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How to Defeat Security at Most Radio Stations: Donuts

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Then, to leave our building there’s a second procedure. Trying to just open the door doesn’t work because it’s in state of perpetual lock down. Leaving our building is more like breaking out of a POW camp. There’s a green button near the door. Press the button and wait 3 seconds. The door will unlock and then you have 5 seconds to free yourself otherwise, the sound of steel ripples through the walls, the door locks again and you’re imprisoned in a radio station version of “The Cube”. Oh God help me I just want to go to lunch!!!

The Donut Enigma

Back to the donuts. With all the security measures I’ve circumnavigated and even the lack of security I’ve encountered, it never fails to amaze me how donuts break through all barriers.

I’ll be sitting in the studio doing my show on a typical morning when strangers will walk past the soundproof studio window carrying boxes of donuts either for me or for the other morning shows at the various stations in my hallway.

How do they get it in? What about the 5-second-door and the green button and the cameras and the scary “Do Not Enter Radio Personnel Only” sign?

Meaningless!

People with donuts get past security guards, rent-a-cops, video surveillance, and just about any other security measure you throw at them.

What’s worse, it speaks less of radio people and more of our personal priorities. Protect the radio station?

Well, okay – unless they’re crème filled.

As Homer Simpson once said: "Donuts. Is there anything they can't do?"

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