Found under 16 year old son's bed.

[u/Fantastic-Weirdo]

Wonder if anyone has clear answer what this might be for. Im guessing fir breaking into something. Cars maybe?

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[u/Jabathewhut]

Yeah, that kids breaking into cars.

[u/RegrettableBiscuit → u/Jabathewhut]

Or just curious about how to break into cars. As a kid I had a whole lockpicking collection because it's interesting and fun to learn and you can impress other kids. I never stole anything. 

[u/IHaveNeverBeenOk → u/RegrettableBiscuit]

Grew up in the 90s and 00s, but I was super into hacking and especially its lesser known brother, phreaking. Built blue boxes, beige boxes, and red boxes. Technically I broke the law, but I never actually committed any "real crime." Even if I made an illegitimate phone call, it was usually just to call a bud from a payphone and be like "I did this for free, lol." Pay phones were well on their way out by my day, and the only phone I ever tapped with the beige box was our own house. All a long way to say: I get it.

My concern here though, is even if homeboy is just fucking around, people get shot over vehicles. The law takes it pretty seriously too. Definitely a conversation worth having with the kiddo.

[u/plasma2002 → u/IHaveNeverBeenOk]

Ah, a fellow reader of the cookbook!

[u/FreqPhreak → u/plasma2002]

this guy cooks 🤌

[u/Raikou3000 → u/plasma2002]

New achievement! Car jacker! Reward… the car, you just get the car, now run!

[u/Oldekline → u/Raikou3000]

Really Carl, You were never good at GTA.

[u/Alternative_Tie_6575 → u/IHaveNeverBeenOk]

Im a tech nerd too! I built all the boxes too. No fun prank calling Japan. MOSHI moshi?! Ironically my first duty station, was Japan. I could never change grades in the school computer but I figured out how to stop the auto dialer from calling your house, if you cut class. So naturally I offered to sell days off to other students. Brilliant right? ...er NO! FBI said i hacked the State attendance computer, got expelled, sent to aN Adult ( Bad Kids School ) AND Graduated out the back door, after setting up their computer! I was just a nerdy kid, I didn't even own a computer at home. FBI was satisfied to learn of my IMMEDIATE enlistment in the Navy. Fun kids stuff. Can't imagine how they would prosecute a tech nerd these days.

[u/JinFuu → u/Alternative_Tie_6575]

I have a much less complex story for my 'hacking'. I was in Middle School, the school had nothing protecting anyone's files so I was just able to look around at anything, even found someone's porn stash.

Anyway, I was an idiot, let a teacher see me doing it. Being an idiot kid fessed up immediately. Teacher still lied on my referral and said she saw me delete files, stupid woman. Got a week of ISS and wasn't allowed access to a computer with access to the rest of the computers for the rest of the year. So my poor BCIS teacher had to do a whole separate thing for me.

Funniest thing was my parents were annoyed I did it but weren't mad at me. They were mad at the school for

1. Having a computer system so easy to hack

2. Having a cop in the principal's office when I was questioned, alone.

[u/ogresound1987 → u/JinFuu]

I mean.... If there's no protection for any of the files, it wasn't hacking. It was just browsing.

[u/JinFuu → u/ogresound1987]

That was my...I think I was 12...argument, and my parents agreed with me.

But the school took the "Access files/things I shouldn't have been accessing" definition of 'hacking'.

[u/Nefandous_Jewel → u/JinFuu]

Good parents!

[u/JinFuu → u/Nefandous_Jewel]

Yeah a couple of times I got in trouble over the years, big time, they got mad/annoyed at me, but then the 'Authorities' did something worse.

One time I got kicked from a summer program in England (nothing legitimately serious, but violated some program rules/pissed wrong people off.), and since I had just turned 18, the program decided they had no obligation to make sure I safely got back to the States because 'legal adult'.

Boy, did that cause issues. Pissed off both my parents and my school. My school refused to do business with that summer program ever again.

[u/MonitorOk6818 → u/Alternative_Tie_6575]

Did the Navy at least give you a cozy job for being smart? It would suck if they had you only cleaning toilets during your service haha

[u/Alternative_Tie_6575 → u/MonitorOk6818]

I as a CTO Crypto tech. Mostly computers and radios. In a year I went from under Federal investigation amd expelled to Sailor of the month on CV 41 Uss Midway Yokuska Japan. I loved it. I was even recommended nominated to go to Annapolis but got beat out by a cook. In retaliation I missed Ship Movement in Austrailia. FUN TIMES, Semi Retired ARMY longer story, Now.

