In high school they would charge us $5/month for a parking pass (back in the late 1970's that was quite the hit to a high school student). Most students laughed it off until the school district had the village police department come out and issue parking tickets. A parent did some research and found out that the land that the parking lot was located on was not owned by the school district so they had no authority to be issuing paid for parking passes, or to give authority to the police to issue tickets. The farmer who did own the land that the parking lot was on ended up getting involved. He sued the school district for all of the parking pass money and issued permits to the students for free. If school administrators wanted to park there, they had to get a parking pass that they paid for. There was a row that was meant to be reserved for teachers, when they didn't pay he parked agricultural equipment behind their vehicles so they were effectively trapped in their parking spots.
Caught a guy booting my car - grabbed sawzall out of the back. He laughed and said it would never cut through - I laughed and told him it was for his feet.
Actually that little trap door thingy looked pretty flimsy. I bet a really big screwdriver or small pry bar would defeat it. And the of course the screwdriver.
Tubular locks can be opened with a pen or marker that's the right circumference. There's a defcon video about it....also, it's fairly easy to get access to many tubular lock keys.
I think I'm going to buy a car boot from Amazon. Then I will park my car with impunity in all the places I'm not allowed to, boot up my own car, leave something that looks like a citation in a long envelope tucked into the windshield, and go run my errands. When done, I remove my boot and off I go. Every cop or scammer will think I've already been snagged by one of them and leave my car alone. Thanks for this idea!
You're assuming your boot and fake parking tickets will be identical to the ones they use. You're also assuming they won't just put a second boot and ticket on your vehicle. I wouldn't mess around with that. Just buy a set of boot keys.
My dad had a friend in college that did something like this. He got a parking ticket, and instead of paying it he just kept it and put it on his windshield every time he parked anywhere. It apparently took a long time to get caught too.
My buddy needed to step out of the bar to take a phone call, but was worried that someone would take his beer, which he could not take out with him. So he wrote a little note saying "I spit in this" and left it with the beer to deter any would be beverage thieves. When he returned from his call he found someone had written on the bottom of his note: "So did I"
Somebody deflated my tire once because they didn't like me parking in front of their house. When I got to the car they were standing up in their living room to see what I would do. Since I didn't have a way to pump it up and no time to get the tire off and get it fixed (they broke the valve) I just left it there. When I came back a few days later to get it sorted they came out of their house to ask why I didn't take the car away sooner.. Needless to say I told them that unfortunately didn't have time to get it fixed and was just there to get something out of the car and would deal with it later.
If I was a super rich evil asshole I'd just buy loads of old bangers, $1000 cars, and park them all over someone's carpark who had aggrieved me in some minor way. Wait for them to clear them all away, do it again. For extra points put something valuable looking but worthless in each footwell (empty laptop bag, budget briefcase) and soak the car in foul odours. They would open them up every time in hope that there were valuables. They'd have no choice but to pay to scrap the cars themselves. Keep putting more cars there until their business implodes.
@Phil M nope , it’s legal in every state I have lived in. There are exceptions for instance if you are carrying them to commit a crime It’s illegal. Lol.
A simple but effective alternative to the squigglybonk is a plastic tube from a BIC pen - Nearly everyone has one in their car somewhere, and as far as I know, a BIC pen is legal in every state.
Lol my city had a guy in a cheap superhero suit who went around with an angle grinder cutting these up into pieces but thankfully booting has been totally outlawed so he's retired I assume
They've got new trick I just found out about today tow truck drivers got caught using jammers to disable everyone's key fobs in a car park then charged people to tow away their "broken cars" apparently nearly 400 people couldn't use their fobs and without them the immobilizers (they're mandatory here) couldn't recognise the fobs meaning even if you used your key your car wouldn't start they're getting pretty clever on a side note when I was younger and airbags first came on the scene had a friend who's uncle's ran a tow company and they'd pay us 50-100 a car to go around hitting the airbag sensors with a hammer making them impossible to drive so they'd get the tow I know it was scummy thing to do but I was young and stupid/selfish I genuinely feel bad for fucking up people's cars like that just for money to get high
*is in front of president* LPL: another inexcusable design flaw *LPL in prison* "so I'm in prison for breaking into the White House and I thought this would be a good opportunity to..."
*Is in front of prison cell door* LPL: another inexcusable design flaw "LPL in federalprison* so I'm in federalprison for breaking out of the prison and I thought this would be a good opportunity to..."
*Is standing outside of prison* LPL: And there we go. I'd like to see a higher security option though LPL in front of heaven's gates, "So God said I couldn't get into heaven because if all the places I've broken out of so I though this would be a good opportunity to..."
LPL inside heaven: Another inexcusable design flaw LPL inside a cage in hell: "So God tossed me in hell for breaking in heaven and Satan locked me up in a maximum security torture cell, and I thought this would be a great opportunity to..."
I have always laughed at the idea of a boot… “hey. You’re occupying a space you aren’t paying for… therefore, we are going to boot your car so you can’t leave the spot that we need you to leave.”
*can't leave until you pay us the fine plus extra now since we booted you Meaning they get more money. It's a big win for the company. Cause most the time you can't live without ur car.
@@whitewolf30f Only if you get caught. I'd take it home, make an impression of the 2 lock holes,and devise a tool to fit each of them. Then I'd dump the boot & keep the tools in my car. Hidden but easily accessed.
I was at Johns Hopkins when Baltimore PD started using The Boot. They learned really quickly not to use it near the Homewood campus, because the engineering students reaction was “Cool. Let’s take this new toy and see how it works!”. Didn’t even have to be on their car; they’d take any Boot they saw.
The best thing, too, is that it’s illegal in many places. If you’re caught screwing around with it, you can be like ‘this is criminal mischief and, yeah, any attempt to intervene will have me call the police ON YOU.’
“This is the Lockpicking Lawer, and today I came across Pandora’s box, and I thought this good opportunity to show you what unimaginable horrors are behind this inexcusable lock.”
@@maliceharding4668 That myth never made any sense to me. Like why would you let out all the bad stuff, but then keep hope inside where it can't get out?
I was involved in one of those boot scam's. Called the supposed company, while the supposed representee and my wife were debating the issue on the other side of the car. Using a couple of tool's in my multitool I've carried for year's. Removed the boot, informed my wife to get in the car, and the three of us drove off. Me, my wife and the boot. That little scam cost them the price of one boot.
You don't need an apostrophe when making a word plural. scams. years. It's for possession of something, Bob's car or to replace letters left out in a contraction. Do not = Don't. Carry on.
@@d-rot For me it was the two sentences that should be one: "Using a couple of tools in my multitool I've carried for years, I removed...". He did use an Oxford comma, so I'm happy with that.
@@Darapsa Agree. And it's an awkward phrase to say "a couple of tools in my multitool." Just say "using my multitool" and delete "I've carried for years." Doesn't matter if it is new to you or decades old. You're taking off a boot, we know you're a boy scout, always prepared.
Week later: "Criminals are stealing scammer's boot by parking bait car, waiting for it to get locked, picking boot and driving away with it. According to anonymous sources, scammers are losing thousands of dollars each day."
@@slava_trushkin Week after that.... "everyone involved in all of the previous stories has been shot, because it's Chicago. In fact, I've just now been shot while doing this news report. I'm gonna shoot back and then head to the hospital, back to you Bob"
@camjamsdad Yeah..... the majority of shootings that occur in Chicago are largely restricted to two very impoverished neighborhoods, usually with guns purchased in Wisconsin or Indiana. And people have been crying "their coming for our guns, their coming for our guns" for nearly 40 years now...... history speaks volumes for those willing to listen. Its alarmism at its finest, since only a vocal minority is truly trying to take everyone's guns. What most people want, is just some damn common sense when it comes to the sales ans usage of guns. Gun training, licensing, regular safety training. Make sure the people buying the guns know how to use them, rather than just trying to imitate the movie "Commando" or something
There's a great video of an English guy who removed a clamp from his car and locked it to his fence, then told the bailiffs that getting it back would cost £2000, but he'll do them a deal and reduce it to £395 if they pay today (the prices the bailiffs had given him in the first place). They phoned the police, who told them that because the clamp hadn't been damaged there was nothing they could do about it, and cutting the guy's padlocks or fence would be criminal damage lol
Told to park in a specific location in support of the Lilac Festival in Spokane WA, I returned to find a 55-gallon barrel cabled to the rear of my pickup truck. Flipped it into the bed and it made a nice BBQ for our barracks party's. :)
Spokane is SUPER shady with parking nonsense, The lots will purposely put misleading signage or no signage all then try to hold your car for ransom. FUCK SPOKANE!
@@N8crafter fair point, but I'm assuming that in a given city most companies will in fact be using the same make and model. If not, yeah it might be better to carry a boot around and always boot and unboot yourself wherever you go. But at that point I think it's less trouble to just park correctly so I don't have to worry about being booted. Not a viable shortcut to me.
Because of all the complaints here in NZ, the Government set a limit of $100 fine ONLY and if they try and charge you more, the Police will come down and arrest them! The practice of Wheel Clamping is almost non existent now!
Portable angle grinder, grind off the head of that pin holding the clamping circle and hammer out the pin. Won't be able to resell it on ebay though unless you put in a new pin and mushroom over the head.
Lol that's a funny mental picture (also I have never made a comment like this before because I think they're kinda stupid, but I was the 666th like so I guess I'm dead now) *Edited 2 months later* Ew. I'm annoyed I even took the time to say that. Blegh. But not really.
You have to be careful. Some states consider having lock picking tools as burglary tools and you get a felony. California is one of them as one point might still be.
@@kevinsnyder333 buy?? Lol hes a professional with hundreds or thousands of pick videos, even developed his own tools, maybe research what you're talking about before commenting lol
When I was in college these things were just coming out. My school was in a city where the city used to see booting students cars as a big revenue source. I kept a portable acetylene torch in my trunk and had to cut a bunch of them off. I had a piece of fire board to stick between the frame and the tire and it took less than a minute to cut through the lower arm. It was mild steel so the cutting head sliced through it real quick. I couldn't have been the only kid destroying them because after a couple of years they stopped using them. My guess is they ran out of them.
