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Urgent anyone know how to pick a lock or are psychic

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Scottishdreams1991 · 06/05/2023 18:39

Ds birthday tomorrow all his presents are inside a cupboard locked. We can't find the key 😪 Anyone know how to pick a lock or know where the key is ? Help

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SalmonEile · 06/05/2023 18:42

Is it on top of or under the cupboard
when did you hide the presents

tanstaafl · 06/05/2023 18:43

In a high place to stop DS finding it?

LizzieLoO37 · 06/05/2023 18:43

Credit cards and hair pins always seem to work in the movies?

Beginningless · 06/05/2023 18:44

Pay a locksmith?

Lockheart · 06/05/2023 18:45

If it's just a cupboard door a crowbar or a hammer should sort you out.

TheInterceptor · 06/05/2023 18:47

You put it on your main keyring so you wouldn't lose it Smile

Imperialleathers · 06/05/2023 18:48

How old is DS ? Possible he may have found it and slid it down the side of the radiator??? I've lost my keys before and made myself mad looking until I asked my 4 year old DD at the time. They were in her toy box.

Scottishdreams1991 · 06/05/2023 18:49

Picture of cupboard lock and bedroom lock. Same type. All doors in the house have a lock for some reason 🤔

Urgent anyone know how to pick a lock or are psychic
Urgent anyone know how to pick a lock or are psychic
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MissingMoominMamma · 06/05/2023 18:50

It’s either in the fruit bowl, or that small dish of crap by your bed.

Pansypotter123 · 06/05/2023 18:52

Don't the doors all share the same keys? Like windows? I'm sure you've already discounted this though 🤗

Nolongera · 06/05/2023 18:52

Have a look on YouTube but picking most locks is way harder than they make it look in films.

Can you take the hinges off?

Theunamedcat · 06/05/2023 18:53

Where do you usually keep the keys?

TaraRhu · 06/05/2023 18:54

There's lots of videos on you tube about picking locks.

Scottishdreams1991 · 06/05/2023 18:55

All the doors have a different key. We normally keep the key in the kitchen drawer. I last used it last week to put his presents in.

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NeatCompactSleeper · 06/05/2023 18:56

Oooh I helped my friend get into her old bedsit with the same sort of door/lock.

I slid a credit card down the side a few time while turning the handle and jigging the door back and forth.

Couldn't believe it worked!

rileynexttime · 06/05/2023 18:56

on top of a high surface ?

Cherryana · 06/05/2023 18:59

I found a lost key wedged down the back of the radiator. It had got stuck so would never have dropped through to the floor. Thought that was odd.

Olivia199 · 06/05/2023 19:00

Jeans pocket? It's where I normally keep things like this!

WaitingForSunnyDays · 06/05/2023 19:04

Those types of locks normally have a limited number of different keys. Any chance the neighbours have kept their keys and you could try all of theirs?

Doje · 06/05/2023 19:04

I put (small) important things in the coins bit in my purse. Is it in there?

Jobhuntings · 06/05/2023 19:04

Key is in the top drawer.

underneaththeash · 06/05/2023 19:06

It's in your bedside cabinet

Boxofsockss · 06/05/2023 19:07

jean pockets.

Theredcow · 06/05/2023 19:07

It has got pushed to the back of the kitchen drawer then fallen down the back. Check the other drawers then take the drawers out and look underneath.

Riapia · 06/05/2023 19:17

Your DS has forgotten to put the key back where he found it when searching for his present.
Ask him where he put it.
😉😁😁

PS I speak from experience. 😇