Penny Door Lock Trick

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.

Penny door lock trick.

All of them are fun to try and kids will enjoy impressing their siblings and friends. Most doors will need four or. Wrap your chosen stack of. There have been rumors going around facebook and elsewhere that thieves have been wedging coins like a quarter or a penny into car door handles to get inside the vehicle.

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. How to penny lock a door step 1. 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. 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.

Start by pushing in the door near the top. They follow you to wherever you are going. 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. The rumors claim that it.

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. One is a magic trick one is a brain bender and two are neat science demonstrations. If you live in a college dorm military barracks or similar structure they have a huge heavy metal door with deadbolt lock. 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.

Examine the door you want to lock. 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. Repeat process below the handle. Thieves are becoming more brazen and are now using a very sneaky and easy to miss method of breaking into your car.

No we re not lying. 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.