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Penny door lock trick.
Examine the door you want to lock.
All of them are fun to try and kids will enjoy impressing their siblings and friends.
Start by pushing in the door near the top.
Repeat process below the handle.
Check your door as they may shove a quarter or penny into the gap like this.
If you live in a college dorm military barracks or similar structure they have a huge heavy metal door with deadbolt lock.
Most doors will need four or.
While ordinary pennies are very very difficult to rip if you get rid of the zinc core you are left with only the thin copper shell which is itself very easy to tear apart.
Thieves are becoming more brazen and are now using a very sneaky and easy to miss method of breaking into your car.
Though you try to use your key for central locking it will not work in light of the fact that the passenger car door is stuck.
Slide several pennies into the crack between the door and the jamb molding about 18 above the handle.
One is a magic trick one is a brain bender and two are neat science demonstrations.
Whether your car is sitting in your driveway or a lot when you are shopping the thief slides a nickel or penny in the door handle of the passenger side.
Wrap your chosen stack of.
For the final day of our craft closet boredom busters series here are four fun tricks to do with a penny and just a few other household supplies.
The point of this prank is to lock someone in a room usually causing significant confusion as to what is wrong with the door and or handle.
Jamming a penny in a car door handle prevents automatic locks from working and allows thieves to easily steal your possessions according to online warnings.
How to penny lock a door step 1.
But before you try and tear a plain old penny in half you should probably watch this video first or you may hurt your fingers.
If the door frame has a lip that extends over the door as many office.
By binding bundles of pennies together with some duct tape and sticking them in the door frame of a locked door you can prevent the door from unlocking and opening altogether trapping your victim inside.
We haven t been able to find any credible reports of thieves using a penny in a door handle to break into cars and warnings about that happening can easily be picked apart.
No we re not lying.
