Defeating a Car Boot Lock with Plastic Pen!?!? 

Ring up the company & tell them you’ve got their boot & they can have it back if they pay a large fee.

I am a retired cop of 30 years. When I first saw my department use the “boot” on parking ticket violators, I cringed. Parking tickets are nothing more than an infraction in the legal scales of justice. To disable a person from being able to operate their car, is flat out wrong. The liability for a city by disabling a car is always a concern. In my opinion, it is wrong. There are better ways to collect delinquent parking fines. Add the unpaid violations onto their yearly registration, or their utility bills, or property tax. If the violator can’t pay his past due tickets, then he won’t get his current registration and he or she now risks getting pulled over for driving with expired registration. Chicken shit piles up and if people don’t take care of infractions, they soon turn into debt and misdemeanors.

I’m a locksmith and I was doing work for a mall and they booted my van. Can you guess what happened to the boot? They are wondering what happened too.

I’m a former Locksmith and ASE Certified Master Automotive Technician and although I have a pick set, this is an excellent way to get such a crappy system! Now I’m disabled with a tumor on my spine and I have seizures too and if I had a seizure or any other medical condition because I couldn’t get home in time, I would definitely be suing the county!!!

If you build it someone will always figure out how to defeat it goes will everything in life

put it back on one of theyre company cars and superglue the lock

He could've picked that lock with a eyelash dipped into olive oil IF he was a subscriber to LockPickingLawyer 🙊

Dude, that’s fucking genius. I used to make lock picks out of the stupidest things like paper clips. Bobby pins, and molding nails, you name it! My dad was a locksmith and he taught me well! ❤️

Final step is to put the boot back on the person's car who gave you the ticket

I used a pen to remove a boot once, well a pen and my checkbook.

Those locks are easy to defeat with an empty 38/357 case and a vise grip or heavy lineman’s pliars. Just tap it in until the pins are set and turn it with the pliars

Glad to see people are standing up for themselves. Our government here is slowing turning into a dictatorship of a country.

This should be re worded to "with a pen AND a Leatherman".... oh and a flat head screw driver.

"Pen is mightier than sword"

Thank you for sharing your experience! 💪🏻

In college I drove a utility truck around (I repaired boilers) that had a blow torch in the back. I helped a friend get out of similar situation a time or two. A quality torch takes about 10 seconds. That was a long time ago. Fun college days…

The LockPickingLawyer would've had that opened inside a minute. 😁

These modern boots have GPS tracking via a SIM card installed inside the boot. I've heard of a guy that stole a boot and took the simcard and used it for free wifi service on his tablet

That is so cool. Never had a boot on my vehicle, but it is fun to see how it can be defeated. Just don't keep the boot to avoid a theft charge, protect our environment and throw it in the trash

I love it! Part of the human condition is like an arms race. If someone can figure out a lock someone else can figure out how to break it.

My favorite example of how to deal with one of these is when someone booted a construction truck (welding and iron work) in downtown. Guy who owned the truck simply took his plasma cutter, and after about 30 seconds, left the 'boot' in multiple pieces where the truck was parked. No fuss no muss.

Police officer: puts a boot on your car Me: grabs pen from pocket, “I’m 4 universes ahead of you”

Thanks everyone!! Wow..valuable knowledge learned here!! Hope I can help somebody out someday..or myself!! Thanks for uploading this!!!✌️😎🇺🇸🇬🇧

Thank you, this was great! I turned mine into a nice TV stands.

With a plastic pen, a multi tool and a flathead screwdriver.

Another neat trick that works on about half of the boots out there is to deflate the tire, jack the car up, and the boot should slide right off. (Good general advice is always carry a jack, air pump, and basic tools in your car - flares, a first-aid kit, and a fire extinguisher could help you save your life or someone else's, too)

Truly a case of the pen being mightier than the sword.

I found this to be hysterical, interesting and fantastic all at once lol. Thank you

Dude: Has Swiss army knife from hell that contains every tool known to man Also Dude: *_P E N_*

That Knife is the real MVP without that none of this is possible 😂

I love it how he put the parking violation paper on camera to make it legit 🤣

Great info... broke the law to get it on and worst by taking it off👏🏾👏🏾

Never leave the removed clamp on scene. Take it with you and discard it so it can not lead to you. A left clamp will be found by the parking enforcers and in most cases they can prove or make a reasonable claim you tampered with said clamp. If the clamp is gone you have plausible deniability in regards to what happened to the clamp and how it got off your wheel... As you may know it is illegal to damage other peoples property so doing any damage (even a paint chip removed) will become a legal problem...unless the clamp is missing completely...So take it with you and scrap it or put in another lock and use it for yourself...

Did anyone else notice how nice that boot is? If it was owned by a municipality it would be well worn and probably have an id number sprayed on it.

Awesome going to do that. I love it 🤣🤣🤣 thanks man👍👍👍👍

Great video - thank you!

This is why I always say locks are for honest people. Another great video.

I don't think the city uses Harbor Freight boot...

It's so nice to see wholesome videos showing people how to break the law and add to the already sizeable amount of fines they have collected...

The problem is, your plates are already registered in the system with the violation against that vehicle. You eventually will have to pay for it.

