--- title: Couple Spent Two Days in Closet Before Realizing It Wasn't Locked description: They called 911 saying they were trapped canonical: https://time.com/3652503/couple-closet-not-locked/ author: Sarah Begley article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-02T19:54:20.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:15:39.236Z og:title: Couple Spent Two Days in Closet Before Realizing It Wasn't Locked og:description: They called 911 saying they were trapped og:url: https://time.com/3652503/couple-closet-not-locked/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Couple Spent Two Days in Closet Before Realizing It Wasn't Locked twitter:description: They called 911 saying they were trapped twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Couple Spent 2 Days Trapped in a Closet That Wasn't Actually Locked by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Jan 2, 2015 7:54 PM UTC by [Sarah Begley](https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Jan 2, 2015 7:54 PM UTC We all struggle with locks sometimes, but usually the struggle ends before 48 hours have passed. A Florida couple [called 911 on Tuesday](http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-couple-closet-daytona-state-college-20141231-story.html) saying they’d been chased into a closet on the campus of Daytona State College and had been locked in for two days. But when the police arrived on the scene, the door was not locked. Police discovered human feces in the closet, as well as copper scouring pads that the Orlando _Sentinel_ reports are sometimes used as crack-smoking paraphernalia. No drugs were found. John Arwood, 31, and Amber Campbell, 25, were charged with trespassing. It is not the first brush with law enforcement for either person. A police officer tested the door by entering the closet and closing it behind him. It did not lock. \[[_Orlando Sentinel_](http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/breaking-news/os-couple-closet-daytona-state-college-20141231-story.html)\] _Read next:_ [_Florida Woman Slaps 72-Year-Old Who Denied Her Facebook Request_](http://time.com/3641764/facebook-friend-denial-slap-battery/?xid=time%5Freadnext) [_Listen to the most important stories of the day._](http://time.com/newsletter/the-brief/?sl%5Fautoplay=true&xid=spl-fullbrief-article) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3652503/couple-closet-not-locked/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3652503/couple-closet-not-locked/"},"headline":"Couple Spent 2 Days Trapped in a Closet That Wasn't Actually Locked","datePublished":"2015-01-02T19:54:20.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:15:39.236Z","description":"They called 911 saying they were trapped","url":"https://time.com/3652503/couple-closet-not-locked/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Crime","Bizarre","Florida"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3652503/couple-closet-not-locked/","name":"Couple Spent 2 Days Trapped in a Closet That Wasn't Actually Locked"}}]}] ```