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** 2024: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X2PuE6ELmg Video 1588]] shows how "My 36 Inch King Dick Wrecks Locks!", the "King Dick" in question being a pipe wrench.

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** 2024: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X2PuE6ELmg Video 1588]] shows how "My 36 Inch King Dick Wrecks Locks!", the "King Dick" in question being a pipe wrench. Mention is also made of an "eight-inch Wang", a "Rigid 10-inch" and a "14-inch Johnson" with "a bend near the head".
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** 2024: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7X2PuE6ELmg Video 1588]] shows how "My 36 Inch King Dick Wrecks Locks!", the "King Dick" in question being a pipe wrench.
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** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Skcki5nIaOw Video 1447]] doesn't involve any traditional lockpicking. Because the lock is a Rubik's cube that only opens once solved, he gets his son to solve it for him.
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Part of the appeal of the series is the way the Lock Picking Lawyer is able to crack open even the more sophisticated locks within a short amount of time, and for acting as a [=PSA=] of sorts to potential customers on what locks are bad and what ones are resistant to picking, all within short, concise, and really informative videos.

You can find the wide selection of videos on [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm9K6rby98W8JigLoZOh6FQ their Youtube channel.]] For any budding lock enthusiast, you can support LPL by buying a lockpicks set or a specific picking instrument (including the famous disk-detainer pick that he and Bosnian Bill made) via [[https://covertinstruments.com/ Covert Instruments.]]

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Part of the appeal of the series is the way the Lock Picking Lawyer is able to crack open even the more sophisticated locks within a short amount of time, and for acting as a [=PSA=] PSA of sorts to potential customers on what locks are bad and what ones are resistant to picking, all within short, concise, and really informative videos.

You can find the wide selection of videos on [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm9K6rby98W8JigLoZOh6FQ their Youtube YouTube channel.]] For any budding lock enthusiast, you can support LPL by buying a lockpicks set or a specific picking instrument (including the famous disk-detainer pick that he and Bosnian Bill made) via [[https://covertinstruments.com/ Covert Instruments.]]



** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PR3eyNTLbk This OmniMed medical cabinet]] is poorly designed; the hinges have '''exposed''' basic Philips screws so you can just [[CuttingTheKnot take the door off]], the manual lock override isn't very resistant to lock picking, the keyholes on the back of the cabinet make it relatively easy to get off a wall, and the entire chassis of the cabinet is made of a very thin [=ABS=] plastic. The only praise he gave the product was for the keypad lock, which he had no issues with.

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** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PR3eyNTLbk This OmniMed medical cabinet]] is poorly designed; the hinges have '''exposed''' basic Philips screws so you can just [[CuttingTheKnot take the door off]], the manual lock override isn't very resistant to lock picking, the keyholes on the back of the cabinet make it relatively easy to get off a wall, and the entire chassis of the cabinet is made of a very thin [=ABS=] ABS plastic. The only praise he gave the product was for the keypad lock, which he had no issues with.



* ImprovisedLockpick: While LPL tends to stick with his usual toolset of lockpicks and non-destructive entry methods, they're not against using destructive tools like saws and hammers on occasion, and even guns have been used to force open the lock. During the Coronavirus pandemic, he performed a touch-free bypass with a magnet to disengage the locking mechanism. Toys and equivalents are also get used, such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8AP5XYs8jg video 1024 demonstrating the severity of a gun lock's flaw by using a [=LEGO=] astronaut figurine to reveal the danger.]]

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* ImprovisedLockpick: While LPL tends to stick with his usual toolset of lockpicks and non-destructive entry methods, they're not against using destructive tools like saws and hammers on occasion, and even guns have been used to force open the lock. During the Coronavirus pandemic, he performed a touch-free bypass with a magnet to disengage the locking mechanism. Toys and equivalents are also get used, such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8AP5XYs8jg video 1024 demonstrating the severity of a gun lock's flaw by using a [=LEGO=] LEGO astronaut figurine to reveal the danger.]]



