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| DaveH:
The tennis ball trick we did as kids. Drill a hole in it fill it with gunpowder from "penny bangers" or 3d "little Demons" if you were rich. When it was nearly full put one of the fuses in the hole, light it and run. Didn't go off with such a big bang but there was a huge cloud of smoke. :Doh: :Doh: :Doh: :beer: DaveH |
| mattinker:
--- Quote from: sparky961 on February 13, 2012, 11:30:52 PM ---So, I consider myself to be pretty smart. However, I just realized that I've spent wasted over an hour watching YouTube videos and sifting through thread after thread trying to find out if this whole "open a car door with a tennis ball" thing is actually true or not. There's a MythBusters clip that apparently quashes the rumor, but then I see there's yet another video saying that MythBusters is full of crap! The forums were full of people talking about why it would and wouldn't work, many of the points quite valid. But the most valid post I saw was someone asking why these guys didn't just go out and try it! Maybe this was started out by a tennis ball manufacturing company who's sales numbers were a bit low?? IF I actually had a tennis ball laying around, I WOULD try this.... but alas, I don't. Please, can anyone point me to some slightly more scientific test of this? Thanks! Oh, and sorry for the time you're going to waste on YouTube watching the same videos..... ;) -Sparky --- End quote --- I had to try the tennis ball trick one a Mercedes 190D with a flat battery so not even the keys will open the doors. It may work on other cars, but not on a Mercedes. We did have acess to the boot (trunk) we quite simply took air line that goes to the boot lock off and using a high pressure bicycle pump were able to blast air into the system. Pressurising the system like this opens all the doors! I took the battery home and charged it at no cost, we were up and running! As we needed the key to open the boot, I'm not telling anybody how to break into cars! Regards, Matthew |
| hopefuldave:
When I was working for BT, we had a spate of Transit vans (the first of the "aerodynamic" looking ones) being cleared out overnight - tools, spares, cable, phones and even the gumboots. There was Union Intervention as management were blaming the drivers - all the empty vans were found to be unlocked with no sign of tampering - then the Union rep' demonstrated just *where* to slap the back door of a locked transit to unlock it... The Motor Transport guys were quids in, lots of overtime fitting a 1/4" steel plate behind the panel! Dave H. (the other one) |
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