pennsylvania lockpick laws...

[bigbike]

The thing that I read out of the entire posted piece was that the locksmiths in Pa will administer the test. Now to me that means the "good ole boys (and gals)" who at the time the legislation was considered said, we can police ourselves (and anybody else who WANTS to get into the game) by making it so that they either HAVE to apprentice with one of us, or pay gobs of money to go to a 3 day course that only we know when it is being offered in order to get licensed.

Just my take on it.

[raimundo]

INTENT is a legal term, you have intent to commit a crime if you are carrying picks an have a previous conviction for burglary. If anyone charges you with intent under any other circumstances, you are doing yourself a great harm to be bullied into pleading guilty to it. Think of the case of 'intent to commit prostitution," This charge sticks to any woman who waits at a bus stop and lets a bus go by if she has a previous conviction for prostitution, and a cop wants to make the charge, As for possession, most of you guys are in possession of the basic equipment for rape, but intent is not provable just from this fact.

[digital_blue]

As for possession, most of you guys are in possession of the basic equipment for rape, but intent is not provable just from this fact.

Most of us guys?

[raimundo]

Just a few of the guys are girls, like rick the pick

[Dijijin]

Sup guys, I just got a lock picking set that fits in your wallet(from budk if anyone cares). I just went to a hardware store to grab a door handle to practice inside. Upon talking to the owner while he was selling me this, and told me about there's actually laws for them. Now i read the thread, & I was wondering about it if the wallet deal is on a different side of I guess suspicious or innocent. Also I was wondering if hiding it in my car would be a better place form them, rather then my pocket(Lol, I could see that being worse if they found it after already being pulled over).

Side note, I was wondering if when doing just regular tumbler door locks if it's better to start at the front or the back. When i tried it the first time I started front, took forever to get just the first to lock up. Next time, I though i wonder what happens if I flip it over & push all of them up, & slowly pull the pick out. Strangely enough i got 3 on the inside. Then after around 2-3 mins i got the first again, only to spend almost 5 mins of the last & then just gave up. Could it just be a case of the door being really old, or is the last almost always the hardest?

[Dijijin]

[quote="Dijijin"]Sup guys, I just got a lock picking set that fits in your wallet(from budk if anyone cares). I just went to a hardware store to grab a door handle to practice inside. Upon talking to the owner while he was selling me this, and told me about there's actually laws for them. Now i read the thread, & I was wondering about it if the wallet deal is on a different side of I guess suspicious or innocent. Also I was wondering if hiding it in my car would be a better place form them, rather then my pocket(Lol, I could see that being worse if they found it after already being pulled over).

Side note, I was wondering if when doing just regular tumbler door locks if it's better to start at the front or the back. When i tried it the first time I started front, took forever to get just the first to lock up. Next time, I though i wonder what happens if I flip it over & push all of them up, & slowly pull the pick out. Strangely enough i got 3 on the inside. Then after around 2-3 mins i got the first again, only to spend almost 5 mins of the last & then just gave up. Could it just be a case of the door being really old, or is the last almost always the hardest?[/quote]

PS just moved to PA