[u/MonitorOk6818 → u/Alternative_Tie_6575]

Thank you for your service! Sounds better than most MOS! I was heavy equipment operator/ carpenter/mason in the Army, I got out when I lost my hearing haha I envied the cooks, they got to stay in a warm kitchen while we suffered in the snow or rain.

[u/primosmatadores → u/IHaveNeverBeenOk]

[u/SweetMaam → u/IHaveNeverBeenOk]

Captain Crunch cereal had a toy whistle that could get free pay phone calls. I had one but never got to use it, my mom threw it away. The cereal whistle was capable of emitting a perfect 2600 Hz tone which allowed someone to hack the phone network.

[u/ksw06790 → u/SweetMaam]

I have one of these I got it from a tag sale for 50 cents ( this was only 5-6 years ago)
It’s in my office next to my Oscar Meyer weinermobile whistle

[u/Gatecrasher3 → u/IHaveNeverBeenOk]

What was the hack back when pay phones still used specific different sounding tones in order to direct calls? Something about finding a toy whistle in a childrens serial box that produced the exact tone needed to unlock options only phone technicians were supposed to have access to.

[u/Maple-Sizzurp → u/Gatecrasher3]

Capn crunch whistle or 2600 tone (red box) there was other boxes too but a red box was the one

[u/XMRoot → u/Gatecrasher3]

2600hz via the Cap’n Crunch Bo’sun whistle. It made you the operator. There were all sorts of different frequency tones but that was a big one. That phreaking era was more in the 70s and 80s. Unless you lived in Bumfuck Nowhere those analog phone systems had mostly gone digital by the 90s.

[u/BendersDafodil → u/RegrettableBiscuit]

[u/imakemyownroux → u/BendersDafodil]

This is going to ruin the tour.

[u/JackBivouac → u/imakemyownroux]

What tour?

[u/DD-1992 → u/JackBivouac]

The world tour

[u/Zestyclose-Store7125 → u/DD-1992]

Who are you again?

[u/imightbeadud → u/Zestyclose-Store7125]

"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."

[u/ItsmrChewy → u/imightbeadud]

"Filthy rats! All of you!"

[u/ElderSkelder → u/ItsmrChewy]

“Take that, ya filthy animals!”

[u/Pipe_Memes → u/Zestyclose-Store7125]

I’m what’s known in showbiz as a triple threat. It’s quite complicated.

[u/CampAstoria → u/Pipe_Memes]

"I was in the mickey mouse club in 1993...and a world famous pop band in 2001. ...?"

cop born in 2003: .....alrighty... do you have any family we can call

[u/denfjordi → u/Pipe_Memes]

Singer, tapdancer, cobbler — a lethal combo

[u/Pipe_Memes → u/denfjordi]

A tap dancer who can fix his own tap shoes? That is impressive.

[u/Tyler-LR → u/JackBivouac]

If I’m correct it’s a joke referencing what Justin Timberlake said when he got pulled over while drunk driving.

[u/BrenttheGent → u/Tyler-LR]

"what tour" is part of the reference.

[u/JackBivouac → u/Tyler-LR]

Correct

reference.

[u/Klutzy-Sprinkles-958 → u/JackBivouac]

What reference

[u/postmodern_werewolf → u/Klutzy-Sprinkles-958]

The world reference

[u/Ill_Bother2609 → u/BendersDafodil]

[u/ayesmitty → u/BendersDafodil]

I was the same way because of a book I read, Artemis Fowl maybe?? Although I did steal a pick from biology class to help build my kit. So JT is justified.

[u/Mescallan → u/[deleted]]

My mom found a printed copy of the anarchists cookbook and a full set of bumping keys under my bed. I was a quiet well behaved kid and just, separately, curious about them. She thought I had some alter ego lol.

[u/Kooky-Somewhere-1791 → u/Mescallan]

Back in the days of dial up the phone company called my dad and said someone was looking at the jolly rogers anarchist cookbook and ask if he knew. He said yes and he copied what he had viewed lmao

[u/KillaChinchilla1010 → u/Mescallan]

We made the match tennis ball bomb as kids from the anarchist cookbook. It worked!

