So, I basically missed that transitional phase when telephone booths were more commonplace. This has left me with a number of questions about the ol' telephone booths, but this one strikes me as one of the funnier and more unnerving ones to ask.
Was it possible to get locked in a telephone booth? Did some models have locks to keep folks from messing with them? If so, who...Would manage the locks? Local authorities & the phone companies?
Were there any notable stories of a person somehow getting trapped in a telephone booth in otherwise ordinary circumstances (i.e. no disaster had struck)?
Just for the record, Dr Who’s TARDIS is a police box. They had call boxes on the outside, and were a place for beat coppers to take breaks, fill out reports or lock up some one they’ve arrested while waiting for transport back to the station.