And top it off with breaking and entering

Last night, Jake and I went to pick up his dad from the airport. We're almost back to the house when his dad realizes that he doesn't have any house keys and the rest of his family is in Florida with the spare keys.
Crap.
So we walked around the house for a little while, checking each door and window as we passed trying to find something open.
No luck.
It's now midnight and the guys are deciding whether or not they want to call a locksmith, break a window, stay on our couch, and whatever other options may have come up.
Then Jake finds a door on the garage that he could open (keep in mind, it wasn't unlocked, it was just one he COULD open). After he jimmy opens the garage side door. We are now in the garage. But the door into the house from the garage is locked and dead bolted.
Crap.
Jake decides he's going to go up into the attic and try to find another opening from the attic into the house.
No luck.
But he does find a return air vent. Jake unscrews the top of the return air and kicks open the vent cover on the inside of the house. Then we found a tow strap in the attic which he wraps one end around a beam in the attic and repelled down the return air vent.
SUCCESS, we're in the house.
It's the moments like this that I can't help but wonder whether this kind of ingenuity is a good thing or a bad thing.