We cut a bunch of the tips of strike anywhere matches. Cut a slit in a tennis ball and loaded them into it, taped it closed, and threw that bad boy in the middle of the street. Straight fireball. It was awesome.

[u/PRC_Spy → u/[deleted]]

At least he ain’t trying to make making explosives like I wanted to do did.

ANFO is too easy if you live near a farm with a careless farmer.

[u/_jackhoffman_ → u/PRC_Spy]

We made napalm and bombs using black powder and/or gunpowder sourced from shotgun shells, model rocket motors, fireworks, etc. The good old days when we just had to be home before dark.

[u/PickleInDaButt → u/PRC_Spy]

Anarchist’s Cookbook was like the coolest thing ever to find

[u/Master_Citron_4475 → u/PickleInDaButt]

O the good ol days, pre 2005

[u/Beneficial_Reserve10 → u/Master_Citron_4475]

You mean I can't order a copy?

[u/Master_Citron_4475 → u/Beneficial_Reserve10]

Im sure it's still around somewhere, jus be careful googling that shit lmao

[u/turnsout_im_a_potato → u/[deleted]]

I just wanted to make a big firework by using all the dud fireworks from the 4th of july. Id break em open and empty the dust into a pog tube. I did this for 4 consecutive summers and then when i was 13 cops were in my house for my sister and he noticed a "pipe bomb" with a wick coming out the lid...

[u/fritz_76 → u/[deleted]]

i met a guy in college who had a hobby of making explosives, he surprised me with it one day by say "hey wanna see my scar?" and then lifting his shirt to show an awful shrapnel scar across his stomach. learning someone makes bombs as a hobby is a pretty quick way to scare people away

[u/Kooky-Somewhere-1791 → u/[deleted]]

I may or may not be scared for life from cannon fuse and a 1 pound can of pyrodex. If may or may not have told the e.r. doctor at the hospital what may or may not had happened they just said your a lucky 12 year old. Not cops called back in 85 if you would have been playing army and may or may not had built a bomb. Boys being boys back then

[u/FriskyDingoOMG → u/[deleted]]

Gasoline, styrofoam, and fire is fun to mess with.

[u/Kooky-Somewhere-1791 → u/FriskyDingoOMG]

Napalm 😎

[u/Aclevername1000 → u/[deleted]]

I knew a kid who did that. Swat team fucked his parents house up and a good amount of years of his life up.

[u/Kerbidiah → u/Aclevername1000]

Free the chemists! Our whole rocket program was started by a guy that made explosives in his yard for fun

[u/Saul_T_Bitch → u/RegrettableBiscuit]

I’m 53. And I still love fucking around with my pickset.

[u/redditflyonthewall → u/Saul_T_Bitch]

I took the Belsaw locksmithing mail order course back in the '70s. For the same reason. It was just fun to do. Unfortunately my lock picks were stolen in the '90s..

[u/Blood_gate → u/redditflyonthewall]

Motherfucking irony.

[u/lupulinhog → u/Saul_T_Bitch]

Still waiting for Danny ocean to call about one last job

[u/Various-Salt-7738 → u/RegrettableBiscuit]

I like lock picking and I've dabbled a bit in safecracking

I learned these things because I was curious how my DND characters could manipulate a lock without its key-- I also don't steal anything except maybe hotel shampoo bottles

It's just a dumb hobby buts it's come in handy a few times where I have legally and with permission from the owner helped friends into their home or vehicle

[u/noFOXgivenFURreal → u/Various-Salt-7738]

Dumb? I mean, could come in INCREDIBLY HANDY in certain (otherwise terrible) situations. I’d say a latent skill would describe it better.

[u/Various-Salt-7738 → u/noFOXgivenFURreal]

I also like batman which convinced me to train myself to pick and/or shim the common handcuffs in my country-- I just hope I don't end up in Russian cuffs bc idk what to do there

That's come in handy when I lose the key

[u/Glum-Try-8181 → u/Various-Salt-7738]

maybe you should become a physical pentester, pays a fuckload

[u/Various-Salt-7738 → u/Glum-Try-8181]

That's like my dream job but I have no idea how people get started in that kind of thing

If I had permission to try and macgyver my way in different buildings every day on the job site would be a a giant puzzle I get to crack

[u/Glum-Try-8181 → u/Various-Salt-7738]

go to hacker conventions and talk to people, they'll know - or locksmiths

[u/False_Snow7754 → u/Various-Salt-7738]

This is a Master Lock 4000, it can be opened with a Master Lock 4000.

