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(QCTimes)   Looks like you can use Bic pens to pick all sorts of other locks. Such as Coke machines   (qctimes.com) divider line 111
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Warm and Fuzzy
2004-09-25 10:59:37 AM
I used to be able to pick tumbler type bike locks, but was too chicken to steal anything.
 
Elvis Nixon
2004-09-25 11:01:42 AM
If I don't see you more in this world, it'l be on the next one and don't be farked.
 
alcoholic_entropy
2004-09-25 11:06:02 AM
2004-09-25 11:01:42 AM Elvis Nixon

If I don't see you more in this world, it'l be on the next one and don't be farked.

huh?? Dude, try coffee.
 
b1t r0t
2004-09-25 11:06:36 AM
It was only a matter of time... first laptop locks, then bicycle locks, then the world. Good thing I don't like tubular locks and don't have anything that uses them.



/Oh noes! Someone killed the Bic man! Fatality!
 
jpboaty
2004-09-25 11:07:18 AM
He seems to be really scared about his kids getting his guns.

Guess he better start talking nicer to 'em real quick like.
 
imnotknow01
2004-09-25 11:07:22 AM
Where does it say anything about Coke machines? Misleading link.
 
jpboaty
2004-09-25 11:08:35 AM
Disk brake locks on motorcycles too...
 
General Specific
2004-09-25 11:10:06 AM
Who else is going out to buy dozens of these pens before they're recalled?
 
jpboaty
2004-09-25 11:10:16 AM
The guy should calm down, if the kids were going to kill
him, they would have choked him to death by now, or put
some dirt in his toothpaste.
 
hubiestubert [TotalFark]
2004-09-25 11:18:32 AM
When I was in Germany in the 80's, all the locks that were used on storage on base could all be bypassed with a paper clip--apparently a "safety" feature in case of real emergency, or the lack of the proper key/NCOIC. In high school, I learned a trick to tumble MasterLock combination locks with a piece of wire. Nothing new here, just another in ceaseless evolution of design versus environment. Soon enough, when the problem gets fixed, another enterprising person will come along and learn how to bust that...and hopefully be hired on by a firm to use their powers of intrusion for good.
 
l0g0ut
2004-09-25 11:22:18 AM
anybody tried this with steering lock or brake pedal lock in a car?
 
Bhruic
2004-09-25 11:22:54 AM
Where does it say anything about Coke machines? Misleading link.

...

Im guessing well be seeing Bic pens sticking out of vending machines, pay phones and file cabinets all over the place, he said.

Admittedly, "Coke" and "vending" aren't identical, but as "Coke" is a subset of "vending", I think it's close enough to discount the "misleading" tag.
 
Chuckdiesel
2004-09-25 11:25:37 AM
dang..now im gonna have to try it. What lock to pick first hmmm
 
ubermensch
2004-09-25 11:26:07 AM
It's actually true, read it in another article somewhere last week. Anything with a cylindrical key is vulnerable. Bike locks, pop machines, gun cabinets...let your imagination run wild!
 
3horn
2004-09-25 11:27:18 AM
Admittedly, "Coke" and "vending" aren't identical, but as "Coke" is a subset of "vending", I think it's close enough to discount the "misleading" tag.

Well, since the article was about a gun safe and not a vending machine, I still think it's miselading, even if they all use tubular locks.

Personally, I find the ability to unlock a gun safe much more disturbing than unlocking a vending machine.

3Horn
 
Tell Them I Hate Them
2004-09-25 11:28:08 AM
 
HazMatt
2004-09-25 11:28:54 AM
From the article: "The man asked that only his first name, Mark, be used in this article, fearing that publishing his identity and the fact that he has guns in his home could invite trouble."

I thought guns make you safer?

Ah, just kidding. Got nothing against guns, and think it's good that this guy is putting a lot of effort in keeping them out of his kids' hands.
 
Codyl
2004-09-25 11:33:14 AM
And because no one has said it yet...

"If you outlaw bic pens, only outlaws will have bic pens."

:-)

Cody
 
adm_crunch
2004-09-25 11:34:13 AM

Colonel "Bat" Guano still prefers his M1-Carbine method.

/You're gonna have to answer to the Coca Cola Company.
 
3horn
2004-09-25 11:35:23 AM
Bhruic. Okay, I'm a dumbass, always read all the way to the bottom of the article.

Still, I would have played up the gun safe story before the vending machine if I were the submitter.

3Horn
 
E.S.Q.
2004-09-25 11:41:20 AM
Another sweet source of secret revenue lost to the masses...
 
