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Post by librarylady on May 27, 2024 14:35:29 GMT
TV shows often show someone pulling out a hair pin or paper clip and popping open the lock.
I would have no idea on what to do. I think modern shows even show the lock opening when a credit card is slipped in, in a particular way on a specific kind of lock.
All the dead bolts being used in modern times will eliminate this skill in the future.
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Post by smasonnc on May 27, 2024 15:35:30 GMT
I'm not an expert, but I have been able to unlock doors and desk drawers after watching a YouTube video. The credit card thing almost never works.
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Rhondito
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Post by Rhondito on May 27, 2024 15:47:40 GMT
With a paperclip or the like - no. But I can open some door handle locks with a credit card.
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Post by melanell on May 27, 2024 15:50:01 GMT
I have picked certain locks in my life, but all were different type of interior door locks. When faced with a locked exterior door, I never managed to pick the lock successfully.
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Post by craftedbys on May 27, 2024 16:33:36 GMT
I have been picking the interior door licks in my house since I was a child.
We had a thin, flat key that would unlock them, and Mom put it up where us kids couldn't get to it. So, I learned to use a bobby pin at an early age.
Heh, that taught my sister she couldn't take my stuff and then lock her room so ai couldn't get it back.
Now that I own the house, the key is put where it is accessible, jic. And yes, I did teach my children how to use it, not that they would ever need to.
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Post by Lexica on May 27, 2024 17:22:02 GMT
The only lock that I have ever opened without a key is the bathroom door. The “key” provided for that type of lock just looked like a flat small screwdriver to me. So when my son accidentally pulled the door shut when the lock had been turned, it was a simple matter to just grab a small screwdriver to open the door. My son thought I was a genius until I explained that bathroom doors are unlike a regular door lock that takes its own specific key to open. I locked it again and had him try it after I drew a diagram of what was inside the doorknob so that he knew what he was to feel for. He got it quite quickly. And of course I had to follow up on that new skill he had with a warning that if he ever unlocked a bathroom door when there was someone using that bathroom, I would make sure he would be a very sorry young man.
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Post by littlemama on May 27, 2024 18:51:56 GMT
Pick a lock? No.
But when we lived in our apartment, I could unlock the front door with a very specific supermarket points card. Credit cards are too thick, fyi
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Post by Linda on May 27, 2024 19:20:24 GMT
the sort of locks where you just pop them unlocked with a screwdriver? yes
the sort of locks that open with a credit card? also yes
deadlocks? no
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Post by iowgirl on May 27, 2024 21:04:20 GMT
I've bumped locks with a hammer and key and cut padlocks with bolt cutters. Never for nefarious reasons, just needed the door or gate open and the key was long gone.
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Post by freecharlie on May 27, 2024 23:57:02 GMT
Yes, I've picked locks with paper clips and other metal objects. I've also used a credit card for specific doors.
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Post by milocat on May 28, 2024 0:25:24 GMT
The doors in a house where you can use a small screwdriver or take a ballpoint oen apart and use it, yes. Anything else, no.
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Post by dizzycheermom on May 28, 2024 1:35:29 GMT
I have used the credit card trick successfully several times. Either was babysitting and the code didn't work, or picking up other kids to take them to sports and they forget shoes or something in the house. I only use my power for good!
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