If you’re like every other human being on this Earth, you’ve likely misplaced your house key once or twice.Maybe you left them at a friends house one night and you don’t feel comfortable leaving a spare under the mat. Then what? Well, learning how to pick a lock could help you through those hard times.
Why, when I have a key do I bother to pick? Why, when I have a pick gun do I bother to bump, then rake, then impression, locks? The answer is zen-like really, opening the lock is not my aim, I am lost in the not-opening of the lock, and somewhere within that endless paradigm I will find myself. My engagement is with the poetics of a puzzle - of a logical approach of a mechanics against an established means. I'm pushing pins, I'm holding an Nth mm of a shearline to work my own way around a different design.
It's like dancing up the stairs. There's an easier way to get to the top, but it won't be remembered, the stairs will dictate me beyond myself, outside myself - hardly self at all. By dancing up the stairs I reclaim my movement, I make a place for myself in my own space rather than be dictated by the usual flow of forms. Lock pickers, in their dusty jeans and faded T-shirts step-out in style, minimal, delicate but brash, to the music of slipped pins and tired metals.
Knowing how to pick a lock may even help you save a life one day. ITS Tactical has highlighted a few instances in which someone picked their way into an older parent’s home because they weren’t answering the phone, only to find their parent collapsed on the floor. Could they have kicked the door down or broken a window? Sure. But picking a lock just takes a few seconds and doesn’t leave any damage. So why wouldn’t you do that if you could?
It’s cool and fun skill! There’s simply a “cool” factor of knowing how to pick a lock. Of all the every man wishes he had, it’s one of the most attainable. The idea that I can surreptitiously enter most doors without a key makes me feel all-powerful, like some sort of super ninja-spy.
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