Oh, now they put your car into the database and since the boots cost them some money if you break it they might go after you. it can even be said to be vandalism or a crime in some twisted places.
@@markd.9538 Yes, they can. They put the boot on your car, they have it written down that there is a boot on your car, and if the boot is removed by anyone but them, it’s vandalism. The only thing is that they can’t prove that it was you specifically, even if it can be reasonably assumed it was you.
Yeah it's so hard to acquire those tubular lock picks... but I happen to know a guy, that works at the store where they sell those, and you can actually buy them just like any other item on the planet... the one thing they don't sell/can't buy anywhere is common sense... so can't help you there.
My Dad took one of these clamps from his car years ago and threw it into the river. He was summonsed to court. His solicitor asked the clamping dickheads ‘did you see my client remove the clamp? If so, where is it’ they said they couldn’t but it was obviously him. The case got thrown out and clampers had to pay my Dads court costs and loss of earnings. I was so proud of him that day...!
Now that is great. Your dad and his solicitor would have been doing the victorious man dance after that! I just wonder if the booter's side asked him under oath if he removed the boot.
raksh9 He would have lied if they did. He was an inveterate liar. He lied in front of my Mother, a Catholic Priest, His Family and about 200 friends to be faithful until death etc... Yeah, right. Mostly I hated this character flaw, until this day and a few other times his character flaws came in handy for me...
raksh9 well if they didn’t see him remove it, and they clearly didn’t have any evidence otherwise they wouldn’t have to ask that question then his lie would have worked perfectly fine lol. That’s not how the law works.
This sort of highway robbery happened to one of my cousins traveling out of state to visit family for the holidays several years back near Cleveland Ohio, if memory serves me correctly. The supposed company who installed the boot on his dodge ram pickup, wanted $1500 to remove the boot, little did they know, he had just brought a dwalt cordless grinder and some grinding wheels as well as some cut off wheels, as well as other stuff on Black Friday. Not only did he cut through that boot in less than a minute, but also photographed the surrounding area, noting that there was no signs indicating no parking zones, and believed he was targeted because he had out of state tags. Fast forward a week or so later, he gets a letter in the mail threatening legal action for the cost of the boot and so on, took him to court, and the person who installed the boot didn't show up, so the judge had no choice but to dismiss the suit. And no, my cousin was never targeted again, that I'm aware. 😊
@@Registered_Democrat could you imagine what would have happened had they had the balls to enter that courtroom like they could win, that would have been hilarious to see.
It's been 3 years and so far I have 2 of these things in my shed, apparently the guys who do this were so stupid they forgot they booted my fathers car so they put another one and didn't realise the other one had been removed, after the 2nd one I think they knew they were only giving someone 😎👍 free scrap metal at that point.
True story, in 1982 I worked for the City of Columbia MO. When the tow driver showed up to pick up a booted car it was gone. Shelly the meter maid went to verify where she booted it and indeed it was gone. Police looked up the address based on the license number on the ticket and went there. Car was sitting in the driveway. Owner said he knew nothing about the boot, just went out to his car and drove away. They learned later that he was a locksmith but had no evidence he wasn't telling the truth.
@@MicrowaveBakedPotato I did not, the police did. I was in charge of traffic signals and my office was in the old train station and so was the meter maids is why I know about this.
Columbia MO must have been a pretty crime free town in 1982 if the police have time to drive to a guys house and question him about the major crime of.... boot removal. And then have enough spare time to also follow up and find out he's a locksmith! It must have been the crime of the century, likely rivaling Alice's restaurant massacree of 1965. Did the officer make any 8x10 color glossy photographs, with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one?
I love reading all the stories of people breaking, cutting, stealing all these things all over the place. Glad to see people are still down for some good old fashioned civil disobedience
My service truck is constantly get getting booted for parking in residential areas. Never understand why someone would boot a truck stocked full of power tools.
I had my car booted in an apartment complex parking lot. I actually was able to get the tire off, put the spare on, drove home and took a sawzaw to it. They lost out on a, at the time, $300 boot. This was 20 years ago.
@@golden.lights.twinkle2329 it's very possible. This wasn't a boot like the city uses, more like a clamp, in which the lugs are obstructed but not completely blocked like in this video. Bulldog wheel clamp and boot was the manufacturer if I remember correctly.
@@percyhawkins716 they never came for me. An apartment complex has no legal right to boot a vehicle. They're not a law enforcement agency, so they can't do anything about it. They can have it towed, but they can't boot it. Nothing ever happened besides them losing a boot (it was more like a clamp) and me having a funny story 20 years later.
Years ago, I had a boot placed on my work truck, which, among many other tools, had an oxygen/acetylene torch and 50' hoses. It was off nearly as fast as shown in this video. I wouldn't put a boot on a truck was showing a visible cutting torch.
For me the preferred method would have been a hammer with the screw driver to bend the cheap little door open .....not much more difficult and a common tool !
Honestly that door is really thin. I think a hammer and some form of spike could pierce it or even some drills. If you do not have a hammer a pointy rock could do some damage as well.
The first ones were invented in the 20’s as anti-theft devices because stealing cars was very easy back then. It wasn’t until the 40’s that Denver, Colorado had one specially designed for immobilizing other people’s cars for outstanding traffic tickets.
A friend of mine got booted in apartment parking garage. After 5 minutes of debate, he paid using either as credit card or debit card. Immediately after that, he contacted the card company and canceled payment.
I had a boot on my car once (sketchy tow company). That day my angle grinder got to eat 🤣 🤣 🤣. I made sure to clean up all the evidence. A couple days later I was contacted by the tow company and asked "um sir, did we accidentally boot your vehicle by mistake recently?" to which I replied "No, you must have the wrong person...."
Yeah, was gonna say, that'd last maybe a hot thirty seconds against the Flexvolt grinder with the 6" cutting wheel I've got in the tool box. And that assumes I take my time cutting it square in half, instead of just slicing off one side and twisting the rest away. lol
When I was in the navy, I was out with a few friends when we came back to my buddies car, and saw a boot on it. It wasnt the full boot that covered the lugnuts. We couldnt figure out why he was booted. We just took the tire off, and put on the spare tire and drove away. We used a sawzall to cut the boot off, and never heard anything about it. 😝
Correct me if I'm wrong. The boot gets put on the wheel. ( by the clamper ). The car driver gets prosecuted if/for tampering with the boot . But an bystander ( LPL ) could remove the boot. " i don't know him ..... "
Car booting/clamping never took off in France. Reason being that when they started using them everybody got riled up about it to the extent that people started to carry superglue. Whenever they saw a clamped car they'd squirt some into the lock. As a result when the car's owner later paid the fine the scammers could not release the car without destroying the clamp/boot. They soon stopped clamping cars.
I would agree if they knew it was superglue but they didn't. All they knew was that when came to releasing the clamp they couldn't get the key in and a really pissed off car owner watching them.
Ah I remember when this was a thing, my budys started up a 5 dollar removal service and we would remove these things. We would call the local police and ask If they booted [car: license plate] if no we would remove it. The 5 bucks was Just to cover gas
There was a Guy in Budapest who dressed up in super hero and cutted of the boot from the car in the city, someone always helped to plug in the cutter throw a window.
If you do that, your best bet would be to report the scammer's illegitimate car boot to the police, and then tell them when/where the scammer will be going to try to get his boot back.
I used a Battery Powered Recip Saw against a fake boot several years ago. Felt very satisfied leaving it on the sidewalk where I was parked. Called to cops and told them where to find it, and they caught the Boot scammer right away. That was a great day. Just carry a Battery Powered Recip Saw, and you will be out of the boot in 3 minutes.
I was on a construction site and "they" made the mistake of putting Boots onto "welding rigs". In less than a minute they were cut loose with grinders.
Sure. The company would be on the hook to pay for them because the police know which vehicles they were put on and someone arrested for destroying police property.
We had a big generator and very large angle grinders on the back of the truck. We stood there looking up and down many times until the curiosity why it was put on in the first place eventually won. But then, days later, we still wanted to grind one of those things. Drove around a bit but couldn't find any. You did the right thing :)
I still prefer super-gluing the lock thoroughly up, then calling them out to remove it, and watching them cut their own boot for the release fee, knowing they've lost money on it because a good lock is worth more than the fee. For extra points, you can then press charges for damages to the alloy when they cut the lock off :D
@@Crimsen13 they usually mark the alloy in the process of cutting right through. I just like to ensure that despite them taking cash from me, they'll be spending it on a new lock. 😂
These boots are dirt cheap, 30 to 60 bucks depending on where you buy them. The fun part is they try to sue for 300 dollars and upward if you damage or steal them
No one seems to mention that these can also be used as a security device to prevent your vehicle from being stolen by others. Sure you can't completely prevent stuff inside the car from being stolen but you'd still have the most important part.
LPL's Mom: You need to stop spending all day inside picking locks. Go outside and get some fresh air. LPL: Let's head outside, lock this on my car, and get to work
@Bob Bobbertson Typically you'd have your car towed if it was by a legitimate entity. If law enforcement doesnt want you parked somewhere, they're not gonna boot you and prevent you from moving, they're gonna move you rather you like it or not lmao. Essentially, it'd make no sense for lawful entities to boot you, just scammers. I hope this helps. Usually I wouldnt try to explain things like this but you're a fellow weeb so I figured id be nice ;) lol
@@MTFOphantom To be honest, everywhere I have been in the world, there are signs saying they will tow. I have never seen one yet that says they will boot a car.
PhantomGunshipOfficial In Chicago the city will boot you if you have 3 or more unpaid tickets, there is talk about ending this practice, but I highly doubt that will happen!
I used a cutting torch after driving 30 miles to go get the torch set. When we came back there was 2 boots on the car, one front and one rear, didnt stop Mr Torch. So scammer lost 2 of his boots too. I think we estimated that he lost 300 dollars that night. There was a waffle House across the street and the bright light of the cutting torch didnt bother anyone.
Hey just so anyone knows. The door that required the lock pick only requires a pen. You can remove the innards of a Bic ball point pen and use the outer layer as a "skeleton" key for its circular key hole. Its comically easy to remove these things.
