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Idiot bystanders
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Sat May 28, 2011 8:14 amby mdc5150
How do you deal with people who insist on telling you to do really stupid things?
I was unlocking a van yesterday in front of a hospital when a nurse (I thought these people were supposed to be smart) comes up to me and says "tennis ball". I knew instantly what she meant but played as if I didn't and responded "french toast". She asked me what I was talking about and I told her I thought it was a word association game. Then she goes on to tell me about the youtube myth of using a tennis ball to unlock cars. I asked her if I got sick and ended up in the hospital if she would try to use magic to heal me and she said of course not. I said well I saw it on youtube a nurse using magic to heal people. She got indignant and walked off.
I'm not one of those guys that is insecure about only a locksmith can unlock a car or any of that BS but it really does irk me when someone believes this kind of crap to begin with then tries to tell your customer that they could have unlocked it themselves with a tennis ball.
I know that myth started with the Volvo vacuum lock system but it didn't even work on those locks. How is it a grown adult thinks this stuff works?
Re: Idiot bystanders
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Sat May 28, 2011 8:35 amby HallisChalmers
mdchurchill wrote: How is a grown adults think this stuff works?
Re: Idiot bystanders
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Sat May 28, 2011 8:41 amby Oldfast
Churchill, now that's funny! Thanks for the laugh.
Re: Idiot bystanders
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Sat May 28, 2011 8:41 amby sandman
that was the funniest thing ive heard all week, way to keep your cool and sarcasm up to speed, im hardly ever quick enough to do that
Re: Idiot bystanders
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Sat May 28, 2011 9:30 amby magician59
I was unlocking my friend's safe last weekend, and he pulled the classic "stick-o-dynamite" comment.
Re: Idiot bystanders
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Sat May 28, 2011 9:33 amby the lockpickkid
I had a woman ask me about that once, she had just gotten a new car and wondered if somebody could steel it with the tennis ball trick, it took about 20 minutes to get through to here that it didn't work. Sometimes I really dislike old people, not just old but the ones that get to the point of dementia. I no longer do rekeys for the elderly because I see too much liability problems.
Re: Idiot bystanders
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Sat May 28, 2011 9:59 amby magician59
I remember a man who was locked out of a Lincoln Continental. Mad as hell that I was able to open it by picking the door lock. He said the salesman told him Nobody could break into that car.
Re: Idiot bystanders
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Sat May 28, 2011 10:56 amby Laporte
Mythbusters debunked that myth a long time ago, too.
She watches youtube, but doesn't watch Mythbusters?
This world is indeed going to shite.
Re: Idiot bystanders
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Sat May 28, 2011 11:48 amby chris
Not to mention the movie "The Next Three Days". That movie he tennis balled a van two or three times, he also cut down I think it was a SC1 or KW1 blank into a bump key (YouTube) and used it on a prison lock, that from what I could tell from the quick glance at the lock, was an ASSA Twin system.
Re: Idiot bystanders
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Sat May 28, 2011 2:01 pmby Idgas
You should consider carrying a tennis ball as part of your car opening kit for three reasons.
1 - you can use the tennis ball to distract a dog, child, or idiot
2 - tennis balls are great for a pick up game of stickball
3 - hand the tennis ball to the next person who recommends using it to open the door, bet them $100.00 that they can't (hell give them odds), and they will either walk away or you make a little extra money.
Bonus use: you can throw the ball at the idiot too.
Re: Idiot bystanders
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Sat May 28, 2011 3:41 pmby chris
Idgas wrote:You should consider carrying a tennis ball as part of your car opening kit for three reasons.
1 - you can use the tennis ball to distract a dog, child, or idiot
2 - tennis balls are great for a pick up game of stickball
3 - hand the tennis ball to the next person who recommends using it to open the door, bet them $100.00 that they can't (hell give them odds), and they will either walk away or you make a little extra money.
Bonus use: you can throw the ball at the idiot too.
awesome
Re: Idiot bystanders
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Sat May 28, 2011 4:15 pmby the lockpickkid
There is also a guy who comes into the store, he tells me that his boss has a Masterlock master key, and with that key he can open any Masterlock. I argued with him for a long time, and a couple of other times when he came in, he still sticks with his story. People are so dumb sometimes.
Re: Idiot bystanders
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Sat May 28, 2011 4:28 pmby mdc5150
Idgas wrote:You should consider carrying a tennis ball as part of your car opening kit for three reasons.
1 - you can use the tennis ball to distract a dog, child, or idiot
2 - tennis balls are great for a pick up game of stickball
3 - hand the tennis ball to the next person who recommends using it to open the door, bet them $100.00 that they can't (hell give them odds), and they will either walk away or you make a little extra money.
Bonus use: you can throw the ball at the idiot too.
I'm on my way to Wal-Mart right now to get a tennis ball. This is awesome.
Re: Idiot bystanders
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Sat May 28, 2011 4:33 pmby chris
the lockpickkid wrote:There is also a guy who comes into the store, he tells me that his boss has a Masterlock master key, and with that key he can open any Masterlock. I argued with him for a long time, and a couple of other times when he came in, he still sticks with his story. People are so dumb sometimes.
I would have tossed him some old ass Masterlock and told him to try it.
Re: Idiot bystanders
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Sat May 28, 2011 4:36 pmby mdc5150
the lockpickkid wrote:I had a woman ask me about that once, she had just gotten a new car and wondered if somebody could steel it with the tennis ball trick, it took about 20 minutes to get through to here that it didn't work. Sometimes I really dislike old people, not just old but the ones that get to the point of dementia. I no longer do rekeys for the elderly because I see too much liability problems.
I see you are in Oregon. I'm so glad that I'm here and not there. My problems this weekend are Californians losing keys to their cars, locking their keys in the car, and leaving the keys to the vacation home in California. I can get from one end of town to another in under 20 minutes right now. Come October all the people in Oregon and other cold weather states come here. My problems then are cheap old people who beg for senior discounts, (They've had all their life to save money and now they want a discount) want to tell me about all the medications they are taking, tell me about the size, length, weight, color, and consistency of their bowel movements, and it will take a solid hour to get from one side of town to the other.
But I still have to laugh every time I think of Jim Carrey saying "It really is true what they say, old people though slow and dangerous behind the wheel still can serve a purpose!"