picking locks

[Jules Richardson]

On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 19:54 -0500, Ram Meenakshisundaram wrote:
>  It was a survival show and the person who drove his car into the lake tried
> very hard to open the door.  He kicked it, etc, etc.  It wont budge.  He
> finally took out his centerpunch and broke the side window.  He waited for
> the water to rush into the car and then he swam out of the window. So, based
> on that scenario, I doubt it would be possible to even open it a little
> bit...

So without the centre punch, don't you just wait for the car to almost
fill up and then open the door? Seems that the main advantage of the
centre punch is for when the doors won't open due to damage, though (and
presumably you're screwed if the doors are locked and you have central
locking)