I don't think it's quite as easy as you're making out. First off, the pen trick only works with tubular locks of the right diameter, no? The one in this video appears to be significantly wider than a pen, based on the tubular lock pick. Also, after I learned about this years ago, I tried it on one of my bike chain locks, and although I got it to work once, it took a _lot_ of monkeying, and I was unable to get it to work a second time (don't remember if I tried replacing the pen, but it didn't sustain any significant damage from the picking).
I had somebody do that to me one time. Little did they know that I had a angle grinder with some cut off wheels. I cut that boot right off. Then I called the number and told the guy but I just cut the boot right off. He got pissed and said he was going to sue me I so I played into it a little bit and told him I would meet him to give him the money if he would not sue me. So he agreed I notified the police department in that town well long story short he did not get his money and he got a free ride all the way down to the city motel. Apparently this dude have been running this racket for quite some time and the police have been trying to locate him. They also search his car and found about a dozen other car boots in his trunk. I don’t think he got none of them back he probably had to start over again from scratch.
Why does the _mere existence_ of these things absolutely _enrage_ me?!? I’ve never been any place where boots are used, much less have had one used on my car, and yet seeing these things just pisses me off!!
@@Loosehead where I am, we have tickets and towing, and they seem to get the job done just fine. Boots are wholly counterproductive. Now the car that shouldn’t be there is _stuck_ there, and there’s no guarantee that the offender will have the means to pay up on the spot. At least with towing, the car has been moved out of the way. At least with a ticket and a court date, the offender has a chance to come up with the money and possibly defend their actions (medical emergency, lack of markings/signage, etc.).
Would be a cool idea for a show, sort of like Bear Grills, where he is dumped in the middle of nowhere, lock picking lawyer get dumped in a random prison (anywhere in the world) and has to pick a lot of locks to get out.
Looks like you could just pry that little door open with the same screwdriver. Pretty chintzy cabinet door lock there. Also, as always, an angle grinder would work fast and effortlessly.
WAY back when these first came out the City of Portland (Maine) made the mistake of booting a guy's work truck. A few days later they received a box with the boot in it cut up into lots of little pieces . Made the newspapers!
Actually you can. Note how flimsy that lock is, it's essentially same as you can see ie. closets etc. Just use screwdriver to turn that lock body open :)
There was a guy in the UK or somewhere that did that. He then locked the boot to his front gate and told the county he would unlock it for them for a few hundred bucks.
@@LobbyDaLobsterthat was "alleged" He admitted no knowledge of how it came to be on his gate. Only that he was concerned about it doing property damage and had himself put a lock on it.
I don't know if anyone else has said this, but my suggestion is: If someone boots your car, you should retreat to a safe place and call the police. It would be unwise to kneel down and put all of your attention onto this object when someone is very clearly watching you. It's far too easy to put a cheap boot onto someone's vehicle simply as a form of distraction. You are at an extreme disadvantage when fiddling with it and are vulnerable to a number of violent crimes. Stay safe folks.
What sort of violent crimes are we talking? Rear end ambush? I have reason to believe the scammer probably isn't going to be the victims stepbrother...
But that would RUIN the boot and they couldn't use it again! YEP, that is a GOOD idea, a very GOOD IDEA! Be sure to put it in a nearby trash container because there's a fine for littering.
A HOA near me likes to boot vehicles "in violation" and went a bit too far last summer. They have a policy that absolutely no commercial vehicles are permitted in to be kept in the HOA. Well, here is what happened when they booted a welding truck inside a guys garage. Guy is a metal fabricator and welder that owns his own small business and his personal vehicle is his pickup that has a welding rig in the bed. His decals are magnetic so he can remove them easily when needed. He had been warned about parking in the driveway, so he keeps it in his garage. He was working in his backyard one day and had the garage open as he was going back and forth for tools. While he was around back, the patrol came by, saw the truck and that he had been warned, so they booted the truck. The truck was parked inside his garage so they entered onto private property to do this. He saw it after they left and called the HOA management team who just said he had to pay a $400 fine to remove it. He went through the whole "trespassed to do this", but the phone jockey had none of it. His lawyer said they could fight it, but the costs would be more than the fine and unless the police came and cut it off (not likely on private property) he would have to wait. Basically pay now and fight to get the money back. He decided to take his wife's car to the main office of the management company and go face to face. Well, that went nowhere as well and they were pretty rude about how they talked to him, which was the final straw. He went back home and used his tools to break the boot and tossed it into his truck. He then drove back to the management company and thanks to their use of reserved parking spaces he was able to easily identify the managers car. He then welded the boot onto the car and left. Cops supposedly were laughing as they took the report and arrested him for criminal mischief. Couldn't find out what happened to the charge, but I would take a criminal record in that instance.
@@12namleht , my understanding is he is/was self employed. I followed the post he made on the Nextdoor App where he recounted the story and how he was "out on bail" pending formal charges for criminal mischief and any other charges they came up with. I just checked his profile and he has no other posts except an ad for a used washer and dryer a month or so after this story. I'd like to know the final outcome, but either way it was a great read.
Maybe he would have been better off removing the lock and just tossing it in some public trash bin away from the property. If asked what happened, no response required. The manager would have been out the cost of the device.
@@ACitizenOfOurWorld , not arguing that his action wasn't the best idea for him. However, the notoriety of his action ceased booting in the immediate area, so I guess he "took one for the team" with some humor added on.
A buddy of mine who runs a mobile repair service got booted once. Told me he just looked at it for a bit, went to his tool compartment, came out with the oxy acetylene torch and the boot turned into a puddle.
Never mess with a welder. I was an inch away from welding all four of my neighbors doors shut on her car because if i even look at my harley she calls a noise complaint. It has stock pipes... Police even told her to stop.
@@joshp2542 at that point I'd just make it a point to be a asshole to her. Had the same thing happen with my old muscle car. So I just sat out there house and rev bombed it for a solid 2 minutes then parked it in my back yard. Cops came and I acted dumb lol
Imagine booting someone's car and seeing them come back and pick the lock like this and then they just put the car boot in their trunk and drive off. Like not only did your scam/prank fail but you lost the boot as well and the money you spent on it was wasted
So much effort put into scamming people that could result in more money if put into something more productive... Its like the scammers do it for the thrill
@N Fels still what you did should be considered illegal given yoy booted someones car. I mean if thats legal they could have picked the lock and booted your car instead. So either you just admitted to a crime, you're lying, or that person should have booted your car instead given if what you did was legal then it would be legal for them to do it back
@N Fels thing is I'm pretty sure YOU don't have the legal right to do something like that. Especially considering if they got fired they could sue you for damages as someone inconveniencing you as they were even if it's against the law doesn't give you the legal right to do the same thing back. Frankly you could have (and should have) been sued
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yeah turn off your computer, your cell phone and your TV and go do something that requires physical effort and maybe you'll understand something useful.
That was my first thought also. I get that the lawyer is showing how to remove it without damaging it, and I'm all for the "right tool for the job" method but if someone illegally put a boot on my truck, they'd come back to find a pile of cut up scrap.
@@wcsd9577 it seems like something that you should take with you and dump somewhere else, but at this point i know there are tracking chips on them so there's no winning. kinda sucks. you either get fined for the ticket and the boot or you get fined for the ticket and vandalization of the boot...
@@helchin93 This was about a scammer's boot which is why I said "illegally". A scammer won't know who to send the ticket to, and even if they did you have no reason or obligation to pay a scammer a single cent. I agree though that you should take the boot with you, that way you have something to throw through their front window when you find their scam operation.
I recall hearing how the French hit back with parking authorities, ( not scammers) clamping cars. People started carrying a tube of super glue with them and would fill up the lock on any clamp they saw. When the authorities came to unlock them, they couldn't and would have to cut off their own locks, or incur even more wrath from the irate motorist, ( who hadn't actually done it, and had paid their fine). Chaos, but the French have developed protest into a fine art !
I had my semi booted once making a delivery, I used my bolt cutters and a crow bar and removed it . Never heard a word from the towing company as they put it on while I was making a legit delivery.
Same here I had my semi booted in Atlanta Georgia I was running out of hours and didn’t have enough time to find parking due to traffic on the loop there..pulled up to a strip club where I saw other trucks found the owner he ran my debit card and handed me a sticker saying (parking paid )for my window on a very small piece of paper . I called family there went and crashed for the night to return to some young buck sitting outside trying to look tough in camp pants and black t shirt in military boots he says is this your truck I say it sure ain’t yours take off the boot he said your parked illegally I opened the door handed him the sticker he instantly felt stupid and said I didn’t see that I said no shit buddy!!
The apartments I recently moved into have a business scheme with a no-name towing company that goes around booting people's cars at night for minor infractions like out of date tags. Each night you can walk around and see a bunch of cars booted, and then of course my own car ended up booted when the registration was one day expired. They're forcing tenants to pay $75 to have access to their vehicles again. Going to grab myself some tools to remove these rather than be extorted to be able to use my own personal property.
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In high school they would charge us $5/month for a parking pass (back in the late 1970's that was quite the hit to a high school student). Most students laughed it off until the school district had the village police department come out and issue parking tickets. A parent did some research and found out that the land that the parking lot was located on was not owned by the school district so they had no authority to be issuing paid for parking passes, or to give authority to the police to issue tickets.
The farmer who did own the land that the parking lot was on ended up getting involved. He sued the school district for all of the parking pass money and issued permits to the students for free. If school administrators wanted to park there, they had to get a parking pass that they paid for. There was a row that was meant to be reserved for teachers, when they didn't pay he parked agricultural equipment behind their vehicles so they were effectively trapped in their parking spots.
Your school district sounds pretty rough, tbh.
That Farmer sounds amazing and deserves good crops every year.
And this is the origin story of Farmers Insurance, a syndicate of farmers getting together to protect the students.
God damn that farmer is clever
That Farmer is a G
You only need two tools, a large screwdriver and the Skeleton key that I got from Nocturnal after returning her eye to her shrine.
I play modded Skyrim. The skeleton key is for noobs 🤓
You have to return the Skeleton Key tard boy what are you talking about
@@angus_does_it_all Not in oblivion
@@dr.floridamanphd ok but that’s not the game so what’s your point
@@angus_does_it_all you do but I never did so it’s mine now lol
“I got sent to prison, and I must say that the locks here have flaws that are INEXCUSABLE.”
Why isn't this top comment?
