Urgent: Breaking into one's own uncooperative 5kq?

[Brett Dikeman]

At 11:20 PM -0500 3/26/04, ian at bluemoon.hplx.net wrote:

>We have a slim jim and numerous coathangers, and a screwdriver .. bailing
>twine, duct tape, WD-40, etc.. but no clue as to how to get the thing
>open.  If any of you have had similar problems I'd be most obliged to
>hear a solution. :)

You need the services of a professional locksmith; if a slimjim 
doesn't work and the cylinders are all spinning, you're probably 
looking at a lot of work to get in, since drilling out the cylinders 
does nothing if the problem is with the linkage(s) to the door 
mechanism from the lock cylinder. Depending upon how the linkages are 
broken, getting into the car to trigger the pump under the back seat 
may get you something.

I would not go bragging about having a slimjim.  I am not a lawyer, 
but in many states I believe possession of lock picking tools is 
illegal by itself unless you are a licensed locksmith, and in a good 
number more it will bump a misdemeanor to a felony if you're arrested 
doing something you shouldn't be.  This advice came to me straight 
from a former coworker who was a licensed locksmith, who let me 
borrow one of his pick sets and a bunch of practice locks(I thought 
it would be fun to try to pick up- I was horrible at it).

Brett
-- 
"They that give up essential liberty to obtain temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Ben Franklin
http://www.users.cloud9.net/~brett/