Embarassing Handcuff Story

by **RichVR** » 20 Jan 2005 1:24

So I was young (okay youngER) and I had this pair of cheap handcuffs.

I got really good a picking them with a bent hairpin. It got to the point that I could pick them behind my back. So I would show off to my friends.

One day my cousin came to visit from Arizona. After a few beers. And a shot or three of Jack, I told him to cuff me with my hands behind me. I had the hairpin I usually used in my palm. I'm frickin' Houdini, see?

I get the pin into one of the locks and the end breaks off.

Of course, I'd been picking the cuffs for so long I can't remember where the key is.

I begged him to get the vise grip and a screw driver. Like I said the cuffs were cheap. The links weren't welded. Eventually, he bent one of the links open and I got the cuffs off. Then I had to use a safety pin to unlock the actual cuff parts.

He wasn't impressed for some reason...

I guess this is on topic for "do not try."

by **begginerlockpicker** » 23 Jan 2005 12:38

haha thats pretty funny :lol:

...I have tried to get a pair of cuffs for about an hour but gave up. I like more complicated locks better.

by **Mr Ules** » 23 Jan 2005 23:56

I had something similar happen. I was heading home one day with a friend and so I decided to show him my trick. I, aswell, used a hair pin. However, I droped it when I went to pull it out of my sleeve. And , I couldn't find the keys. They were somewhere in my jacket and I couldn't find them with my hands behind my back. The problem with my cuffs is that I customized them so that they would be incredibly hard to escape from. This of course, wasn't my finest hour.

by **raimundo** » 24 Jan 2005 10:33

when I was a young locksmith in san francisco, hand cuff lost key problems would sometimes arrive in the shop at the counter, often accompanied by their partner. Usually we sold them the key. It was pretty easy to see that they were not escaped desparados.

by **RichVR** » 24 Jan 2005 23:37

raimundo,

Just curious. How many were of the "fur lined" handcuff type? Perhaps the cuffed person was unable to put on a shirt?

I know, I'm a perv...

by **Romstar** » 25 Jan 2005 0:48

You might be a perv, but I would be curious about that as well.

There are some few locksmiths who have a special "contract" with certain clubs and social organizations. If you know where I am heading....... :wink:

Later,
Romstar

by **WhiteHat** » 25 Jan 2005 1:52

the fur-lined ones usually have safety release latches that you can undo yourself - because of it's stickyoutness there's usually an additional leaver that you turn which is less accessable that disables the emergency release - in effect making it so that you need to move two levers to escape from the cuffs - easy to do by yourself but it removes the possibility that they come off accidentaly during uh... frolicking....

erm... not that I'd know of course.

oh, and they also have a key - but that's no fun...

by **guard70** » 25 Jan 2005 2:59

Regular cuffs are easy to pick. It can be done with a plastic comb as long as they aren't double locked. however, check out this set of high security cuffs. http://www.copsplus.com/prodnum2216.php

I think Master also came out with a high end pair of cuffs in the last year or so...

by **raimundo** » 25 Jan 2005 9:16

that was in the early 70's, sort of before the era of furry cuffs. just the typical 'peerless' style.

by **Luke** » 25 Jan 2005 9:53

Mmmm fluffy hand cuffs.

by **jason** » 26 Jan 2005 13:27

Luke, was that mmmmm fluffy handcuffs - a mmmmmm beeeer type mmmmmm? or was it mmmmm that's an unusual idea mmmmm?

Enquiring minds want to know

by **raimundo** » 26 Jan 2005 14:37

93bux for a handcuff with a three pin medeco, thats cool, you don't see three pin medecos much, IBM used to put them on computers, I have a bunch of the keys somewhere. Three pin medecos can probably be picked, unlike the six and seven pin ones. Some of our people might want to get these. However, Clejuso #15's have a certain panache, and I would like to get some of those East German (DDR) handcuffs, with the lever tumbler lock. If anyone know how much they cost?

by **Luke** » 26 Jan 2005 17:56

That was an Mmmmmm women. Mmmm Jason. I need both

by **RichVR** » 26 Jan 2005 22:20

Whitehat,

You have a lot of "theoretical" knowledge on the subject. No doubt from years of "reading up", eh? :roll:

by **PickPick** » 27 Jan 2005 9:46

With all fur lined cuffs I have seen yet, the small lever is not a safety release but a deadlocker, if it's engaged the cuffs can't be tightened further. But since these cuffs are usually terribly flimsy, the lever won't stay in position and so the cuffs can be accidentally tightened further, which can cause acute pain, nerve damage and worst of all it usually ends the session. I'd never play with these. At the moment I'm looking for some affordable Clejusos or maybe KB cuffs, because they have that lovely old Darbies look.

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