No jail could ever hold him. He should make a yotube serie where he escapes from prison
You dont want to know where he kept the tools hidden 💩
Defend Europe Hell yeah he should prove that the locks there are bad too.
nice pfp
You forgot the part about finding the scammer's car and throwing the boot device through his windshield.
then take it to the scammer’s car, clamp it on their wheel, then fill the adjustment bolt area w epoxy
Bro, don't give it back to him, just take it home or something
@@piggypoo Free metal
Haha yeah that's exactly what I'd feel like doing 😂
@@piggypoo that's theft and they could take you to small claims or something for it, better to dump it somewhere.
Caught a guy booting my car - grabbed sawzall out of the back. He laughed and said it would never cut through - I laughed and told him it was for his feet.
LOL
Sawzmost* FTFY
That's too funny LMFAO.
Get the diamond blades
So in the end he won because you never cut his feet
Imagine trying to arrest this man "these handcuffs have some inexcusable flaws"
Handcuffs are very easy to pick actually, so long as you're not the one wearing them.
He did a similar gag in the episode where he raided the naughty bucket at BosnianBill's house. (on Bill's channel)
Ash Alopex link?
@@decadeyt5891 ruclips.net/video/1jSHwaOR_eo/видео.html
Ash Alopex Thank you
"It turns out that the right tools are nothing but a screwdriver-"
Me: ok, not too bad
"-and a tubular lockpick"
Me: oh. nevermind
Actually that little trap door thingy looked pretty flimsy. I bet a really big screwdriver or small pry bar would defeat it. And the of course the screwdriver.
@@bradleyweiss1089 The screwdriver by itself probably could have opened it.
Tubular locks can be opened with a pen or marker that's the right circumference. There's a defcon video about it....also, it's fairly easy to get access to many tubular lock keys.
Ot a good angle grinder. That way all you need is one single tool. The sparks are just a nice bonus.
You can open those locks with a BIC pen in a few seconds.
I think I'm going to buy a car boot from Amazon. Then I will park my car with impunity in all the places I'm not allowed to, boot up my own car, leave something that looks like a citation in a long envelope tucked into the windshield, and go run my errands. When done, I remove my boot and off I go. Every cop or scammer will think I've already been snagged by one of them and leave my car alone. Thanks for this idea!
Looks like a quality piece of junk from Harbor Freight.
That's brilliant!
You're assuming your boot and fake parking tickets will be identical to the ones they use. You're also assuming they won't just put a second boot and ticket on your vehicle. I wouldn't mess around with that. Just buy a set of boot keys.
My dad had a friend in college that did something like this. He got a parking ticket, and instead of paying it he just kept it and put it on his windshield every time he parked anywhere. It apparently took a long time to get caught too.
My buddy needed to step out of the bar to take a phone call, but was worried that someone would take his beer, which he could not take out with him. So he wrote a little note saying "I spit in this" and left it with the beer to deter any would be beverage thieves.
When he returned from his call he found someone had written on the bottom of his note:
"So did I"
Ah, the boot. Because nothing says "You shouldn't park here" quite like making it impossible for you to be parked anywhere else.
Somebody deflated my tire once because they didn't like me parking in front of their house. When I got to the car they were standing up in their living room to see what I would do. Since I didn't have a way to pump it up and no time to get the tire off and get it fixed (they broke the valve) I just left it there. When I came back a few days later to get it sorted they came out of their house to ask why I didn't take the car away sooner.. Needless to say I told them that unfortunately didn't have time to get it fixed and was just there to get something out of the car and would deal with it later.
If I was a super rich evil asshole I'd just buy loads of old bangers, $1000 cars, and park them all over someone's carpark who had aggrieved me in some minor way. Wait for them to clear them all away, do it again. For extra points put something valuable looking but worthless in each footwell (empty laptop bag, budget briefcase) and soak the car in foul odours. They would open them up every time in hope that there were valuables. They'd have no choice but to pay to scrap the cars themselves. Keep putting more cars there until their business implodes.
@@johannes.f.r. At that point I'd say you were lucky to still have your windows.
so true.
mandavaler NO DO not keep it it’s evidence you cut it off
I love how he talks about extremely niche tools like everyone has one. "All you need is a screwdriver and a squigglybonk..."
LOL
Not many people carry a sqigglybonk in their car.
@Phil M nope , it’s legal in every state I have lived in. There are exceptions for instance if you are carrying them to commit a crime
It’s illegal. Lol.
Where does one acquire said squigglybonk?
A simple but effective alternative to the squigglybonk is a plastic tube from a BIC pen - Nearly everyone has one in their car somewhere, and as far as I know, a BIC pen is legal in every state.
Lol my city had a guy in a cheap superhero suit who went around with an angle grinder cutting these up into pieces but thankfully booting has been totally outlawed so he's retired I assume
Angle Grinder Man!
What city was it?!?
@@thatguyyoudontknow Perth western Australia
Hero
They've got new trick I just found out about today tow truck drivers got caught using jammers to disable everyone's key fobs in a car park then charged people to tow away their "broken cars" apparently nearly 400 people couldn't use their fobs and without them the immobilizers (they're mandatory here) couldn't recognise the fobs meaning even if you used your key your car wouldn't start they're getting pretty clever on a side note when I was younger and airbags first came on the scene had a friend who's uncle's ran a tow company and they'd pay us 50-100 a car to go around hitting the airbag sensors with a hammer making them impossible to drive so they'd get the tow I know it was scummy thing to do but I was young and stupid/selfish I genuinely feel bad for fucking up people's cars like that just for money to get high
And remember kids; those boots are heavy and scrap metal merchants pay by weight.
“This is the lock picking lawyer and I was just walking by the White House when I decided this would be a good opportunity to...”
*is in front of president*
LPL: another inexcusable design flaw
*LPL in prison* "so I'm in prison for breaking into the White House and I thought this would be a good opportunity to..."
*Is in front of prison cell door*
LPL: another inexcusable design flaw
"LPL in federalprison* so I'm in federalprison for breaking out of the prison and I thought this would be a good opportunity to..."
*Is standing outside of prison*
LPL: And there we go. I'd like to see a higher security option though
LPL in front of heaven's gates, "So God said I couldn't get into heaven because if all the places I've broken out of so I though this would be a good opportunity to..."
I dont know how to continue :(
LPL inside heaven:
Another inexcusable design flaw
LPL inside a cage in hell:
"So God tossed me in hell for breaking in heaven and Satan locked me up in a maximum security torture cell, and I thought this would be a great opportunity to..."
Imagine putting this dude in a jail cell and 15 minutes later you hear "These gun locks have a pretty major flaw in them" behind you
"You're locks are already open."
Omae wa no shindeiru.
LOL
@@rclc3655 NANI?!
Given the number of gun lock videos he has on his channel, I wouldn't be surprised if such an interaction were to take place.
AbsoFreakinLutely.😂
I have always laughed at the idea of a boot… “hey. You’re occupying a space you aren’t paying for… therefore, we are going to boot your car so you can’t leave the spot that we need you to leave.”
Follow the money, honey...
*can't leave until you pay us the fine plus extra now since we booted you
Meaning they get more money. It's a big win for the company. Cause most the time you can't live without ur car.
A angle grinder and cut the bastard thing to pieces
@@christopherbell2091 This is why I always carry a battery powered angle grinder in my trunk
@@bobowon5450 Makita is your friend
The important thing is to remember to take the clamp with you when you leave.
No, that's theft
@@whitewolf30f What is it if I toss it in a dumpster a couple blocks away?
@@whitewolf30f Only if you get caught. I'd take it home, make an impression of the 2 lock holes,and devise a tool to fit each of them. Then I'd dump the boot & keep the tools in my car. Hidden but easily accessed.
@@whitewolf30f No, they put it on YOUR car, it's a demented gift :P
@@whitewolf30f So what?
I bet LPL never leaves his house without his *TUBULAR LOCK IMPRESSION TOOL*
Well it does leave a good impression...
He prolly dosent tbh 😂😂
He never leaves home without the tool he abd bosnian bill made
Where can I get one of tubular lock impression tool?
I always keep one in my car for the laundry mat
I was at Johns Hopkins when Baltimore PD started using The Boot. They learned really quickly not to use it near the Homewood campus, because the engineering students reaction was “Cool. Let’s take this new toy and see how it works!”. Didn’t even have to be on their car; they’d take any Boot they saw.
that is the most engineering thing ever. instead of "ah shit. gotta pay for that to be taken off now" they went " shiny thing! "
That is such an engineering student moment
lol that's one way to fund the engineering department
The best thing, too, is that it’s illegal in many places. If you’re caught screwing around with it, you can be like ‘this is criminal mischief and, yeah, any attempt to intervene will have me call the police ON YOU.’
@@TheAmbush101 This is Baltimore gentlemen. The boot gods will not save you.
“This is the Lockpicking Lawer, and today I came across Pandora’s box, and I thought this good opportunity to show you what unimaginable horrors are behind this inexcusable lock.”
So now we know why 2020 happened.
Well from the myth the only thing left in the box is hope so open it open it now.
@@maliceharding4668 Ah yes, hope. The last and WORST of Pandora's horrors. Because when your hopes are crushed, it's worse.
@@maliceharding4668 That myth never made any sense to me. Like why would you let out all the bad stuff, but then keep hope inside where it can't get out?
@@Strangebyrd I mean, who locks up all that with a Masterlock, anyway?
I was involved in one of those boot scam's. Called the supposed company, while the supposed representee and my wife were debating the issue on the other side of the car. Using a couple of tool's in my multitool I've carried for year's. Removed the boot, informed my wife to get in the car, and the three of us drove off. Me, my wife and the boot. That little scam cost them the price of one boot.
This never happened.
You don't need an apostrophe when making a word plural. scams. years. It's for possession of something, Bob's car or to replace letters left out in a contraction. Do not = Don't. Carry on.
Heh. ^_^
@@d-rot For me it was the two sentences that should be one: "Using a couple of tools in my multitool I've carried for years, I removed...". He did use an Oxford comma, so I'm happy with that.