-->'''[=TheNotSoCivilEngr=]''': This is what happens when you don’t give me dimensional requirements 🤷‍♂️
-->'''[=LockPickingLayer=]''': No, this is what happens when you give someone in their 20’s unsupervised access to a powerful laser. [[GracefulLoser In retrospect, I feel like I got off easy.]] [[ActuallyPrettyFunny 😂👍]]

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-->'''[=TheNotSoCivilEngr=]''': -->'''[=TheNotSoCivilEngr=]:''' This is what happens when you don’t don't give me dimensional requirements 🤷‍♂️
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'''[=LockPickingLayer=]:'''
No, this is what happens when you give someone in their 20’s 20's unsupervised access to a powerful laser. [[GracefulLoser In retrospect, I feel like I got off easy.]] [[ActuallyPrettyFunny 😂👍]]



-> ''[[TheStinger "In any case, that's all I have for you today. If you do have any questions or comments about this, please put them below. If you like this video, and you would like to see more like it, please subscribe. And as always, have a nice day. Thank you."]]''

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-> ''[[TheStinger ->''[[TheStinger "In any case, that's all I have for you today. If you do have any questions or comments about this, please put them below. If you like this video, and you would like to see more like it, please subscribe. And as always, have a nice day. Thank you."]]''
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* MasterOfUnlocking: Pretty much the whole concept of the series; watch him pick locks that are cheap, have design flaws, [[BringIt touted as being "unbreakable"]], [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs and all of the above.]] Very few locks have survived his picking charms.

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* MasterOfUnlocking: Pretty much the whole concept of the series; watch him pick locks that are cheap, have design flaws, [[BringIt touted as being "unbreakable"]], [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs and all of the above.]] Very few locks have survived his picking charms.charms; a good measure of the lock's quality is how ''long'' he takes to pick it.
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** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJrSWXFXvlE Video 1571]] sees him bypass the lock to a gun safe by popping out the drawer's handle, creating a hole that's just large enough to reach in and extract the handgun it's storing. He's so appalled by the design flaw that he insults both the safe and its designer.
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** In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94z0OJ_-4Lo video 1115]] he spends a bit of time showcasing the "comedy of errors" in the lock's contradictory design that allows it to be legal... and then he flips the safe over to show its ''other'' design flaw: its exposed hinge pins that can be pried out.


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* LogicBomb: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94z0OJ_-4Lo video 1115]] he goes over one TSA rule for a travel gun safe -- namely, "only the passenger retains the key or combination". This rule normally would be broken by a safe with a TSA lock, since every TSA personnel holds a master key. How the safe gets around this is in its lock design that would normally be an egregious design flaw -- using the key code allows the lock to turn ''clockwise'' and let the safe open normally, but the master key lets the lock turn ''anticlockwise'' and this doesn't let the safe open, thereby making the safe ''legal''.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: While he's an expert lockpicker, as said in [[https://youtu.be/tJI2e8V1tNI?si=6w_kT1xM5Dl1ISFD Video 1570]], he does not condone using it for criminal activities, and makes it clear when a viewer sent him a red lock[[note]]A lock designed to lock out people who haven't paid their rent in the due period[[/note]].
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* BringIt: Has actually been challenged by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W8N06QqK8A lock manufacturers,]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSuaUok-wTY locksmiths,]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoGCIuO2XkM the audience]] on occasion.

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* BringIt: Has actually been challenged by [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W8N06QqK8A lock manufacturers,]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSuaUok-wTY locksmiths,]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoGCIuO2XkM the audience]] on occasion. On several occasions however, the supplier was {{Tempting Fate}}.
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* AprilFoolsDay: Five times so far, all having the same base joke of being [[PungeonMaster innuendo-laden]] videos about lockpicking, [[DoubleEntendre phallic gestures]], and fornication:

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* AprilFoolsDay: Five times Every year since 2018 so far, all having the same base joke of being [[PungeonMaster innuendo-laden]] videos about lockpicking, [[DoubleEntendre phallic gestures]], and fornication:
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* CuttingTheKnot: If he can find a way to open a lock without even needing to pick it, he'll show it off. This is usually to demonstrate that whatever it is that the lock is supposed to be securing, it doesn't matter how strong the lock is if there's alternate ways for someone to get around it.