Ah the good ol ace key. Once thought a hard lock to pick open. My Father was a Police Officer in our town. He installed one to open the garage door, located outside. I was watching something about these lock's, like this around 1975. The story was, if this switch was used to control power, and window cleaner was sprayed into the key area, it opens without a key. When Pop's saw me open the door, let's just say he "wasn't happy".

Cordless grinder with a metal cut off wheel would do the job in about 90 seconds

Legend has it the boot cost him $29.95, and he unlocked it with the key. The world may never know.

MacGuyver would be proud.

I love that the parking ticket is right there on the ground so u know its legit 🤣 dudes a savage lmao

I like how he just slams the ink well with contempt and violence.

That's why I always keep a few extra drive out tags with me at all times an I cover the Vin in the window with a piece of paper or somthing. All they can do boot it an write down the fake drive out tag.

Thank God wheel clamping has just been made illegal in western Australia it's a dog act anyway

Or you could ask your grandmother for her freezer key. 😂👋🤣

I thought you were trolling at first but then when it worked I was amazed.

Loved it man beautiful!

After seeing how flimsy the door was that the lock secured I think just the screwdriver would do the trick.

Do you realize how many people needed this video? Merry Christmas to you my friend

Still loving it. You got the boot for wrong parked car, and then this car is grounded for much longer in place it shouldn't be. Lmao

Nice and clean!

He didn't break it so it could be reused boot the booter

If you ever get your gas shut off at the meter w/ one of those pin locks...A 7/16" deep well socket that fits a 1/4 " ratchet w/ the end ground down will pop the lock in about 2 seconds... ...So I've been told. Stay warm my friends.

San Francisco people need this .THANKS

This is the best asmr out there lol well the hole part where he is making the pen part

Flipping Hoa did this to me had some proper tools took off the boot walked into the office and set it right on the receptionist desk the fat manager was like “we charge five hundred for you breaking the boot” I said yeah sure pal I didn’t break it.

Take it and throw it through the window of the company that placed the boot on there with a note saying "Can you relate to the feeling now of being inconvenienced!" Haha

Parking Wars will never be the same

Beating the system bro✊

Exactly how I opened my GameCube 15 years ago

I saw a plumber that I used to work with, pick the locks that the gas company would put on meters. They were that cylinder type also but he used a piece of 3/8" OD copper tubing, flared at the end. This was over 40 years ago.

You know what's faster more fun and gives you better results? A battery-powered angle grinder with a metal cutting disc. You can also use a battery powered sawzall, but more risk to the tire. My truck is full of tools so, I would just laugh if that happened to me. I doubt they could get their boot around my 33-in off-road tires and classic Ford steel rims. I also have a generator in the back in case my batteries are dead and I need to switch to 120 volt power tools. Lol. with the angle grinder you can cut through it in a matter of seconds, and you can cut it up into several little pieces and leave it right there on the road for them to find. 👍

Empty shell casings work great too !!

😂😂😂😂 See this right here is why I LOVEEEEEEE RU-vid!! I learn sooooo much!! I've never had a boot on my car but this was so satisfying to watch!!😂😂😂

Me who has no reason to ever have one of these placed on my vehicle : noted

Keep it as a souvenir

Not the hero we wanted but the hero we needed 🤣

"Click on one, click on two"..."this is a pen I developed with Bosnian Bill".

Cordless angle grinder with a cutoff wheel.

One million thanks, 👍🙂

I was uneasy when you carefully took that ballistic pen apart with that multi tool.

I thought pissing on them right before they come to take them off was I was funny but this is awesome.

Let me guess, your next video is baking a cake with a file in it and you escape from a supermax prison.......

MacGyver would be proud

Merci Bic !!!

Cool, but it looks like the hinge-pin side of the cam lock compartment is a weak point. I'm thinking you could get in there much faster with satisfying destruction.

Now what you do is melt it down and sell it for scrap

Good to see the pen came with a screwdriver.

Meanwhile the cop behind you , hands you the pen and says here you need this

I actually lifted up my car onto 4 car dollies....and pushed it right into the garage and shut the door.

Give this man a Nobel Peace Prize

Good stuff!!!

Well done sir

Some people allegedly report of seeing the pen back cap still flying and buncing on the great plains of Nebraska

Title: Defeating a car boot lock with a pen. Plyers, file, and screwdriver: are we a joke to you?

Remember, the pen is mightier than the sword....

Good Job Man !!👍🤣💪👏

That boot looks fresh out of the box.

I was watching a man play the accordion for cows and this was the next video that popped up .

REMEMBER to take that boot with you. Don't leave it for them to use on anyone else.

Great job

He must of bought one and practiced how to break out of it. Good job sir, I might need it some days lol 😂.

Why do I feel like the lock was unlocked the whole time? Does anyone else feel that way?

I haven’t had single parking fine in my 15 years of driving. However this is a great hack and thanks to one who posted it. My question is, the authority who put that boot, don’t they have our car number and VIN noted in their system? So even if we remove it, we’d still be charged with more fine than what we could’ve paid to remove it.

Neat trick. The physical boot is only part of the problem. A vehicle that has been booted is also in the system so it is not like nobody is going to know what happened.

Thanks, I'll have to remember that one. Very helpful and cool.🖖😎👍