Bosnian Bill could pick it. Dude can pick some of the toughest locks out there. But yes it was a lever lock not a pin tumbler.

Its and old video, I know but I have to leave this comment. I'm from Stratford CT. It's not a town in a city. How is that possible? It's a town located next to the city of Bridgeport. Sheesh, I thought you were smarter than that.

Oö

*dubstep drop*

Ye Olde Roast

4th degree burns.

Apply cold water on burn

'now look here, you little shit'

Nah, he picks mostly low to mid security locks 😂 real high sec locks are rarely seen on his channel

Walls can be picked. With a pick.

Thermal lance beats everything.

The safest lock is not making yourself a target, and ensuring that the valuables are not known and well hidden... if nobody knows there is valuables, then they won't have a need to go looking for them... Then again, perhaps some theif just happened to break into your house, and break your living room lamp, exposing all your life's savings.

As the saying goes, "The best security is looking like you don't need it."

It's one of the (many) reasons the plot of the first Harry Potter makes no sense. The safest place for the Sorcerer's Stone is not behind some series of "locks" Voldemort was always going to be able to figure out how to get by. Better to have that elaborate set of "locks" ending in the mirror that supposedly is a way to get the stone (using it all as a trap more than anything), but then put the stone in the safest place for it on Earth (and easiest for Flamel to access when he needs more elixir)- Dumbledore's pocket.

and smithing apparently.

Sophisticated Dinosaur had he invested in enchantments, he would have been nigh-invincible

Not lock picking but dexterity and inteligence because he was a mechanical genius.

A.A. B. That’s fallout, not Skyrim.

don't forget Speechcraft (or Mercantile for older Elder Scrolls titles).

My grandfather, a retired sheriff, says "a lock is just to keep an honest man honest".

my grandfather, also a retired sheriff, says the same thing.

@@ShadowAraun as does mine.

@@Anastas1786 Locks are for honest people, guns are for the dishonest.

My grandfather is dead

Sera such a bad joke

in bad taste maybe but still very crude and funny well atleast to me XD

That ABSOLUTELY was intended. You don't have to pretend.

Quick, disable his hands. we can't let this man use somatic components!

zzz43452 English (York Rite) Freemasons, while embracing a disturbing degree of moral relativism, are ANGELS compared to the LONG schismed Italian Rite freaks. Be wary of all Masons, but be fair in telling the difference, too. The York, Scottish and Shriner rites have objectively done some good in the world in spite of their relativism. The Italians, however, are rotten to the core.

Hey, Michael here @vsauce

lol clever

T3rmination Nation lol I came here just to post that

Great minds think alike lol

Reminds me of Difference Engine by William Gibson - there's a class of folks talented at programming mechanical computers called "clackers"

That's EXACTLY what he was... When he wasn't just being a mechanical genius...

Derek Broestler So...he was sort of like a steampunk hacker/tinker/salesman?

I'm a generalist locksmith but I specialize in antiques, in that regard, Hobbs and Harry Houdini are pretty much two of my greatest influences, and I have books by both of them in my collection....Hobbs was the OG of locksmith / penetration testers / salesmen / showman / touch of troll... OK, consider this, It's 68 years after the American war for independence. The two countries are, on trading terms, but there's still some attitude on both sides... Both countries have undergone a huge industrial boom in the post war years, and one thing was CERTAIN... When it came to locks, no one made a better lock than the Brits... The Chubb and Bramah locks were considered by everyone in the world to be UNPICKABLE... (in fact the Bramah lock challenge had been in place since BEFORE the war... Here comes The Great Exhibition, which is like NOTHING we have today.... Imagine the FIRST "World's Fair" to the power of "The Stark Expo"... People, both makers and consumers from all over the world are there to either show or check out all manner of new "mechanical marvels" food, culture, everything, it wasn't just locks (but locks WERE a MUCH bigger deal back then than they are now)... Now, here comes Hobbs, an American, in THEIR HOUSE, saying his locks are better and the British locks weren't all that.... and everyone there is like "Cool story bro".... but then he commences to pwn the competition left and right. And he didn't just do it... he was all about creating enough of a spectacle and rubbing it in JUST enough, that EVERYONE was talking about it... It made the papers all over the world... People lost their minds, Bramah actually refused to pay for a minute claiming that Hobbs MUST have cheated somehow, and there was a lawsuit which Hobbs won. THEN between the money he earned selling the parautoptic lock AND all that challenge lock reward money, NOT to mention all the notoriety... he sets up his OWN company... In England... Just dropping it like the big D in the locker room. And he sold A LOT of them... Here we are, more than 160 years later, and about a third of my calls from antique stores looking to get keys made for antique British furniture, (especially writing desks, which had the best locks the person buying them new could afford)... Hobbs, Hart, and Co.... and that's JUST the stuff that made it to the US at some point...