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* CuttingTheKnot: If he can find a way to open a lock without even needing to pick it, he'll show it off. This is usually to demonstrate that whatever it is that the lock is supposed to be securing, it doesn't matter how strong the lock is if there's alternate ways for someone to get around it.it - though these are usually also never picked normally, because locks made with such glaring outside weaknesses tend to have extremely simple locks that fail in two seconds anyway.
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* ShoddyKnockoffProduct: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOJc9OiRN5A Video 192]] demonstrates the difference between a high-quality Italian-made IFAM Huno 80 heavy-duty padlock and a Chinese-made "Golden Lotus". The Huno has fine machined finish, with a machined-brass lock body and core, with a machined-steel spinning coverplate and the pins retained by a strip of sheet-brass clipped onto the body. The Chinese lock has poor machining, burrs on the shackle-holes, and even rust inside one despite being newly purchased. The coverplate is a thin steel stamping, the body is roughly-cast iron, the core is an odd brass casting, and the pins were retained by little bits of wire hammered into the body.
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* TheFaceless: LPL takes great measures to hide his face whenever possible, and has on more than one occasion worn masks to conceal his identity when reviewing particularly shiny locks. PlayedForLaughs in [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=dwcC2BMFknI Video 1356]], when he foils a viewer's attempt to expose his face with a shiny chrome Master Lock by instead featuring a matte version of the same lock. He speaks about this in a [[https://youtu.be/IH0GXWQDk0Q?t=257 Keynote to avoid conspiracy theorists, and even enforced a "No Camera's" rule at the presentation]].

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* TheFaceless: LPL takes great measures to hide his face whenever possible, and has on more than one occasion worn masks to conceal his identity when reviewing particularly shiny locks. PlayedForLaughs in [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=dwcC2BMFknI Video 1356]], when he foils a viewer's attempt to expose his face with a shiny chrome Master Lock by instead featuring a matte version of the same lock. He speaks about this in a [[https://youtu.be/IH0GXWQDk0Q?t=257 Keynote to avoid conspiracy theorists, and even enforced a "No Camera's" Cameras" rule at the presentation]].
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* TheFaceless: LPL takes measures to hide his face whenever possible, and has on more than one occasion worn masks to conceal his identity when reviewing particularly shiny locks. PlayedForLaughs in [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=dwcC2BMFknI Video 1356]], when he foils a viewer's attempt to expose his face with a shiny chrome Master Lock by instead featuring a matte version of the same lock.

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* TheFaceless: LPL takes great measures to hide his face whenever possible, and has on more than one occasion worn masks to conceal his identity when reviewing particularly shiny locks. PlayedForLaughs in [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=dwcC2BMFknI Video 1356]], when he foils a viewer's attempt to expose his face with a shiny chrome Master Lock by instead featuring a matte version of the same lock. He speaks about this in a [[https://youtu.be/IH0GXWQDk0Q?t=257 Keynote to avoid conspiracy theorists, and even enforced a "No Camera's" rule at the presentation]].
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** 2023: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSUhZc7sqxI Video 1520]], is about "Getting Into a Woman's Kitty"...the kitty in question being a furry cat-themed locking diary cover.
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-->'''[=LockPickingLayer=]''': No, this is what happens when you give someone in their 20’s unsupervised access to a powerful laser. [[GracefulLoser In retrospect, I feel like I got off easy.]] 😂👍

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-->'''[=LockPickingLayer=]''': No, this is what happens when you give someone in their 20’s unsupervised access to a powerful laser. [[GracefulLoser In retrospect, I feel like I got off easy.]] 😂👍[[ActuallyPrettyFunny 😂👍]]

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-->'''[=TheNotSoCivilEngr=]''': This is what happens when you don’t give me dimensional requirements ''(shrug emoji)''

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-->'''[=TheNotSoCivilEngr=]''': This is what happens when you don’t give me dimensional requirements ''(shrug emoji)''🤷‍♂️
-->'''[=LockPickingLayer=]''': No, this is what happens when you give someone in their 20’s unsupervised access to a powerful laser. [[GracefulLoser In retrospect, I feel like I got off easy.]] 😂👍

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* CuttingTheKnot: If he can find a way to open a lock without even needing to pick it, he'll show it off.

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* CuttingTheKnot: If he can find a way to open a lock without even needing to pick it, he'll show it off. This is usually to demonstrate that whatever it is that the lock is supposed to be securing, it doesn't matter how strong the lock is if there's alternate ways for someone to get around it.
** Often he'll note when a lock's construction makes it vulnerable to drills or saws, or brute force like using a mallet to whack it with enough force to dislodge the shackle. With container-type items like bags, safes, cabinets, etc, he'll point out when they have exposed screws that let you take them apart with a screwdriver, or are made of such flimsy material that you could cut into them.

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