How many times have you seen this scenario on television or in the
movies? A private detective/nosy neighbor/group of meddling kids needs
to get into a penthouse apartment/detached garage/office of a bankrupt
amusement park owner but when he/she/they try the door it’s locked.
Instead of giving up and letting the case/gossip/mystery go
uninvestigated a credit card is confidently pulled from a wallet and
inserted into the space between the door frame and lock. A wiggle, a
jiggle, and "click" the door pops open.
Hollywood makes the
art of picking a lock with a plastic laminated card look so easy, but
tell that to the Blockbuster Video Card I mangled unsuccessfully trying
to retrieve my filched stapler from the locked office of my company
nemesis. Is there anyone out there excluding members of the Screen
Actors Guild who can actually jimmy a door open with a credit card;
anyone besides children from New Jersey I mean?
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