[u/OmenVi → u/RegrettableBiscuit]

My middle boy @12 got one.
Was only interested in how it all works.
Had a neighbor come by asking me to break the glass by her front door because she’d locked herself out.
He helped her get in, and she gave him $20 and brought by a gift basket.
He’s a good kid. Would never even consider breaking into someone’s stuff.
I believe you.

[u/ivyinkwell → u/RegrettableBiscuit]

I think it's very nice of you to offer the benefit of the doubt for the more innocent possible reason. I do also think his parents would still need to have a serious conversation about it though. Curiosity is great, but even practicing on mom's car or his own in their driveway could end up in a negative altercation with police or community members with good intentions of stopping what looks like a crime. I'd have to talk to my teen pretty sternly about practicing, pretending, or examining how to commit crimes with homemade crime-committing tools. If it's a hobby, he can get some tools that don't make him look like a crackhead looking to steal the change out of cupholders.

[u/CarlMasterC → u/RegrettableBiscuit]

[u/jahozer1 → u/RegrettableBiscuit]

I dont like cocaine. I just like the way it smells.

[u/BearDick → u/jahozer1]

[u/John_Duax → u/RegrettableBiscuit]

One time in a job there was a locked door in the building and from being a bored child I knew how to jimmy locks. I did so and got very concerned looks.

[u/No-Fox2087 → u/John_Duax]

My explanation for my lock picking abilities is always “I’m from Newark.”

[u/FunBobbyMarley → u/No-Fox2087]

Someone in our suburban Philly neighborhood just had her new BMW stolen out of the garage (without the key) and it was “located” in Newark, but still not recovered. That was 3 weeks ago. I’m assuming it’s enjoying the Middle East by now.

[u/Overall_Inspector185 → u/John_Duax]

Same 😭 I got really good with a rake pick

[u/StillStaringAtTheSky → u/John_Duax]

OMG this, it's so second nature to me that I accidentally did it at work. Coworker forgot their drawer key- I popped it in a few seconds with a paperclip. One of those 'My First Diary' kind of cheapo locks. Definitely got looks from that.

[u/Aegis_Aurelius → u/RegrettableBiscuit]

I own lockpicks because im curious about locksmithing stuff, and its a neat party trick to open a padlock. Actually lost my house keys and picked my way in one time.

[u/BADoVLAD → u/Aegis_Aurelius]

Everyone knows to open this Masterlock you just need to use this Masterlock.

[u/coaster_geek → u/Aegis_Aurelius]

It is a skill that opens a lot of doors

[u/pat34us → u/RegrettableBiscuit]

[u/wcopela0 → u/RegrettableBiscuit]

I will say, as an adult, I do have a lock picking kit I bought just to learn how to pick locks if need be. Never used it for anything illegal….(ok I did pick the lock of my neighbor’s house like 18 years ago. It was vacant rental. Wanted to test my skills on a Schlage deadbolt)

[u/DetectiveMotts → u/RegrettableBiscuit]

Nah look at all that hot sauce. This kid def likes to live dangerously. Tbh, he probably boosting cars to flip for hot sauce.

[u/Nordeast24 → u/RegrettableBiscuit]

Lol hate to admit it, but me and the fellas went car hopping back in the day. Fun fact, a lot of heavy equipment operators leave their key right in the ignition on job sites and in the industrials. We may or may not have played around a little bit 😂 oh well, life goes on and no damage was done. Kids do kid stuff. You grow up and laugh about it around a bonfire.

[u/RinkinBass → u/RegrettableBiscuit]

Are you also strangely proficient at throwing weapons?

[u/Minimum-Web-6902 → u/Jabathewhut]

Or locks themselves out their OWN CAR , I made one of these in a Walmart parking lot when I locked my keys inside my car , 150$ for an unlock as a teen? I’ll go buy a hanger and some tape and a soda can. 10$ and some luck and I’m in

[u/MaleficentSpider_404 → u/Minimum-Web-6902]

My husband used to lock himself out of his own car so often that I bought him a break in kit.  At the time, it was like $20 on Amazon.  Not exactly sure how legal it was to own, but it was worth it.

My husband's most infamous keys locked in the car moment:

I dont know how the hell a person would drop their keys right when they shut the car door, but he sure did it.

