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"
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.
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.
@@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.
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 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
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!
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.
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 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.
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.
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!
@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.
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
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.
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!
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.
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 !
@@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.
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.
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 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.’
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 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.
@@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
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 !
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.
*"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.
Remember to keep the car boot, in case it's the property of the city/state. You can always say it was not locked properly, and I kept the boot to return. Pay parking ticket.
A "tubular lock impressioning tool"? Oh, yeah, there is one in my vehicle's console, along with the screwdriver and an adjustable wrench. I always carry all the basic tools, everywhere I go. ;-)
Well John, ur gonna laugh: My gf and I Both have very old cars, hers with 335,000mi and mine 225,000... mines 28yrs old and a daily driver so believe it or not, I Do carry tools becuz Ive been stranded b4 and those tools have enabled me to fix the cars on the spot..but yeah, most people dont carry anything at all though they have new cars they can trust.
@@skip741x3 I think what he was saying its: a "tubular lock impressioning tool" is not really part of the BASIC kit that people usually have in their car... But maybe Im wrong ;) heheh
“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?
@@spencerreiser7765 There is one he at the moment can't pick: Bowley. In theory there isn't such lock but in practice there is one he couldn't pick so far.
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.
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.
I just removed a boot back in September 2023. I did it with bolt cutters. Couldn't cut off the lock so I cut off the metal holding the lock in place, removed the lock that I'd already busted up, and then the pin holding the boot in place.. Took about an hour, but now I could do it in less than 10 minutes. A scam tow company did this to me at my son's apartment complex even though I was parked where told by the apartment complex and entering the codes , etc. that are requested. Couldn't contact them on a Sunday. Only option was to cut or pay via credit card via scanning their code on my phone. Got a couple of letters from a group of crap lawyers. Responded and threatened to sue them in small claims court and have not heard back since. Their pattern of abuse was obvious after looking at reviews of Capital Towing in Dallas, TX.
"illegal booting operation" step 1 > verify legitimacy of boot... call police if necessary step 2 > retrieve angle grinder, glass chalk... cut boot, and write "SMILE, YOU'RE ON CAMERA" on the adjacent window... bonus if you actually have a camera aimed there step 3 > leave broken boot, and a "BILL" for the cost of one cutting blade next to the FORMERLY BOOTED tire. when they show up, call the cops just in case they vandalize your car/house.
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 bought this exact model for my camper. It's not meant to stop someone from taking it off who is committed. It's more if a visual deterrent. Plus you dont need the first tool. You can simply pry that little door open with the same screw driver.
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.
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.
One idea that has yet to be presented is what crooks used to use on steering wheel locks. They would spray a can of freon or other refrigerant onto the metal, whack it with a hammer and be gone in a flash. Cheap metal is easily defeated. The old adage of "Build a better mouse trap and I will build a better mouse!" fully applies here. LOL
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.
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. 😊
@@FJB_TheBigGuy 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.
I think my battery drill would take the head off one of the pins holding the whole thing together pretty easily. I am fine with destructive picking when it is not my lock.
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.
@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 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.
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.
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.
Now, about that AD you got us watching BEFORE the video. I used to always watch Dr. Who ! ... LOVED it! . I myself loved the 4 th Doc. There have always been peoples faves , some even choose the NEW Doctor from the newest version. My ONLY regret is that Disneys gonna touch it , & that ruins it for ALL of US ! how truly SAD. i liked the spot until i saw the 'Disney' logo , then i saw it was DOCTOR WHO .... ! ... ? .... man , that was ONE hell of a LET DOWN : (
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.
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 ..... "
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 In order to arrest someone, police must have evidence that the person actually committed the offense. Without video or eyewitness testimony, there is no evidence of what person actually did it.
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 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
A car rental agency wrongfully booted a rental car in my driveway. Never knew why they did it or if they had the right car or not. So a quick call to a friend brought a floor jack and a flatbed ended up with the car and the boot in his garage. Despite over a dozen letters from lawyers and numerous phone calls they never got their boot. About a year (yes ONE YEAR) their rental car was found at the bottom of a creek. Moral - don't buy used cars from rental companies (they might be waterlogged) and mess with someone your own size.
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.
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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.”
**Tap cage and it opens magically**
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.
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.
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"
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
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
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?
And remember kids; those boots are heavy and scrap metal merchants pay by weight.
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
“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..."
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
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
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
"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.
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!
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.
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.
You can break them too, dunno bout walking around with broken handcuffs on you tho
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 czcams.com/video/1jSHwaOR_eo/video.html
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...
@JD812 why so mean though
Call from a payphone?
@@flapjackboy When is the last time you've seen a payphone? I don't think I've seen one since the 90s
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.
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.
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.
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
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 )
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!
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
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 !
"...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.
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. :'-(
This is why I always have battery powered angle grinder on my little toolbox. Universal lock picking tool 😊
And a battery powered sawzall
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
"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
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
no shiiii
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.
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.
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.
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
🤣😂🤣😂
😂
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 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.
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
“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
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 !
You really only need one tool fro scammers' boots:
A battery-powered angle grinder.
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
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
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.
*"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.
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
@@jdeaco6036 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?
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.
Remember to keep the car boot, in case it's the property of the city/state. You can always say it was not locked properly, and I kept the boot to return. Pay parking ticket.
why would you return the boot, you throw it away and say "never saw a boot, don't know what your talking about".
