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Postby X_Matt_X » 16 Feb 2007 22:10

besides, if i wanted to break into somewhere (which i don't) then i have the reasources and equipement just to blow the lock off (plasic explosives).
i am here because i am interested in the hobby, this is a NON-destructive site after all.
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Postby zeke79 » 16 Feb 2007 22:12

Yes you are right, but we are also an ethical site and there are no reasons to be taking picks to school. Plastic explosive at hand or not :roll: .
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Postby cjames73 » 16 Feb 2007 22:12

X_Matt_X wrote:besides, if i wanted to break into somewhere (which i don't) then i have the reasources and equipement just to blow the lock off (plasic explosives).
i am here because i am interested in the hobby, this is a NON-destructive site after all.

:lol: :lol: :lol:
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Postby X_Matt_X » 16 Feb 2007 22:13

got to go now, its 2:00 oer here and if i am the have anychance of getting some bicycle spokes i will have to sly off with all the stealthyness of a blind cat (hehehe).

cheers again guys, thanks for all the help, much appreiciated.

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Postby cjames73 » 16 Feb 2007 22:13

sorry for the double post but this thread just gets worse :?
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Postby zeke79 » 16 Feb 2007 22:14

That's it.... You are now talking about stealing spokes??? Clean up your act if you are going to stick around here. If you dont clean it up your stay here may be shorter than you expected.
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Postby cjames73 » 16 Feb 2007 22:17

X_Matt_X wrote:got to go now, its 2:00 oer here and if i am the have anychance of getting some bicycle spokes i will have to sly off with all the stealthyness of a blind cat (hehehe).

cheers again guys, thanks for all the help, much appreiciated.

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with a bit of luck you'll get nicked blowing the spokes off a BMX with your plastic explosives. :lol:
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Postby X_Matt_X » 16 Feb 2007 22:18

hehe before i go,

hehehe, james, if you like that, google "thermal lance" they use it to cut concrete.

a true lock picker in action:
http://www.tricee.co.za/images/new_images/13_thermal_lancing_action.jpg
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Postby X_Matt_X » 16 Feb 2007 22:19

hahahaha, that would be so ironic. well, i can just see u havin g fun at a conpetition with one of these. all these other guys with mounds of picks and u have wheeling one of these things.
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Postby X_Matt_X » 16 Feb 2007 22:21

wow, hey i never said i was gonna steal anything, i have a bike shop down the road from me, and i have no excuse to get some bike spokes. its either avoid my parents or trash my bike, i know which i'd preffer to try my hand at.
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Postby cjames73 » 16 Feb 2007 22:23

grow up matt.
carry on and you will be banned from this site as already mentioned.
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Postby illusion » 16 Feb 2007 22:23

If you carry picks on a train, then don't get them out at any point and don't give people any reason to search your bag. You really shouldn't carry them to be on the safe side, but instead leave them at home.

I also get a strange impression that you *may* have been reading the anarchist's cookbook - something about knowing how to make plastic explosives leads to such a guess... :lol:

Why would you have to be sly to get bike spokes? Just go down to the local tip/junk yard and you'll have endless supplies of old bicycle wheels to use.

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Postby zeke79 » 16 Feb 2007 22:24

X_Matt_X wrote:got to go now, its 2:00 oer here and if i am the have anychance of getting some bicycle spokes i will have to sly off with all the stealthyness of a blind cat (hehehe).

cheers again guys, thanks for all the help, much appreiciated.

Matt


How does that sound to you? Sounds like sneaking off to steal spokes to me. Maybe I misunderstood.....
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Postby TOWCH » 16 Feb 2007 22:26

Yes.

Do this the easy way and convince your parents. Whining won't do it. Make a presentation on the merits of lockpicking and support it by giving this demonstration as to why lockpicks are an ineffective means of stealing anyway: Make a bump key and bump your house lock. Then show them a video of the same lock being picked. Picking is clearly not an ideal means of non-destructive entry.

Then using pictures and video- teach them how locks work, how picking works, and how bumping works. Finally raise the point that this is a skill that when learned can serve you for the rest of your life when locked out of your house, and if pursued can eventually lead to job options.

I'm sure there's at least 1 responsible adult on here who will be your advocate if you asked them if they would be willing to answer questions from your parents.

All that said, asking us questions about being effectively deceitful is hardly the proper route to getting us to trust you, even if it does show incompetance in deception. I'd be a hypocrite I claimed I had never tried to pull the wool over my parents and other adult's eyes myself though. :lol: Good luck and behave yourself.
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Postby X_Matt_X » 16 Feb 2007 22:26

ah, whoa, what'd i do wrong? anyway i really gotta go. time flys u know and its half two over here, in the morning.

but before i go, i must reitterate, im not going to blow anything up, steal anything or otherwise break the law.

i just want to start a new hobby, nort cause trouble. anyway the plastic expolsive stuff was an unfunny joke, no offence intended. i can't make that sort of stuff.

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