[u/icedmatchaman → u/MaleficentSpider_404]

Crime scene photo vibes.

[u/ReginaldDwight → u/MaleficentSpider_404]

It's just dangling there...taunting him.

[u/DezzaJay → u/MaleficentSpider_404]

Just hanging there mugging you right off and you know full well, the moment you try to get those with anything, that they’re just going to drop right down between the seat and door.

[u/SpongeBob_GodPants → u/MaleficentSpider_404]

But how?

[u/gigastack → u/MaleficentSpider_404]

That's actually incredible.

[u/CalendarThis6580 → u/Jabathewhut]

Sigh….i was hoping he was trying to communicate with aliens or trying to find water.

[u/Renoruke → u/Jabathewhut]

💯

[u/Slave_to_dog → u/Jabathewhut]

Not necessarily. I tried a ton of different ways to unlock cars as a kid, mostly because I thought it was cool. I never actually broke into a car.

[u/TuxedoWrangler → u/Slave_to_dog]

Turns out a size large manual blood pressure cuff and a rubber coated bendable wire are the best tools to pop a door, short of just purchasing a halligan.

[u/CptMisterNibbles → u/TuxedoWrangler]

Same idea but now airshims are more readily available at every hardware store

[u/MandatorySaxSolo → u/Slave_to_dog]

I had a dope lock pick set as a kid. The only time I committed a crime was to show off and get friends into a middle school volleyball game without paying

[u/Ok-Juggernaut-353 → u/Slave_to_dog]

I had a coworker give me an actual slim-jim that I kept in the back of my truck, but it got stolen.

[u/BadgerTamer → u/Ok-Juggernaut-353]

Oh the irony

[u/Fit_Active3888]

That looks like a tool to unlock car doors from the outside

Edit: obviously made by someone who does not know what they are doing. If they did, they would know a bent coat hanger wire is all they need.

[u/SirMemesworthTheDank → u/Fit_Active3888]

[u/raisedbytides → u/SirMemesworthTheDank]

[u/Mountain_Example_856 → u/raisedbytides]

If you two aren’t the same person I find this utterly hilarious

[u/raisedbytides → u/Mountain_Example_856]

im online quite a bit, but not "two reddit accounts" online lol.

[u/SeparateYak4989 → u/raisedbytides]

or am i?

[u/TwistIntelligent5163 → u/SeparateYak4989]

Or are we? I mean I or us? I’m confused now…. Which account am I on again?

[u/RpMcG → u/SirMemesworthTheDank]

[u/Dragonborn9708 → u/RpMcG]

Okay but

[u/RpMcG → u/Dragonborn9708]

[u/GBFZeta → u/RpMcG]

[u/Specialist-Work-8975 → u/RpMcG]

[u/Sgt_Larsson → u/Dragonborn9708]

[u/Rmartin217 → u/Dragonborn9708]

[u/RobertRossBoss → u/SirMemesworthTheDank]

This guys son would

[u/br3dj → u/SirMemesworthTheDank]

[u/inot72 → u/br3dj]

[u/kaosbuffer → u/SirMemesworthTheDank]

You wouldn't defecate in a police mans hat!

[u/almostclassy_creator → u/kaosbuffer]

IT crowd in the wild

[u/RoseyDove323 → u/kaosbuffer]

After stealing it from his grieving widow

[u/NewtonsOyster → u/SirMemesworthTheDank]

But a font is fair game. Hilarious that the font used in this campaign was 'stolen.'

[u/Equivalent-Act2263 → u/SirMemesworthTheDank]

But I would download one for sure

[u/Drift_Life → u/SirMemesworthTheDank]

[u/NextOfHisName → u/SirMemesworthTheDank]

Is he trying to download a car?

[u/Fit_Active3888 → u/SirMemesworthTheDank]

Just what's in the car

[u/foxguy2021 → u/Fit_Active3888]

We had an extra room in our college dorm section that no one lived in. We built a similar contraption to unlock the door. You slid it under, lift it up right, swing it a bit until it hits the door handle and once you feel like you latched on you yank your end up and it pulled the door handle down.

[u/rupert0331 → u/foxguy2021]

Solved! Sons a criminal.

[u/SilentBang9 → u/Fit_Active3888]

Could it also be used to unlock car doors from the inside?

