by whiteknight38 » 13 Feb 2007 16:03
I beg your pardon, but I have no idea what exactly these comments are meant to imply. But, yes, he’s cheating.
I have taken American 700 series locks apart, and there is absolutely no way that they can be picked by pushing the pins up with a bobby pin, unless the lock is a trick-lock such as the guy in the video shills at the magic store company mentioned in the video - Hersheymagic.com
A bypass system exists for American locks, but a bobby pin isn’t a substitute.
Why am I annoyed?
Partly because I hate stupid magic tricks. They help support the illusion that there IS such a thing as magic, and on a deep psychological level help to buttress beliefs in other foolish ideas, like Spiritualism, psychic powers, ghosts, angels, life after death, and 72 virgins to occupy your attention throughout eternity.
This guy is pretending to pick high-security lock, and saying that it’s easy.
He’s lying.
His phony video belittles what I do for a living.
People watching it, may well assume that picking a lock is easy, or just some kind of simple trick.
He’s demeaning not only me, but other people here who actually try to work on complex locks like this one, combating tiny, spool security drive pins, and pretty severe tolerances. Some guys at Toool, and on this list succeed regularly but it’s no cake walk.
And frankly, I don’t want to go to my next call involving one of these locks, and have to deal with someone who thinks opening one should be quick, clean, and easy, because chances are, I'm probably going to have to drill it.
These bozo’s at Hershey Magic, also sell gimmicked straight jackets, along with these gimmicked American Locks, for setting up totally fake escape scenarios. What a load of cr**.
Houdini could escape from a straight jacket by dislocating his shoulder, painfully wriggling out of the restraint, and popping his arm back into the socket. He’d do it suspended, chained under water, all kinds of extreme, high-risk stuff. One of these stunts finally killed him.
The idea that some soft-bellied high school kid can buy a gimmicked jacket, and pretend he’s part of a select peer group, is an outrageous slap in the face to the people who can actually do it for real.
If anyone wants, I can make them a lock with only three loaded chambers, and multiple stacks of master-wafer pins instead of drivers; one that will work normally with a key, but will pick instantly just by shoving a bobby pin into the keyway. They can call it magic, and run around showing their friends what a lock-pickin’ magician they are. But surely even a retarded person would get bored with that after a while wouldn’t they?
Sorry, if this post seems a little extreme, as perhaps it's not the most balanced thing I've ever submitted, but as I said, this stuff burns me.