@@Darapsa Agree. And it's an awkward phrase to say "a couple of tools in my multitool." Just say "using my multitool" and delete "I've carried for years." Doesn't matter if it is new to you or decades old. You're taking off a boot, we know you're a boy scout, always prepared.
scammer: puts on a boot, leaves number on windshield
this guy, removes boot, texts number with “thanks for the boot loser”
Kazotsky eat your cereal
Better to not give them a phone number and probable cause to pass onto the cops regarding the boot they just gave you...
fuck off kid you’re 12
@ why so mean though
deadpan cause he’s 12
Next on the local Chicago News: "Local lawyer gets booted by scammer, steals scammer's boot."
Week later: "Criminals are stealing scammer's boot by parking bait car, waiting for it to get locked, picking boot and driving away with it. According to anonymous sources, scammers are losing thousands of dollars each day."
@@slava_trushkin Week after that.... "everyone involved in all of the previous stories has been shot, because it's Chicago. In fact, I've just now been shot while doing this news report. I'm gonna shoot back and then head to the hospital, back to you Bob"
The entirety of scammer's house was found utterly unlocked. Nothing missing.
@camjamsdad Yeah..... the majority of shootings that occur in Chicago are largely restricted to two very impoverished neighborhoods, usually with guns purchased in Wisconsin or Indiana. And people have been crying "their coming for our guns, their coming for our guns" for nearly 40 years now...... history speaks volumes for those willing to listen. Its alarmism at its finest, since only a vocal minority is truly trying to take everyone's guns. What most people want, is just some damn common sense when it comes to the sales ans usage of guns. Gun training, licensing, regular safety training. Make sure the people buying the guns know how to use them, rather than just trying to imitate the movie "Commando" or something
There's a great video of an English guy who removed a clamp from his car and locked it to his fence, then told the bailiffs that getting it back would cost £2000, but he'll do them a deal and reduce it to £395 if they pay today (the prices the bailiffs had given him in the first place). They phoned the police, who told them that because the clamp hadn't been damaged there was nothing they could do about it, and cutting the guy's padlocks or fence would be criminal damage lol
I’m starting to think this guy has something personal against locks.
A lock Ruined his life so he is taking revenge
A lock killed his brother. Tragic.
A lock shot his parents in an alleyway and ever since then he's sworn revenge.
Locks killed his wife and his kids now he’s taking revenge on every lock
A lock killed his grate grandfather
Told to park in a specific location in support of the Lilac Festival in Spokane WA, I returned to find a 55-gallon barrel cabled to the rear of my pickup truck. Flipped it into the bed and it made a nice BBQ for our barracks party's. :)
In the voice of Larry the Cable Guy, say: I don't care WHO you are--that's funny right there!
they thought that would work to immobilize a pickup truck???
@@oofoof4875Evidently the schmuck thought it would ..
Schmuck 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂
Spokane is SUPER shady with parking nonsense, The lots will purposely put misleading signage or no signage all then try to hold your car for ransom. FUCK SPOKANE!
They didnt put the cable through the wheel? Amateurs
"...And you'll only need a screwdriver"
:D
"and a tubular lockpick"
D:
Or a Biro, look at picking bad tubular locks.
@ Getting past the lock is not going to be easy with just a screwdriver, and might damage the lock enough to make it even harder to get in.
@@OtakuUnitedStudio You don't know how to pry open a small flap of metal with a screwdriver?
Pretend he said drill.
@@SteelOfLegend or hammer. It didnt look that thick.
"It turns out that the right tools are nothing but a screwdriver and an *alien probing tool."*
I wouldn't know.
🤣🤣🤣
..... I DID read that as "Anal Probing Tool" the first time >_< !
@@JPLooney Same thing.
Honestly you could probably use the same screwdriver and just crowbar open the door
Just buy one of these, park anywhere you want, stick one on your wheel and you'll never get clamped again 😂
Or buy one, take the key everywhere you went, and just unboot yourself if you get clamped.
@@StevoDesign that assumes that all boots have the same key. not a good idea, especially if there are multiple different makes and models of boot
@@N8crafter fair point, but I'm assuming that in a given city most companies will in fact be using the same make and model. If not, yeah it might be better to carry a boot around and always boot and unboot yourself wherever you go. But at that point I think it's less trouble to just park correctly so I don't have to worry about being booted. Not a viable shortcut to me.
@@N8crafter
In my city they don't boot you, they tow you. :'-(
Because of all the complaints here in NZ, the Government set a limit of $100 fine ONLY and if they try and charge you more, the Police will come down and arrest them! The practice of Wheel Clamping is almost non existent now!
Meanwhile we have to pay to park in a public hospital tax payer funded car park, only in New Zealand.
@@secondchance6603 I've never had to pay for parking at a hospital.
Officer: “Sorry sir, can’t take it off. You’re illegally parked.”
LPL: “One is loose, two is binding…”
Underrated comment, big time.
Amazing comment! Agree - totally underrated.
Bahahaha
🤣🤣🤣
Hahahaha 10 out of 10
I like to imagine several viewers of this videos were standing right next to their locked cars and looking for how to get this thing off
100%
Portable angle grinder, grind off the head of that pin holding the clamping circle and hammer out the pin. Won't be able to resell it on ebay though unless you put in a new pin and mushroom over the head.
Lol that's a funny mental picture (also I have never made a comment like this before because I think they're kinda stupid, but I was the 666th like so I guess I'm dead now) *Edited 2 months later* Ew. I'm annoyed I even took the time to say that. Blegh. But not really.
@@yunggolem4687 tubular lock? so a pen would open it, you just need to push hard enough. there are some videos about that out there.
I bet that little door can be crowbar opened or drill the lock out.
Good thing we all carry a tubular lock impressioning tool with us wherever we go.
They're not expensive. Now you know about them you can make sure you have one just in case.
@@hearmenow909 Got a sawzall and a grinder, just in case.
I actually carry three tubular impression tools and a pick set almost everywhere I go. 😬😬😬😬😬
You have to be careful. Some states consider having lock picking tools as burglary tools and you get a felony. California is one of them as one point might still be.
I believe you could also use the Same screwdriver to twist that. Maybe you just Need a Little More force
Make sure to keep the boot, take it home and show it to your friends as a memento of your time in Chicago.
Reattach it to the Mayor's car
@@natehill8069
Only if the mayor is crap, nate!
This dudes goanna commit a felony one day and just walk out of prison
So yeah the lock on the prison armoury was pretty weak so i picked it an managed to get myself out of prisoner with a free shotgun!
@@shadowxxe desinc
@@Lunarr_Eclipse how did you know i read his comment in his voice? GET OUT OF MY HEAD lol
bold of you to assume he didn't already
shadowXXe Wait...was he at Ware State Prison last night?
If you ever get locked out of your house, talk to your lock calmly.
After all Communication is the Key.
😂
😂
That joke is older than the Colosseum
🤣😂🤣😂
😂
“Let’s get outside, and put this on my car” *has absolutely zero worries about getting it off*
When you buy the thing yourself the keys tend to come with it; but that wouldn't make for a very interesting video.
@@60sSam was about to comment the same thing lol
It would have came with a key, and these are staged. He normally picks them first before filming. That gives him time to buy the pick tools..
and then there's people like this
@@kevinsnyder333 buy?? Lol hes a professional with hundreds or thousands of pick videos, even developed his own tools, maybe research what you're talking about before commenting lol
When I was in college these things were just coming out. My school was in a city where the city used to see booting students cars as a big revenue source. I kept a portable acetylene torch in my trunk and had to cut a bunch of them off. I had a piece of fire board to stick between the frame and the tire and it took less than a minute to cut through the lower arm. It was mild steel so the cutting head sliced through it real quick. I couldn't have been the only kid destroying them because after a couple of years they stopped using them. My guess is they ran out of them.
Oh, now they put your car into the database and since the boots cost them some money if you break it they might go after you.
it can even be said to be vandalism or a crime in some twisted places.
@@Victor-tl4dk Maybe - but they can't prove the boot was vandalised or damaged if they can't find it. ;-)
Lol buddy, you were doing God's work.
@@markd.9538 Yes, they can.
They put the boot on your car, they have it written down that there is a boot on your car, and if the boot is removed by anyone but them, it’s vandalism. The only thing is that they can’t prove that it was you specifically, even if it can be reasonably assumed it was you.
You'll find in the legal system that proving that the act is attributable to the person you're accusing is a fairly important step.
OHHH a tubular lock pick. Everyone has those. I keep mine next to my Ark of the Covenant and the heart of the ocean
Apparently you could also use a pen if it’s the right circumference
I keep mine in the holy grail.
@frostek Neither do half-inch drill bits. More likely to be located next to a cordless drill.
Yeah it's so hard to acquire those tubular lock picks... but I happen to know a guy, that works at the store where they sell those, and you can actually buy them just like any other item on the planet... the one thing they don't sell/can't buy anywhere is common sense... so can't help you there.
oof, i'D rather keep mine in my diamond chestplate's front pocket
My Dad took one of these clamps from his car years ago and threw it into the river. He was summonsed to court. His solicitor asked the clamping dickheads ‘did you see my client remove the clamp? If so, where is it’ they said they couldn’t but it was obviously him. The case got thrown out and clampers had to pay my Dads court costs and loss of earnings. I was so proud of him that day...!
Now that is great. Your dad and his solicitor would have been doing the victorious man dance after that! I just wonder if the booter's side asked him under oath if he removed the boot.
raksh9 Can you even do that? Thats basically asking “Did you commit the crime?”. If it was that easy everyone would either be convicted or free.
raksh9 He would have lied if they did. He was an inveterate liar. He lied in front of my Mother, a Catholic Priest, His Family and about 200 friends to be faithful until death etc... Yeah, right. Mostly I hated this character flaw, until this day and a few other times his character flaws came in handy for me...
@@jargonellie6630 Ah! That makes sense.
raksh9 well if they didn’t see him remove it, and they clearly didn’t have any evidence otherwise they wouldn’t have to ask that question then his lie would have worked perfectly fine lol. That’s not how the law works.