I'm a generalist locksmith but I specialize in antiques, in that regard, Hobbs and Harry Houdini are pretty much two of my greatest influences, and I have books by both of them in my collection....Hobbs was the OG of locksmith / penetration testers / salesmen / showman / touch of troll... OK, consider this, It's 68 years after the American war for independence. The two countries are, on trading terms, but there's still some attitude on both sides... Both countries have undergone a huge industrial boom in the post war years, and one thing was CERTAIN... When it came to locks, no one made a better lock than the Brits... The Chubb and Bramah locks were considered by everyone in the world to be UNPICKABLE... (in fact the Bramah lock challenge had been in place since BEFORE the war... Here comes The Great Exhibition, which is like NOTHING we have today.... Imagine the FIRST "World's Fair" to the power of "The Stark Expo"... People, both makers and consumers from all over the world are there to either show or check out all manner of new "mechanical marvels" food, culture, everything, it wasn't just locks (but locks WERE a MUCH bigger deal back then than they are now)... Now, here comes Hobbs, an American, in THEIR HOUSE, saying his locks are better and the British locks weren't all that.... and everyone there is like "Cool story bro".... but then he commences to pwn the competition left and right. And he didn't just do it... he was all about creating enough of a spectacle and rubbing it in JUST enough, that EVERYONE was talking about it... It made the papers all over the world... People lost their minds, Bramah actually refused to pay for a minute claiming that Hobbs MUST have cheated somehow, and there was a lawsuit which Hobbs won. THEN between the money he earned selling the parautoptic lock AND all that challenge lock reward money, NOT to mention all the notoriety... he sets up his OWN company... In England... Just dropping it like the big D in the locker room. And he sold A LOT of them... Here we are, more than 160 years later, and about a third of my calls from antique stores looking to get keys made for antique British furniture, (especially writing desks, which had the best locks the person buying them new could afford)... Hobbs, Hart, and Co.... and that's JUST the stuff that made it to the US at some point...

I was going to make exactly that comment but I see you were here a year before I was and beat me to it.

Ferrets are QUICK! 😸😸😸

+1

That’s the pun

SwaggerOnHundred haha same 😂

Lol, I'm glad I'm not the only one

me too

Thanks!

Yeah, this was a really well done episode, it seems to capture the vibe of the channel perfectly....

Drillssafe "We're in!" Tear gas happens

diamond drills can cut anything, as they are using the hardest material known

Secret is using a hand saw. Hood ole trusty one for wood. Also for tear gas, use a frenchman. They have a genuine resistance to it nowadays.

@@itsianman in principle your right. The problem here is not that the diamond's don't cut through the ceramic. The problem is heat and resistance. The diamond's are attached to the drill bit by a layer of electroplated Nickel (Ni) and this layer can melt. Cooling is a problem even in stationery tools. That's why you can see that on hard steel the tools are set more slower then machine is capable of. So the ceramic plate means drill fast your nickel melts and the drill bit is for the dump or make it slow and you need more then an hour to drill trough. 🤔

@@sebastianschmidt566 unless you had a ridiculous drill and drill bit that you could pump coolant through lol

Hobbes first name was Thomas. You're probably confusing it for the classic "Calvin and Hobbes" comics.

Millitron oh haha I didn't realize my mistake, you're right

Step Seven, realize that any door you could open with a shotgun is one that could be simply kicked in.

Step 8: Get yelled at for wasting ammo and alerting the residents

That's right draw attention to you breaking into something by making a loud noise

Step 9: Gain a 5 star wanted level

Maxim Gun also lets everyone know your breaking into said place. Letting police know who to arrest

On the flip side: I can easily open my door if I lose my key.

Same here.

I pick locks at least 4 times a week at work. No matter how advanced or secure people think a lock is it will never be secure only slightly more difficult to get into.

Big Boss as with everything, if it can be opened legitimately, it can be opened illegitimately with barying degrees of dificulty

They would have lock shock.

Yeah, my masturbatory tastes are difficult to cater for also.

I’m curious how Mr. Hobbs would get along with a challenge lock.

A damn fine book! Loving my copy still. Even with the typos. ;)

nice to see you both here :)

Hey there. You just never know who you'll bump into where a love of locks is involved. :)

Wasn't expecting to see the main reason I want to go to DEFCON in the comments of a TIFO video! Will you be speaking this year? (Assuming there is one)

@@SupremeLordGeek hah, I guess we'll just have to see. Fingers crossed!

Our locks are unbreakable, and un-pickable ... i just wish he would be around today to pick the Bowley Lock

Well, he seems like a mechanical genius, which makes me think he wouldn't be stupid enough to put perk points into lockpicking.

Wesley Lance haha nice one!

he was also an master alchemist ,enchanter and he knew the restoration potion glitch .

It's Fallout Newvegas

Why would Macgyver need to do that when he had a rubber band and a piece of string?

Comparable quality in greater quantities and for a better price?

@@DraconicDuelist yes, but off-brand.

@@FroggyBB Yeah, but unless you're actively trying to support someone associated with a brand, or you have stock in the company, who cares about the brand names? IMO off-brand cereals usually have better flavor than the on brand counterparts. For example Fruity Dino-Bites > Fruity Pebbles.

did you just compare him to walmart brand? LOL

@@DraconicDuelist Comparable, if not worse quality

The Fiasco Garage or just buy a lockpicking gun for 20 dollars, insert the mechanism, pull the trigger once, and it's unlocked. It takes 3 seconds

Thanks!

Unless, of course, you competition is unable to pick your locks, then they have no way to prove otherwise...

Monthly lockpicking competitions on live tv?

Yes! Hobbs' lock certainly is less well known that the Chubb Detector. The Detector was still in use by the UK MOD until very recently.

But it is undoubtedly a great selling point

indeed

Emil Olivarez why yes, it is.

Nah but the great Whistler can say it how he wants because he is a God.

kontrowersja

That pronunciation of the word is controversial. Controverception.

only if you come from a small island with a small gene pool