maybe another way

[urich122]

I am a hobbiest picker. I have been picking for about 5 years now I first got started when I got a pick set from my uncle for christmas. untill then I had no idea what lockpicking was.Iv always been a mechanical person and I kinda go overboard on a lot of my "hobies". So since I picked up my first lock I havent put it down I can pretty mutch open any lock I get after.well yesterday my friends mother calls me in a panic,she locked her keys in her home office. this is not the first time Iv had to pick this lock.it is a perty dificult schlage. well she was late for something who knows whatand all I had was my little jack knive. I told her it would take a while and she freaked.so I got to thinking this lock has a lever type handle on the other side.oh yea this is a bouble door with a dummy handle on one side and one of those slide up locks on the inside,the kind you could break with a sneeze..................and a $40 schlage on a cardboard door?????? anyway thats a different storyit just so hapened that I keep a set of auto lock out tools under the bedliner of my truck for my other not so brite friends.I took out my wonder tool and with a little bit of shapeing I wedged it inbetween the doorand hooked the handle and she popped right open. i guss what Im trying to say is sometimes you just have to take a step back and look at the whole picture.


ps. I pick better than I spell lol

[pretender]

Good show, and...indeed...sometimes the simplest and most absurd possible answer is the ticket to getting something accomplished post haste.

Years ago, before I really got into any of this sort of thing in fact, my buddy's mom had gotten herself locked out of an SUV. 'Course, in illustrious Detroit most people can't afford a pack of gum, let alone calling a locksmith.

Buddy's going on and on about all the freeeakin' keeewl methods we could use to get it open, blah blah blah - about 5 minutes of that, I got fed up, grabbed a coathanger, modified it a little to deal with some vehicle-specific probs and had the junkheap open in 30 seconds.

Worst suggestion he had was ripping the lock cylinder out of the door entirely...I don't think so, Batman.