This sort of highway robbery happened to one of my cousins traveling out of state to visit family for the holidays several years back near Cleveland Ohio, if memory serves me correctly. The supposed company who installed the boot on his dodge ram pickup, wanted $1500 to remove the boot, little did they know, he had just brought a dwalt cordless grinder and some grinding wheels as well as some cut off wheels, as well as other stuff on Black Friday. Not only did he cut through that boot in less than a minute, but also photographed the surrounding area, noting that there was no signs indicating no parking zones, and believed he was targeted because he had out of state tags. Fast forward a week or so later, he gets a letter in the mail threatening legal action for the cost of the boot and so on, took him to court, and the person who installed the boot didn't show up, so the judge had no choice but to dismiss the suit.
And no, my cousin was never targeted again, that I'm aware. 😊
@@jeffh.9999 can you further explain please?
It's a shame that these clowns managed to waste so much of your cousin's time.
Kyle is a hero’s name, kudos to you sir.
@@monetschannel5773 amen
@@Registered_Democrat could you imagine what would have happened had they had the balls to enter that courtroom like they could win, that would have been hilarious to see.
It's been 3 years and so far I have 2 of these things in my shed, apparently the guys who do this were so stupid they forgot they booted my fathers car so they put another one and didn't realise the other one had been removed, after the 2nd one I think they knew they were only giving someone 😎👍 free scrap metal at that point.
Go forge something out of it ( lol jk )
"Hello, this is the Lock Picking Lawyer, and I was recently told by a subscriber, that this Bank keeps illegally acquired goods in its vault..."
Better than mind-controlling a goblin to get in.
@@joshuahadams Nice one! :-D
When can we get Lock Picking Lawyer as a Payday dlc character?
True story, in 1982 I worked for the City of Columbia MO. When the tow driver showed up to pick up a booted car it was gone. Shelly the meter maid went to verify where she booted it and indeed it was gone. Police looked up the address based on the license number on the ticket and went there. Car was sitting in the driveway. Owner said he knew nothing about the boot, just went out to his car and drove away. They learned later that he was a locksmith but had no evidence he wasn't telling the truth.
Why did you go to his house? He played fair and won.
@@MicrowaveBakedPotato I did not, the police did. I was in charge of traffic signals and my office was in the old train station and so was the meter maids is why I know about this.
Oh I see
@@alexandermundy2403 🤣
Columbia MO must have been a pretty crime free town in 1982 if the police have time to drive to a guys house and question him about the major crime of.... boot removal. And then have enough spare time to also follow up and find out he's a locksmith!
It must have been the crime of the century, likely rivaling Alice's restaurant massacree of 1965. Did the officer make any 8x10 color glossy photographs, with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one?
"All you need is a screwdriver and a tool no regular human-being will ever possess."
I have one in my wallet lockpick set lol.
@Smurf Account What exactly is it? Looks like a torx wrench but it can't really be that simple...or could it?
Use a dent puller on the lock, though I think I would get worlds of satisfaction useing my angle grinder and cut the ATM off the boot, lol
honestly, the outer shell of a pen would do
There's another video where a guy uses a plastic pen, pliers, and a screwdriver.
I love reading all the stories of people breaking, cutting, stealing all these things all over the place. Glad to see people are still down for some good old fashioned civil disobedience
My service truck is constantly get getting booted for parking in residential areas. Never understand why someone would boot a truck stocked full of power tools.
That is just too funny!
They're not smart enough to think about that
Torch could work.
Those rivets are usually aluminum at that size, but even if they're steel you're just out one 1/4 drill bit and his boot is unusable after that.
The only person making out on this is the person selling the cutoff wheel for the grinder
Business idea: park illegally and sell the boot clamps on eBay.
@Heyhw Hdgte Net gain would be -250$ then? I’m not sure what you are saying
Buy one and put it on your wheel youself
Parking idea, boot yourself, and remove it when you want to leave. Rent a cops won’t bother looking at an already booted car.
@@sarissanhunter7227 jesus christ you're smart
@@sarissanhunter7227 i have seen cars with two or even three or four boots.
I had my car booted in an apartment complex parking lot. I actually was able to get the tire off, put the spare on, drove home and took a sawzaw to it. They lost out on a, at the time, $300 boot. This was 20 years ago.
The boots cover the lug nuts so that is impossible.
@@golden.lights.twinkle2329 it's very possible. This wasn't a boot like the city uses, more like a clamp, in which the lugs are obstructed but not completely blocked like in this video. Bulldog wheel clamp and boot was the manufacturer if I remember correctly.
They get your tag number when they put the boot on. What happened when they came for you?
@@percyhawkins716 they never came for me. An apartment complex has no legal right to boot a vehicle. They're not a law enforcement agency, so they can't do anything about it. They can have it towed, but they can't boot it. Nothing ever happened besides them losing a boot (it was more like a clamp) and me having a funny story 20 years later.
OK, thanks!
Years ago, I had a boot placed on my work truck, which, among many other tools, had an oxygen/acetylene torch and 50' hoses. It was off nearly as fast as shown in this video. I wouldn't put a boot on a truck was showing a visible cutting torch.
I worked for a booting company one time, a tweaker guy would steal the boots and sell them back to my boss
Fattys Papers hahahahaha
Why are all tweakers living in 3019
Should’ve just shot him when he showed up with a boot
@@pokemaster123ism or...hear me out...just don't accept the boots
@@pokemaster123ismBit dramatic wating to shoot someone for that. Polish/American by any chance?
"This is the Lock Picking Lawyer, coming in from Fort Knox. already seeing some serious design flaws."
Go the the Bureau of Engraving and Printing...it's where all the cash is produced..
Fortunately for all your money, these flaws are compensated for by nice men with guns.
"And today we're looking at the twin locks for launching a nuclear retaliation strike..."
@@ThePCguy17 Fortunately the guns are just as easy to disassemble in motion.
@@oromis995 You're not wrong, but I doubt you can do 10 at a time. And you'd be lucky to deal with less at once.
"Getting back my impounded car speedrun."
Underrated
@@guard_4490 in like 5 months will probably have 10K
@@tylnozcn27 It looks like it will
@@tylnozcn27 2 years no 10k😮💨
@@l.tproductions3489 :(
For me the preferred method would have been a hammer with the screw driver to bend the cheap little door open .....not much more difficult and a common tool !
My dad said if you learn lockpick, it opens soo many doors for you.
heh my dad said hes just going to buy milk
haha, have a like
Except for good grammar
@@brad9704 good grammar is too right wing ;D
Jack Soo had a man door. Got a lot of use cuz of all that coffee.
"the only tools you need are a screwdriver..."
me: yeah ok seems simple
"...and a tubular lock pick."
:/
they're like 10 bucks
10 bucks at Walmart.
Yes but a screwdriver is something someone is likely to already have. An impressioning tool is not
Honestly that door is really thin. I think a hammer and some form of spike could pierce it or even some drills. If you do not have a hammer a pointy rock could do some damage as well.
@@abrahamweiss5827 probably can be pried open really easy
Imagine the amount of hatred people have against the guy who invented this
The first ones were invented in the 20’s as anti-theft devices because stealing cars was very easy back then. It wasn’t until the 40’s that Denver, Colorado had one specially designed for immobilizing other people’s cars for outstanding traffic tickets.
@D'niro Gavin Nothing goes over his head, his reflexes are too good.
A friend of mine got booted in apartment parking garage. After 5 minutes of debate, he paid using either as credit card or debit card.
Immediately after that, he contacted the card company and canceled payment.
I had a boot on my car once (sketchy tow company). That day my angle grinder got to eat 🤣 🤣 🤣. I made sure to clean up all the evidence. A couple days later I was contacted by the tow company and asked "um sir, did we accidentally boot your vehicle by mistake recently?" to which I replied "No, you must have the wrong person...."
exactly what I thought....4" angle grinder with cut-off wheel. Chop that piece of shit right in two
Grinder was all nomnomnom burp delicious!!
Haha thats awesome fuckem!!
Yeah, was gonna say, that'd last maybe a hot thirty seconds against the Flexvolt grinder with the 6" cutting wheel I've got in the tool box. And that assumes I take my time cutting it square in half, instead of just slicing off one side and twisting the rest away. lol
@Bobby Brady I'd need a closer look at it, but possible you'd only need to pop the end off of one of those bolts/pins holding it together.
2 weeks later it's on your car again with a bead of weld....
When I was in the navy, I was out with a few friends when we came back to my buddies car, and saw a boot on it. It wasnt the full boot that covered the lugnuts. We couldnt figure out why he was booted. We just took the tire off, and put on the spare tire and drove away. We used a sawzall to cut the boot off, and never heard anything about it. 😝
Wasn't the boot obstructing the nut hole (or lug hole) ?
@@pan2aja 'It wasnt the full boot that covered the lugnuts.'
Wow
Untill now...
Great job!
Cost of wheel lock clamp: 50$
Cost of tubular impressioning tool set: 20$
Sounds like you can even make money out of these scammers...
You would need the proper Key to sell the boot. Or a new tubular lock and the right tool for thightening it.
@@MrJimShorts boi
Correct me if I'm wrong.
The boot gets put on the wheel. ( by the clamper ).
The car driver gets prosecuted if/for tampering with the boot . But an bystander ( LPL ) could remove the boot.
" i don't know him ..... "
@@MrJimShorts waht
transfactory but how would you make a key copy if you don’t have the key?
This is why I always have battery powered angle grinder on my little toolbox. Universal lock picking tool 😊
And a battery powered sawzall
Car booting/clamping never took off in France.
Reason being that when they started using them everybody got riled up about it to the extent that people started to carry superglue.
Whenever they saw a clamped car they'd squirt some into the lock. As a result when the car's owner later paid the fine the scammers could not release the car without destroying the clamp/boot. They soon stopped clamping cars.
Brilliant. Those French know a thing or two about resistance.
@@bfrehksdhf tais-toi
@@z1lla4 Exactly what I'm talking about! Love it :D
If they were smart they could use a solvent to remove the glue... But I guess if they were smart they would be scamming people
I would agree if they knew it was superglue but they didn't. All they knew was that when came to releasing the clamp they couldn't get the key in and a really pissed off car owner watching them.
Ah I remember when this was a thing, my budys started up a 5 dollar removal service and we would remove these things. We would call the local police and ask If they booted [car: license plate] if no we would remove it. The 5 bucks was Just to cover gas
You all were doing the lord's work.👌🏽 😂God bless you!
There was a Guy in Budapest who dressed up in super hero and cutted of the boot from the car in the city, someone always helped to plug in the cutter throw a window.