[u/rupert0331 → u/SilentBang9]

Or to lock car doors on the outside from the inside?

[u/CHR0NlC → u/rupert0331]

Lock the door on the inside from the outside possibly?

[u/rupert0331 → u/CHR0NlC]

[u/ghIj_qet_jaghmeyjaj → u/SilentBang9]

Maybe

[u/MikeisET → u/SilentBang9]

Could also be used to unlock a fetus

[u/theGMd20 → u/Fit_Active3888]

Are they in New England? Is the son a Kia Boy?

[u/Remarkable-Rub-7344 → u/Fit_Active3888]

I'm skeptical of ut actually working well but the cut out on the cardboard bit looks quite similar to the hook on a real slim jim

[u/Fit_Active3888 → u/Remarkable-Rub-7344]

Looks like they cut up some bank cards, so would be rigid enough for most situation.

[u/Inside-Judgment-725 → u/[deleted]]

[u/be4u4get → u/Inside-Judgment-725]

Be quick before he disappears like a fart in the wind

[u/MIKESOLO666 → u/[deleted]]

[u/joka2696 → u/[deleted]]

If dad doesn't, then the guards will.

[u/Butsenkaatz]

I think he might've worked out how to get back into your home without you needing to unlock it for him

[u/s_s_n_e_g → u/Butsenkaatz]

Or any home.

[u/Krinks1 → u/s_s_n_e_g]

Or your stash of vintage porn.

[u/TheCalicoCrab → u/Krinks1]

Or anyone's stash of vintage porn.

[u/Grouchy_Bit_1970]

You have a thief on your hands.

[u/LFOME → u/Grouchy_Bit_1970]

A felon in the making!

[u/Beginning_End_361]

It that were me at 16, it would have been my TV antenna.

[u/PhilosopherAny513]

That is a home made slim jim . Bro must me getting into locked cars . Look up slim jim tool on google to see what i mean.

[u/OrneryAttorney7508 → u/PhilosopherAny513]

[u/AnyDamnThingWillDo]

Hes no mastermind hiding that under his bed whe he could make another one in 5 minutes. A lot of orange jumpsuits in his future.

[u/Solaries3 → u/AnyDamnThingWillDo]

Fortunately, most criminals aren't the brightest.

[u/Real_Firefighter3223 → u/Solaries3]

But their jumpsuits are!

[u/pegslitnin]

Make shift slim Jim

[u/TheDixonCider420420]

See that new Porsche you didn't purchase parked in your driveway?

[u/YeezyTaughtMeHRLaw → u/TheDixonCider420420]

Is that your car out front, Larry? 

[u/ObviouslyRealPerson]

Your kid's larping Gone in 60 Seconds

[u/darkklown]

Spare car keys, he's offering a public service for people who've locked themselves out and need him to drive the car to the country for a bonfire.

[u/DoctorMedieval → u/darkklown]

GTA VII confirmed!

[u/jankyz]

Everyday on this sub im so happy I had parents that respected my privacy but I also wasn't breaking into cars it was just some weed under my bed

[u/kharlos → u/jankyz]

Redditors acting as if breaking and entering is just a "kids will be kids" moment, and we just need to respect their privacy.

As their parent, it is literally their job to try and raise their kids to the best of their ability, and that includes trying to guide them when they're committing felonies.

[u/Anunnaki2522 → u/kharlos]

I have to believe the majority of the comments that go oh its nothing or parents shouldn't be snooping or you shouldnt be going thru your kids stuff are children themselves. Otherwise it is just insane lol

[u/Khristafer → u/Anunnaki2522]

There's middle ground. If you've raised a miscreant, by all means, less privacy sounds reasonable. If your kid is fairly normal, I think it's healthy to let them explore, make mistakes, and have a soft place to land when they need help.

It's always confused me when people forget what being younger was like.

[u/Midnight-Bake → u/kharlos]

trying to guide them when they're committing felonies.

Instructions unclear and me and my kid have 150,000 dollars of uncut rubies in our basement now.

[u/No_Necessary8865 → u/Midnight-Bake]

Uncut rubies are currently going for 847gp, I’ll buy the stack off of you at %20 off. 101.6M gp is my final offer. I can also trim your kids armor too.

[u/Emotional_Metal_4286 → u/kharlos]

Exactly. My aunt respected my cousin's privacy and he ruined his life with drugs. Idk it's better to nip things in the bud at times.

