For the purpose of stopping the "zipper effect", a bolt is omnidirectional.
I'm simply being a smartass.
Most bolts are wonderfully omni, but there are those ones that I wouldn't even trust to hold a downward pull, let alone an outward, that's the ones I was thinking of.
My reference to you not geting out was just the bitterness creeping out. Oh, and I figured that maybe you hadn't seen enough of the old buttonheads.