Sun Oct 23, 2011 5:05 am by The Doctor
The first Lock I picked. Well, let me give you some back story first. I have always been interested in lock picking. Once, when I was about 6 years old, I just out of the blue looked at a lock and wanted to pick it. I stuck a paper clip in my garage door deadbolt and wiggled it around for a while. I got bored, and went to go play in the tree-house or something. The next experience I had was when I was 13. My friend was locked out of his house and called to see if I could pick locks. Now, I knew I couldn't pick it, but I was always very good at getting into things. So I went over anyway. Pretending Like I knew what I was doing, I peered into the keyhole. "Nope, But I'll find another way in." So after 15 minutes of screwing around with his window (almost got it), the impatient lad got angry. He said and I quote
"Kick this Fucking Door In!" So the door came crashing down and I went home. The next time I had a lock picking encounter was when I was 15. My friend had lock picks, the first real lock picks I ever held. I was astonished. He told me "Turn this that way, and push and pull with this" It was some deadbolt. Never got it open. Good thing too. Anyway, next I was 17. This was It. My whole life I had been fascinated by spies, FBI, CIA, Green Berets, Navy SEALS, Matt Damon in the Bourne Identity, and Special Agent Fox Mulder in the X-Files. Basically, I was fascinated with covert operations, and the ability to go where others fear to tread. Including behind locked doors. I looked at lock picking as a mandatory skill of the secret agent. Another one of his tools in the art of stealth, infiltration, and deception. So I decided, this is it, I will become one of the few trained in the art. It will make me a God among mortals. So I went on YouTube and watched a couple videos (So Anti-Climactic!). I got a good grasp of the mechanics. I then found and old, crappy, made in china, generic 40mm padlock with no company markings. You know the one. Then I went and made a tension wrench out of a uni-ball pen clip and got a safety pin for a lock pick. I applied slight tension, and used a jiggling motion with my "pick". (I still use that method instead of raking). It didn't open. I did that for over an hour. I lost all hope. Then, POP! "Huzzah!" (I didn't really say that). Turns out the lock had something wrong with one of the springs or something. It was Just so cheap and shitty, that it was actually hard to pick. However I didn't know that at the time. Well, anyway, I went and bought a Master Lock to see if all locks were so pick resistant (LOL). I tried it, and boom the master opened instantly. That started my picking. Well, my raking, or should I say jiggling. I didn't REALLY learn to pick before I came to "keypicking.com". Wow.This is turning into an endorsement/advertisement/success story. I'm The_Doctor and I approve this message.
Sorry for running so long. Its 4:56 am I have nothing better to do. Anyway, I think you all know of the "made in china 40mm piece of shit no-name lock" I am talking about, but I will try to get a picture posted later. Until Then, Later! Good Pickings!