picking locks

[Geoff Reed]

At 05:49 AM 3/6/2005, you wrote:
>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)


I have a Smith & Wesson knife i carry around, it has an interesting feature 
on it, i has a spring loaded punch that will shatter car windows... a lot 
of first aid crews carry them for cutting seatbelts and breaking windows.