[u/AgilePoet146 → u/jankyz]

Dude like 18 years ago when I was 16 my mom asked me to pull up this home work assignment that was due. I was addicted to porn at the time and miss clicked and opened an image of a pornstar. She had like bolt on tits, mainstream pornstar.

My mom was like " who's this some girl from your school?" I was like yeah I wish, wtf mom.

Idk why your comment reminded me of that

[u/FloppieTheBanjoClown → u/jankyz]

HOPEFULLY this kind of in-depth search is because of other signs of problems.

Or the kid just wouldn't clean his room. I went through my son's room once because he wouldn't, and it was on the verge of being a health hazard.

[u/mothandravenstudio → u/jankyz]

I dunno. When I was growing up, weed was a felony. So prowling cars was same tier as weed. Neither would be good at all if parents found out.

[u/Frequent_Opportunist → u/jankyz]

My dad dropped a couple gram coke bags on the floor while pulling out cash for my lunch before. I scooped them up and hid them in my room under where I hid my pack of cigarettes. When I woke up the coke was gone but the smokes were still there lol.

[u/alphagusta → u/Frequent_Opportunist]

That was a bribe for "don't fucking say anything please"

[u/SolarChargedLight]

Improvised slim jim. Time to have a talk!

[u/Darkseid210]

Seen a familiar method used to break into those Amazon pickup stations lockers

[u/ladybirdsluck → u/[deleted]]

[u/Shoehorse13 → u/[deleted]]

Kid discovered a career opportunity in a changing environment. He's going places!

[u/Likeaglove93 → u/Shoehorse13]

[u/ArticleAutomatic8906]

Former cop here. If your kid gets caught with it, he's going to catch a separate felony charge for "possessing burglarious tools" (your state laws may vary) Just FYI. Talk to them tonight. Warn them with compassion in your heart.

[u/Constant_Worth_8920 → u/ArticleAutomatic8906]

Burglarious???? That's burglorious!!!!

[u/Vinegarreth → u/Constant_Worth_8920]

Burglamorous!

[u/_Vangal → u/ArticleAutomatic8906]

Depending on state they may need to prove intent to charge.

I have about 50 lock picking sets 1000 lbs of locks and other entry tools. I dont walk around with them but I could. I teach others and physical security is part of my career path but I mentor plenty of people getting i to the hobby of locksport. None of them are breaking into things or doing other things to get arrested.

This could be a matter of he or someone else locked their keys out of there car and he youtubed a solution. Or it could be what other people said either way its worth a chat.

[u/Revolutionary_Gap150]

Confirmed this is a lock bypass device. It's pretty rudimentary so tough to tell what type of lock they are targeting

[u/Best_Poetry_5722]

He's either fishing or slim jim-ing

[u/DistinctAd3222]

Ay your kid is fucking criminal

Those are tools for busting into Amazon lockers and similar stuff. Hope he doesn't end up catching a toe tag or DOC # eventually.

[u/Puzzleheaded-Art1873 → u/DistinctAd3222]

Ironically, you can buy one from Amazon.

[u/awrcja → u/Puzzleheaded-Art1873]

[u/PlungerMouse → u/Puzzleheaded-Art1873]

I’m not at all interested in opening one. But would like to see the listing for lols.

[u/IL0V3H4T3]

[u/PaidAgitator]

Yeah. That's for breaking into cars with.

[u/scubaorbit]

Open up a locked car door.

[u/TheDixonCider420420]

In all seriousness, if this was my kid, I'd put it back where I found it. Wait for a day or so and then pretend to accidentally lock your keys in the car when your son is home.

Act like you're trying to figure a way into the car without calling a locksmith. Then see if your son offers to help.

If he offers to help, maybe he just made it to get into a friend's car who legit locked his keys out or something.

If he doesn't offer to help, he's hiding something.

Good luck!

[u/Low_External_6860 → u/TheDixonCider420420]

I like this response above all the rest. I hope OP read this one.

[u/AggressiveMachine895 → u/TheDixonCider420420]

Great advice. I had one too because I was forgetful but wasn’t a criminal.

[u/Cleffah]

Your son is breaking into cars.

[u/JakeyG14]

Can we please ban the shit jokes? FFS it's unbearable.

[u/Piccoroz → u/JakeyG14]

The jokes will continue until the AI bubble bursts.