A "tubular lock impressioning tool"? Oh, yeah, there is one in my vehicle's console, along with the screwdriver and an adjustable wrench. I always carry all the basic tools, everywhere I go. ;-)
Well John, ur gonna laugh: My gf and I Both have very old cars, hers with 335,000mi and mine 225,000... mines 28yrs old and a daily driver so believe it or not, I Do carry tools becuz Ive been stranded b4 and those tools have enabled me to fix the cars on the spot..but yeah, most people dont carry anything at all though they have new cars they can trust.
@@skip741x3 I think what he was saying its: a "tubular lock impressioning tool" is not really part of the BASIC kit that people usually have in their car...
But maybe Im wrong ;) heheh
"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.
“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?
Imagine this is the one lock that LPL can't pick, and he put it on his car just to realise he can't pick it
I mean presumably it came with the key as well when he ordered it.
@@CovalentNetworkSolid joke
There is no lock LPL can't pick.
@@spencerreiser7765 There is one he at the moment can't pick: Bowley. In theory there isn't such lock but in practice there is one he couldn't pick so far.
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.
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
I just removed a boot back in September 2023. I did it with bolt cutters. Couldn't cut off the lock so I cut off the metal holding the lock in place, removed the lock that I'd already busted up, and then the pin holding the boot in place.. Took about an hour, but now I could do it in less than 10 minutes. A scam tow company did this to me at my son's apartment complex even though I was parked where told by the apartment complex and entering the codes , etc. that are requested. Couldn't contact them on a Sunday. Only option was to cut or pay via credit card via scanning their code on my phone. Got a couple of letters from a group of crap lawyers. Responded and threatened to sue them in small claims court and have not heard back since. Their pattern of abuse was obvious after looking at reviews of Capital Towing in Dallas, TX.
"illegal booting operation"
step 1 > verify legitimacy of boot... call police if necessary
step 2 > retrieve angle grinder, glass chalk... cut boot, and write "SMILE, YOU'RE ON CAMERA" on the adjacent window... bonus if you actually have a camera aimed there
step 3 > leave broken boot, and a "BILL" for the cost of one cutting blade next to the FORMERLY BOOTED tire. when they show up, call the cops just in case they vandalize your car/house.
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?
"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?
We need a SteveMRE and Lockpicking lawyer crossover video. "This lock has some pretty major flaws. Lets get it out on a tray. Nice"
Sounds like LPL's early videos where he takes locks apart and indeed lays them out on a pinning tray.
I bought this exact model for my camper. It's not meant to stop someone from taking it off who is committed. It's more if a visual deterrent. Plus you dont need the first tool. You can simply pry that little door open with the same screw driver.
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.
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
Now we wait for LPL to teach us how to pick the lock of a prison cell.
About right
One idea that has yet to be presented is what crooks used to use on steering wheel locks. They would spray a can of freon or other refrigerant onto the metal, whack it with a hammer and be gone in a flash. Cheap metal is easily defeated. The old adage of "Build a better mouse trap and I will build a better mouse!" fully applies here. LOL
"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
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
@@FJB_TheBigGuy 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.
My favorite tool for combating an illegal boot is a cordless Milwaukee angle grinder.
I think my battery drill would take the head off one of the pins holding the whole thing together pretty easily. I am fine with destructive picking when it is not my lock.
"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
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.
If the lock is merely for the port then you only really need the screwdriver. You can probably just pry it open
A good idea to be one step ahead of these scheming ratbags !!! But I'd like to see a more robust wheel clamp opened, and removed.
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?
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!
People are forgetting the point why he made this video. It’s not for the rule breakers. It’s for SAFETY!!
"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.
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!
Chicago's Denver Boot and City Parking Violation Tow Rackets are well known. You'd think someone could have posted this before. Thanks, LPL!
Us construction workers don't need info on how to remove a boot we know how,but Thank you for your time 💯
"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
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 CZcams. Sad. Are you really that desperate for some likes??? 🤡😂
These are the type of batmen we need 🤣
Love to read your stories 😁
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
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.
Now, about that AD you got us watching BEFORE the video. I used to always watch Dr. Who ! ... LOVED it! . I myself loved the 4 th Doc. There have always been peoples faves , some even choose the NEW Doctor from the newest version. My ONLY regret is that Disneys gonna touch it , & that ruins it for ALL of US ! how truly SAD. i liked the spot until i saw the 'Disney' logo , then i saw it was DOCTOR WHO .... ! ... ? .... man , that was ONE hell of a LET DOWN : (
You're just encouraging me to have a complete lockpicking set in my trunk, it's working
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.
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?
An Angle Grinder with a cutting disc and less than 5-10mins will permanently take care of (destroy) the clamp.
Battery-powered angle grinder most useful tool to carry around. Gets you into places too!
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?
@@Ae13UPrime In order to arrest someone, police must have evidence that the person actually committed the offense. Without video or eyewitness testimony, there is no evidence of what person actually did it.
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????
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....
A car rental agency wrongfully booted a rental car in my driveway.
Never knew why they did it or if they had the right car or not. So a
quick call to a friend brought a floor jack and a flatbed ended up
with the car and the boot in his garage. Despite over a dozen
letters from lawyers and numerous phone calls they never got their
boot. About a year (yes ONE YEAR) their rental car was found at the
bottom of a creek. Moral - don't buy used cars from rental companies
(they might be waterlogged) and mess with someone your own size.
I'd take the boot with me just to cost the scammer a bit of money.
I'd love to see a destructive method on this product at some point
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@@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.
"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 :(