Normally official boots have stickers all over them about what police department put it on and the fines you will get if you remove it.
Yeah ooookay. Sure. People nowadays will make up anything for a few likes on RUclips. Sad. Are you really that desperate for some likes??? 🤡😂
These are the type of batmen we need 🤣
Scammer: boots the car, leaves a ransom note for $200...
Me: removes the boot and texts a ransom pic to the scammer for $40 to get his boot back.
*$400
FTFY
If you do that, your best bet would be to report the scammer's illegitimate car boot to the police, and then tell them when/where the scammer will be going to try to get his boot back.
make it a 100$
Lol
I'd cut it up for scrap or throw it in the lake
I used a Battery Powered Recip Saw against a fake boot several years ago. Felt very satisfied leaving it on the sidewalk where I was parked. Called to cops and told them where to find it, and they caught the Boot scammer right away. That was a great day. Just carry a Battery Powered Recip Saw, and you will be out of the boot in 3 minutes.
"This is the Lock Picking Lawyer, and today we are going to be breaking in to Fort Knox"
Video length: 1:35
Look through LPL's recent videos, he actually did break into Fort Knox. Didn't take that long, got some gold too.
There isn't any gold in Fort Knox. Just sweat and Army cadets.
*U.S. government, wait that’s illegal*
Why? There is nothing there. We paid France Billions in gold bullion in 1972. all gone. What! No one told you?
Here's why Goldfinger wasted his time trying to break in with explosives
I was on a construction site and "they" made the mistake of putting Boots onto "welding rigs".
In less than a minute they were cut loose with grinders.
Sure. The company would be on the hook to pay for them because the police know which vehicles they were put on and someone arrested for destroying police property.
@@Ae13UPrime "they" in this case being scammers using the boots, not actual police.
Why boot construction vehicles parked in their work site?
We had a big generator and very large angle grinders on the back of the truck. We stood there looking up and down many times until the curiosity why it was put on in the first place eventually won.
But then, days later, we still wanted to grind one of those things. Drove around a bit but couldn't find any.
You did the right thing :)
Why didnt you cut it off with the welder????
@@mksonmor Welding is hot, rubber has a significantly lower melting point than metal.
I still prefer super-gluing the lock thoroughly up, then calling them out to remove it, and watching them cut their own boot for the release fee, knowing they've lost money on it because a good lock is worth more than the fee. For extra points, you can then press charges for damages to the alloy when they cut the lock off :D
Right I'd have to imagine the sparks would leave some kind of damage on the car if even minor
@@Crimsen13 they usually mark the alloy in the process of cutting right through. I just like to ensure that despite them taking cash from me, they'll be spending it on a new lock. 😂
These boots are dirt cheap, 30 to 60 bucks depending on where you buy them. The fun part is they try to sue for 300 dollars and upward if you damage or steal them
@@unclealslocks5472 just glue them to the boot.
Dude
fucking legend
No one seems to mention that these can also be used as a security device to prevent your vehicle from being stolen by others. Sure you can't completely prevent stuff inside the car from being stolen but you'd still have the most important part.
Unless they steal the engine.
thankfully they cant steal my lucky tire
@@frankieM_ notice the spikes in the boot, the tire is punctured
the wheel?
My bsa troop has one on our troop trailer, just id dont have the spikes and it is a different kind of boot
LPL's Mom: You need to stop spending all day inside picking locks. Go outside and get some fresh air.
LPL: Let's head outside, lock this on my car, and get to work
LPL when he goes outside and see a door: *Heavy breathing* *sweating*
"It turns out the right tools are a regular credit card, and the necronomicon."
Klaatu Varada Nn.. Necktie, Nectar, Nickle. Definitely an N-word.
"and that's how to unlock the gates of heaven, using only a credit card and some weird ass book."
Hey she bitch let’s dance! Shop smart shop s smart! Ha
You mean "The Cryptonomicon"?
Or a 12 dollar lock pick from Amazon, and a screwdriver, or the handle of a spoon, or literally any flat piece of metal.
I will always assume that any boot placed on my car was done so illegally.
I dont believe there is a legal reason.
@Bob Bobbertson Typically you'd have your car towed if it was by a legitimate entity. If law enforcement doesnt want you parked somewhere, they're not gonna boot you and prevent you from moving, they're gonna move you rather you like it or not lmao. Essentially, it'd make no sense for lawful entities to boot you, just scammers. I hope this helps. Usually I wouldnt try to explain things like this but you're a fellow weeb so I figured id be nice ;) lol
@Bob Bobbertson It's horrid...😱
@@MTFOphantom To be honest, everywhere I have been in the world, there are signs saying they will tow. I have never seen one yet that says they will boot a car.
PhantomGunshipOfficial In Chicago the city will boot you if you have 3 or more unpaid tickets, there is talk about ending this practice, but I highly doubt that will happen!
I used a cutting torch after driving 30 miles to go get the torch set. When we came back there was 2 boots on the car, one front and one rear, didnt stop Mr Torch. So scammer lost 2 of his boots too. I think we estimated that he lost 300 dollars that night. There was a waffle House across the street and the bright light of the cutting torch didnt bother anyone.
EVERYONE was likely laughing to much watching you cut it off.
Hey just so anyone knows. The door that required the lock pick only requires a pen. You can remove the innards of a Bic ball point pen and use the outer layer as a "skeleton" key for its circular key hole. Its comically easy to remove these things.
I don't think it's quite as easy as you're making out. First off, the pen trick only works with tubular locks of the right diameter, no? The one in this video appears to be significantly wider than a pen, based on the tubular lock pick. Also, after I learned about this years ago, I tried it on one of my bike chain locks, and although I got it to work once, it took a _lot_ of monkeying, and I was unable to get it to work a second time (don't remember if I tried replacing the pen, but it didn't sustain any significant damage from the picking).
Just push screwdriver in and turn the complete assembly. Easy as that.
The skeleton key has notches. A pen does not, it would just turn forever without grabbing the bolt
posting in a smart thread
AND, if you have a screw driver, im sure you could prise that little door open with it as well
I had somebody do that to me one time. Little did they know that I had a angle grinder with some cut off wheels. I cut that boot right off. Then I called the number and told the guy but I just cut the boot right off. He got pissed and said he was going to sue me I so I played into it a little bit and told him I would meet him to give him the money if he would not sue me. So he agreed I notified the police department in that town well long story short he did not get his money and he got a free ride all the way down to the city motel. Apparently this dude have been running this racket for quite some time and the police have been trying to locate him. They also search his car and found about a dozen other car boots in his trunk. I don’t think he got none of them back he probably had to start over again from scratch.
I ❤️ a happy ending.
Not all heroes wear capes
Lol he got wrecked.
A fucking legend you are
They found a dozen boots in the trunk of his car? Do you know how big a boot is or how many a dozen is?
Way to out yourself as a liar
I would have just waited till the scammer came to take my money and then I would have used the screwdriver.
I presume they set up a bogus company name, PayPal account and automated phone line/voicemail, and wait for the money to come to them.
the scammers the cops lol
"I would have used the screwdriver, Looney Tunes style." is what you should've said.😉
I like your style bugs
I agree with you. screw those scammer
Luckily, we all carry tubular lock impressioning tools around with us!
I do now. Thanks Amazon!
Just buy cordless grinder, or reciprocial saw with blade for metal.
Why does the _mere existence_ of these things absolutely _enrage_ me?!? I’ve never been any place where boots are used, much less have had one used on my car, and yet seeing these things just pisses me off!!
Fortunately, Police should be your allies in this case.
same here
Sometimes people park illegally, with no consideration for others. There have to be consequences for such antisocial actions.
@@Loosehead where I am, we have tickets and towing, and they seem to get the job done just fine. Boots are wholly counterproductive. Now the car that shouldn’t be there is _stuck_ there, and there’s no guarantee that the offender will have the means to pay up on the spot. At least with towing, the car has been moved out of the way. At least with a ticket and a court date, the offender has a chance to come up with the money and possibly defend their actions (medical emergency, lack of markings/signage, etc.).
@chris kibodeaux There =/= They're = They are
"the lock picking lawyer here and im broadcasting from prison where i found a major flaw in the jail cell locks"
Uh oh
You mean episode 919?
He did
"I found this fork and i bent it a little and now im on my way home"
Would be a cool idea for a show, sort of like Bear Grills, where he is dumped in the middle of nowhere, lock picking lawyer get dumped in a random prison (anywhere in the world) and has to pick a lot of locks to get out.
I'd love to see a destructive method on this product at some point
ruclips.net/video/b1FAfGBTWko/видео.html
@@unusefulidiothomer is amazing! lmao
Looks like you could just pry that little door open with the same screwdriver. Pretty chintzy cabinet door lock there.
Also, as always, an angle grinder would work fast and effortlessly.
Ramset! Ramset! Ramset!
Was going to ask the exact same thing, especially vs the lock hatch.
WAY back when these first came out the City of Portland (Maine) made the mistake of booting a guy's work truck. A few days later they received a box with the boot in it cut up into lots of little pieces . Made the newspapers!
LPL: "It turns out that the right tools are nothing but a screwdriver"...
me: I can do this!
LPL: "...and a tubular lock pick"
me: nope.
Just screw driver shove it under the flap and yank or use heel of foot to push against driver pops right off
Did you see how flimsy that little flap was. Bust it open.
It turns out that the right tools are nothing but a cordless angle grinder, and a little elbow grease.
that door looks about as structurally sound as a soft caramel candy. you could probably bend it
Actually you can. Note how flimsy that lock is, it's essentially same as you can see ie. closets etc. Just use screwdriver to turn that lock body open :)
Scammer: I’m holding your car for ransom
*uno reverse card*
LPL: No, I’m holding your boot for ransom
You could use a angle grinder to cut it open, that steel doesnt look thick.
There was a guy in the UK or somewhere that did that. He then locked the boot to his front gate and told the county he would unlock it for them for a few hundred bucks.
@@LobbyDaLobster What a man.
@@LobbyDaLobsterthat was "alleged" He admitted no knowledge of how it came to be on his gate. Only that he was concerned about it doing property damage and had himself put a lock on it.
