picking locks

[chris]

>> I haven't had very good luck with paper clips. A better tool is a used
>> dental pick, because this is tempered and holds up when you put stress on
>
>Or just buy a set of lock picks.  They're not expensive.  I think I
>paid under $15 for a reasonably nice set.

Depending on where you are, owning a lock pick set may be illegal if you 
do not have a reason to own one.

Last I knew, lock pick sets were illegal to own in NJ unless you are 
someone that has a "legal" use for one. Of course, since legal use isn't 
really defined, it leaves it pretty wide open. (It is also illegal to 
have a police scanner in your car, as well as carry a center punch... 
again, unless you have "legal" reasons for the above... of course, being 
a volunteer firefighter seems to get me past the legal requirements for 
all of the above... so naturally I own all the above... and carry a 
center punch in my car most all the time, as well as a lock pick set in 
my tool bag)

Of course, IANAL, and I could be mistaken on the laws, or the exact forms 
of them... but it is a heads up for those that may be planning to 
purchase a lock pick set and run around with it in their back pocket... 
they should just verify that they are allowed to do such before they find 
themselves being accused of being a terrorist ;-)

-chris
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