(014) Two Thumbs Gone: American Lock Series 10 -- English Patient Style
Channel: Alex Blate
Date: 2012-11-14

I wanted to make a picking video demonstrating my mad skills SPPing the crap out of locks while under stress. Alas, I live in California, so the heaviest gloves I have are the latex gloves I use for... well... banana picking... no mittens, no walk-in freezers, and I'm fresh out of Anal-Eze. 

And then I remembered that guy in the movie The English Patient -- the one who pissed off the Nazis enough that they cut off his thumbs; you should have seen how he shot up morphine... anyhow, I though to myself, "Self! What if we pick a lock without opposable thumbs? That would be like super-human and sub-human simultaneously. 

Sadly, I'm all out of duct tape. But I did find a roll of packing tape. So I gave it a try. The aftermath is recorded on video for posterity. 

NB: no actual thumbs were injured or amputated in the filming of this video.