@@user-ro9zf9kz1h I'd go to my cutting torch for sure, just hope I don't mess up the tire
I don't know if anyone else has said this, but my suggestion is:
If someone boots your car, you should retreat to a safe place and call the police. It would be unwise to kneel down and put all of your attention onto this object when someone is very clearly watching you.
It's far too easy to put a cheap boot onto someone's vehicle simply as a form of distraction. You are at an extreme disadvantage when fiddling with it and are vulnerable to a number of violent crimes.
Stay safe folks.
If somebody is trying to scam people with these, you likely wouldn't know it's a scammer.
If you are using an angle grinder as some others are suggesting, that could be a good self defense weapon if need be.
What sort of violent crimes are we talking? Rear end ambush? I have reason to believe the scammer probably isn't going to be the victims stepbrother...
I say undo the car jack and keep it
You should attach your own device to the car and that way they will leave you alone.
You really only need one tool fro scammers' boots:
A battery-powered angle grinder.
I love how right to the point this guy is. I’m so used to youtubers stretching out their vids that he unlocked it and I left just went “that’s it?”
"Heheheh I'm gonna boot this guy's car and make him pay me to take it off."
LockPickingLawyer: "Oh shoot, free boot."
"Illegal car booting scam"
Well, in that case the correct tool is _a fucking angle grinder._
They stuck it on my car illegally, that means they gave it to me. Not theirs anymore, I can do what I want with it.
TO THE KNEES
yeah or you pick it open and get a free boot. dumbass scammers giving you money.
But that would RUIN the boot and they couldn't use it again! YEP, that is a GOOD idea, a very GOOD IDEA! Be sure to put it in a nearby trash container because there's a fine for littering.
A demolition saw with a metal grinder blade will do the trick
If you don't have that tool, you could always use a cordless drill and drill the lock in seconds.
@captainscentsible3938 Who parks near an outlet?
@@grondhero Everything is cordless these days.
The lock is likely made of tempered steel. You might need a special bit to drill it.
A HOA near me likes to boot vehicles "in violation" and went a bit too far last summer. They have a policy that absolutely no commercial vehicles are permitted in to be kept in the HOA. Well, here is what happened when they booted a welding truck inside a guys garage.
Guy is a metal fabricator and welder that owns his own small business and his personal vehicle is his pickup that has a welding rig in the bed. His decals are magnetic so he can remove them easily when needed. He had been warned about parking in the driveway, so he keeps it in his garage. He was working in his backyard one day and had the garage open as he was going back and forth for tools. While he was around back, the patrol came by, saw the truck and that he had been warned, so they booted the truck. The truck was parked inside his garage so they entered onto private property to do this.
He saw it after they left and called the HOA management team who just said he had to pay a $400 fine to remove it. He went through the whole "trespassed to do this", but the phone jockey had none of it. His lawyer said they could fight it, but the costs would be more than the fine and unless the police came and cut it off (not likely on private property) he would have to wait. Basically pay now and fight to get the money back.
He decided to take his wife's car to the main office of the management company and go face to face. Well, that went nowhere as well and they were pretty rude about how they talked to him, which was the final straw.
He went back home and used his tools to break the boot and tossed it into his truck. He then drove back to the management company and thanks to their use of reserved parking spaces he was able to easily identify the managers car. He then welded the boot onto the car and left.
Cops supposedly were laughing as they took the report and arrested him for criminal mischief. Couldn't find out what happened to the charge, but I would take a criminal record in that instance.
The company that i work for would fire you when you were charged.....not even waiting until you are convicted.
@@12namleht , my understanding is he is/was self employed. I followed the post he made on the Nextdoor App where he recounted the story and how he was "out on bail" pending formal charges for criminal mischief and any other charges they came up with. I just checked his profile and he has no other posts except an ad for a used washer and dryer a month or so after this story. I'd like to know the final outcome, but either way it was a great read.
Maybe he would have been better off removing the lock and just tossing it in some public trash bin away from the property. If asked what happened, no response required. The manager would have been out the cost of the device.
@@ACitizenOfOurWorld , not arguing that his action wasn't the best idea for him. However, the notoriety of his action ceased booting in the immediate area, so I guess he "took one for the team" with some humor added on.
All HOAs are criminal organizations
A buddy of mine who runs a mobile repair service got booted once. Told me he just looked at it for a bit, went to his tool compartment, came out with the oxy acetylene torch and the boot turned into a puddle.
wouldn't that also attack the tire though
@@Cookiedible he used a fire blanket to protect the tire
Never mess with a welder. I was an inch away from welding all four of my neighbors doors shut on her car because if i even look at my harley she calls a noise complaint. It has stock pipes... Police even told her to stop.
@@joshp2542 at that point I'd just make it a point to be a asshole to her. Had the same thing happen with my old muscle car. So I just sat out there house and rev bombed it for a solid 2 minutes then parked it in my back yard. Cops came and I acted dumb lol
@@nerysalguero3956 most of the time your just cutting a padlock, funny enough the boot would protect the tire long enough to cut the lock off.
Imagine booting someone's car and seeing them come back and pick the lock like this and then they just put the car boot in their trunk and drive off. Like not only did your scam/prank fail but you lost the boot as well and the money you spent on it was wasted
To be fair, you'd probably get closer to figuring out what the lock picking lawyer looks like with that, though not by much.
So much effort put into scamming people that could result in more money if put into something more productive... Its like the scammers do it for the thrill
@N Fels wait, were you the boot scammer or the one who removed it?
@N Fels still what you did should be considered illegal given yoy booted someones car. I mean if thats legal they could have picked the lock and booted your car instead. So either you just admitted to a crime, you're lying, or that person should have booted your car instead given if what you did was legal then it would be legal for them to do it back
@N Fels thing is I'm pretty sure YOU don't have the legal right to do something like that. Especially considering if they got fired they could sue you for damages as someone inconveniencing you as they were even if it's against the law doesn't give you the legal right to do the same thing back. Frankly you could have (and should have) been sued
*"All that's needed is a Philips-Head Screwdriver and a mystical ornament worn by Egyptian Royalty 👑 such as King Tutankhamun or Rameses III. Don't worry. If you don't have one of those, Cleopatra's Ankle Bracelet will do just fine!"* 😅
yeah turn off your computer, your cell phone and your TV and go do something that requires physical effort and maybe you'll understand something useful.
@@zarnell you say, on a computer / cellphone
@@bacoon6499 great use of logic there.
Soyboys really do be intimidated by tools.
Don't forget to take the scammer's boot with you, it is now yours.
and sell it to the scammer
Toss it on the next cop car you see parked on the side of the street overnight to pay it forward
@@chompythebeast or: hear me out
Pick it, and leave the note and the lock to a police car
@@mangouschase isn't that exactly the same thing lol
@@tydshiin5783 yeah but the police can go after the scammer for doing that to their car
That little door looked flimsy enough to be pry open with that screw driver, making it just one tool needed.
i usually have a pry bar handy, but not a circular lock impression tool lol
That was my first thought also. I get that the lawyer is showing how to remove it without damaging it, and I'm all for the "right tool for the job" method but if someone illegally put a boot on my truck, they'd come back to find a pile of cut up scrap.
@@wcsd9577 EXACTLY..... torched, scorched, and chopped.
@@wcsd9577 it seems like something that you should take with you and dump somewhere else, but at this point i know there are tracking chips on them so there's no winning. kinda sucks. you either get fined for the ticket and the boot or you get fined for the ticket and vandalization of the boot...
@@helchin93 This was about a scammer's boot which is why I said "illegally". A scammer won't know who to send the ticket to, and even if they did you have no reason or obligation to pay a scammer a single cent. I agree though that you should take the boot with you, that way you have something to throw through their front window when you find their scam operation.
The lock pick looks like something a middle schooler would try to smoke
Imbecile
They're starting in Middle school now? Fuck me I'm old.. lol
I remember when middle schoolers would try to smoke smarties candy
Oh how the times have changed
Bladesisdead I’m in middle school and I tried to smoke a GTX 16 Series Graphics Card NVIDA I thought it was a box mod vape
@@unusedaccount7358 bet you got that high (graphics) reeaal quick
I recall hearing how the French hit back with parking authorities, ( not scammers) clamping cars. People started carrying a tube of super glue with them and would fill up the lock on any clamp they saw. When the authorities came to unlock them, they couldn't and would have to cut off their own locks, or incur even more wrath from the irate motorist, ( who hadn't actually done it, and had paid their fine). Chaos, but the French have developed protest into a fine art !
eBay: "Boot, used once. Like new." 😂😂😂
Only locked to a Sunday driver
Awesome. I was thinking of putting it on another car. Hey I can remove that for half the money.
Maybe he just return the damn thing and ask for a refund
Haha!!😂
'lost the key' 😂
I had my semi booted once making a delivery, I used my bolt cutters and a crow bar and removed it . Never heard a word from the towing company as they put it on while I was making a legit delivery.
I take it that your nose was in the street?
fail
Same here I had my semi booted in Atlanta Georgia I was running out of hours and didn’t have enough time to find parking due to traffic on the loop there..pulled up to a strip club where I saw other trucks found the owner he ran my debit card and handed me a sticker saying (parking paid )for my window on a very small piece of paper . I called family there went and crashed for the night to return to some young buck sitting outside trying to look tough in camp pants and black t shirt in military boots he says is this your truck I say it sure ain’t yours take off the boot he said your parked illegally I opened the door handed him the sticker he instantly felt stupid and said I didn’t see that I said no shit buddy!!
@@PANZERFAUST90, yes... whoever didn't pull out of your mother, did fail.
Lock: *exists*
LockpickingLawyer: Im about to end this man's whole career
In as calmly manner as his voice
"I'm not a locksmith"
Lucky like number
I wonder where this kind of comments started.
But it's an overused joke that never was funny and is just annoying to see in every comment section.
@@DarkSim64 translation: "Waaah! WAAAAAH!!"
The apartments I recently moved into have a business scheme with a no-name towing company that goes around booting people's cars at night for minor infractions like out of date tags. Each night you can walk around and see a bunch of cars booted, and then of course my own car ended up booted when the registration was one day expired. They're forcing tenants to pay $75 to have access to their vehicles again. Going to grab myself some tools to remove these rather than be extorted to be able to use my own personal property.