E.S.Q.
2004-09-25 11:44:10 AM
... at least my coin-op washing machine lid, payphone coin release mechanism and reverse postage hacks are still safe... =P
 
Cornelius Flockhart
2004-09-25 11:44:42 AM
Ironically, you can also use a gun to open a pen cabinet.
 
blackom
2004-09-25 11:55:22 AM
(Taping a note to my monitor...)

Be back in 15 mins. Went to OfficeMax to get... uh... supplies. Also will be getting some soda for the office, free guns and bicycles on the way back.
 
PeterNorth
2004-09-25 11:57:31 AM
the clickable ones have a bigger diameter than the cap-type, no?
 
starwarserawk
2004-09-25 12:03:16 PM
ubermensch... years upon years ago, did you happen to be on midwest access online (a.k.a. mao)? curiosity after months of posting from a familiar name...
 
Albert Frankenstein
2004-09-25 12:04:21 PM
I imagine 14 year old farkers are going to read this and shoot up their schools.


/needs his prozac
 
pox05
2004-09-25 12:06:24 PM
can some one give me the link for the first story, the one with the video?
 
Albert Frankenstein
2004-09-25 12:08:38 PM
I thought I was going to learn how to break into a Coke machine.

Misleading headlines make me a very sad panda.
 
vegasj
2004-09-25 12:10:50 PM
why break into them... just spit water through a straw into the dollar bill collector and it'll short out.... giving you masses of coke... plus change back.
 
smcallis
2004-09-25 12:12:34 PM
vegasj

That stopped working years ago, and it was saltwater.
 
vegasj
2004-09-25 12:13:11 PM
hmmm... regular water worked a few times.... so , er,.... I heard
 
vegasj
2004-09-25 12:13:54 PM
...but yeah, that was years ago... like over 7
 
smcallis
2004-09-25 12:16:43 PM
It was good times while it worked though, I remember snack machines that used to have bad springs in the little flap the folds up when you reach in for your candy, so you could force it back down and reach the bottom two rows of crap. Grab the springs and they popped right out, raining down goodies.
 
Lee Harvey Osmond
2004-09-25 12:20:29 PM
Oh.......crap!

/don't ask why.
 
drgruney
2004-09-25 12:22:10 PM
I love picking locks. My roommate locked his keys in his room the other day and was freaking out. I had his room unlocked in about 5 minutes. Now he doesn't bother locking the door cause he figures if I did care enough it wouldn't stop me.
 
Omeganet
2004-09-25 12:23:11 PM
This is why almost all vending machines have an additional hinge installed with a padlock on the side. I don't know why this is news - I was doing this 15 years ago to play games on a 286 at school when they would lock the computers after class.
 
Comatose
2004-09-25 12:28:28 PM
Given how many vending machinecompanies are mob run, well, I'd be real careful about breaking into them. Just sayin
 
TheBishop!!
2004-09-25 12:42:35 PM
To see how the pen in the lock works go to link(NSFW)!!!


http://www.consumptionjunction.com/content/detail.asp?ID=38314&type=1&page=1&f av=0
 
dfn_doe
2004-09-25 01:02:15 PM
The headline is a little misleading, most vending machines require the tumbler to be rotated 270degrees and require all the pins to remain at their split points for the entiretity of the rotation. These types of locks are designed for a resisting all but the most determined thieves and vandals....
 
JoeyJoJo
2004-09-25 01:13:43 PM
I used three different kinds of pens, he said. I need to be thorough. Ive got three kids living in my house.

Does this mean I can't use any pens as I do not have any kids living in my house?

/where's my wife? we need to start making kids so I can start protecting myself... from... them...
 
farktimenow
2004-09-25 01:15:07 PM
This story has 2 endings: People won't be buying barrel locks and pic will be selling more pens.
 
puckhead
2004-09-25 01:30:58 PM
time to raise the price on Bic pens, methinks.

Bic [tm], the Swiss Army Pen
 
SargeZT
2004-09-25 01:32:15 PM
I've tried it on a coke machine. It doesn't work because the barrel rotates many, MANY times which prevents the pen from doing anything.
 
evaned
2004-09-25 01:40:59 PM
What? You mean locks can be picked? Ahhhhhhhhh!!
 
dupper
2004-09-25 01:44:43 PM
TheBishop!!

Woo! CJ!
 
iAmThatGuy
2004-09-25 01:53:56 PM
I don't see what the big deal is.
 
legoflass
2004-09-25 02:06:53 PM
Need to get a bigger lock on my porn stash...
 
Nothing Speshel
2004-09-25 02:08:27 PM
Man, I want to learn how to lock pick now.
 
Unda
2004-09-25 02:09:14 PM
Has anyone tried picking their Chastity Belt locks (safe?) yet?
 
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