Celebrity Pickers

[Claustrarius]

Okay, this is perhaps a slightly frivolous posting but I thought it might be of some interest.

Anyhoo, having a rather drunken conversation at the pub last night the subject of hobbies came up and I mentioned that I'd just started learning how to pick locks. Rather than the surprise I'd expected, one of the physicists I was chatting to said, "Oh yeah, Richard Feynmann picked locks as a hobby too."

Turns out Richard Feynmann was a Nobel Physics prize winner, worked on developing the atomic bomb and investigated the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. Pretty high power genius.

Maybe not a household name but definitely a celebrity of some note, so I got to wondering whether anybody knew of any other celebrities who pick locks?

Any takers?

[raimundo]

King Louis XVI was a hobby locksmith. Feynman was a specialist in safecracking in NDE meaning.
Locks along with clocks were the earliest mechanical machines. very likely some polymath like Da Vinci or Newton may have dabbled with such things as there were very few mechanical things in their periods of history. Oxcarts were the pickup trucks of those days.
Somebody got any other celibrity pickers, Heres two obscure references to pickers that you may or may not find on the internet. I have refered to both before in past posts,
H. Edward Tickel and James Clark.
See what you can find about them and lockpicking.
Are ya stumped?

[UWSDWF]

H. Edward Tickel

and no clue about James Clark

[quicksilver]

Was not Clark the fellow involved in the Kryponite Lock opening issue?

http://www.intuitive.com/blog/debunking ... phere.html

[NickBristol]

There's Sergey Brin of Google fame too of course.... celebrity is stretching it a bit (in the Hello! magazine sense) but he's definitely a high-profile picker.

[raimundo]

sergy brin, I wonder if hes a lp101 member? or does he have people that do that for him James Clark for those still interested, is the name associated with the legend of having picked a lot of the old fortress payphone locks. which if true is a feat. what did he use. ???

[Eyes_Only]

Barry Wells?

[blake1803]

Feynman talks about picking a little bit in his book "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" There's a funny story about his "cracking" a safe, too. It's been years since I've read his books but they're worth reading... he was a very unique mind, quite a character.