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    Before Your Next Crime Spree, Be Sure to Print Your Own Handcuff Key

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    Image of KyleW KyleW
    09/18/09

    In reply to Before Your Next Crime Spree, Be Sure to Print Your Own Handcuff Key
    I always have a handcuff key on my keychain in case I need them.
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    Image of IUHoos IUHoos
    09/18/09

    @KyleW: Too bad cops dont let you keep any possessions while handcuffed. Trust me, i know.
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    gemcosta promoted this comment IUHoos was starred IUHoos was unstarred
    Image of gemcosta gemcosta
    09/18/09

    @IUHoos: That's why you don't keep this key on your keychain. You'll need to be a little bit more...resourceful.
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    Image of JSR694 JSR694
    09/18/09

    ...

    (he means your butt)
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    YahooUnserious promoted this comment JSR694 was starred JSR694 was unstarred
    Image of szrimaging szrimaging
    09/18/09

    In reply to Before Your Next Crime Spree, Be Sure to Print Your Own Handcuff Key
    Not sure how useful this is anymore. Most LEO by me no longer use handcuffs, instead opting for the ziptie style cuffs.
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    Image of Timothy Collins Timothy Collins
    09/18/09

    In reply to Before Your Next Crime Spree, Be Sure to Print Your Own Handcuff Key
    Wait - all handcuffs have the same key? Isn't that just inviting something like this?
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    SigmundTheSeaMonster promoted this comment Timothy Collins was starred Timothy Collins was unstarred
    Image of SigmundTheSeaMonster SigmundTheSeaMonster
    09/18/09

    @Timothy Collins: In the US, there are only two: East of the Miss and West of it. So I was told by a known-felon. Or, I didn't know he was until he was arrested. Dumb@ss...
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    Image of PorterDawgschidt PorterDawgschidt
    09/18/09

    In reply to Before Your Next Crime Spree, Be Sure to Print Your Own Handcuff Key
    This is a moot point because police officers put the cuffs on with the keyhole facing AWAY from your fingers. My cop buddies handcuffed me, handed me the key, and I still couldn't get myself out!
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    Odin promoted this comment PorterDawgschidt was starred PorterDawgschidt was unstarred
    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
    09/18/09

    @PorterDawgschidt: That is only a factor if you are dealing with hinged cuffs, and not linked/chain cuffs. Even IF you face chained cuffs with the key hole pointing in towards the suspect, it's simple to rotate each wrist opposit e the other and get access to the key hole. I'm the son of a retired officer, so I've had plenty of experience handling cuffs and practicing opening them.
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    Image of IveGotSoul IveGotSoul
    09/18/09

    In reply to Before Your Next Crime Spree, Be Sure to Print Your Own Handcuff Key
    Despite the fact that even if it is already easy to do, why would you post anything about busting out of cuffs anyways?
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    09/18/09

    @IveGotSoul: Because it's an interesting use of technology.
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    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    09/18/09

    @IveGotSoul: Because not all of us believe that knowledge is inherently dangerous and anything we can imagine could happen invariably will.
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    Image of deanbmmv deanbmmv
    09/17/09

    In reply to Before Your Next Crime Spree, Be Sure to Print Your Own Handcuff Key
    i just thought it was the cheap kiddy/novelty cuffs that used keys like that. I'd of thought the proper cuffs police used would be.. a bit more complex? kinda scary to think they'd be that simple.
    I can see it being useful on those kinky nights n your partner think's it'd be kinky to swallow the key or something.
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    Image of BrokenFeather BrokenFeather
    09/17/09

    In reply to Before Your Next Crime Spree, Be Sure to Print Your Own Handcuff Key
    [en.wikipedia.org]

    One of the officers was a family friend. Please don't show items like this!
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    Image of lostarchitect lostarchitect
    09/17/09

    @BrokenFeather: anyone can get handcuff keys online or in an army surplus or police supply store, and it will be a lot easier than printing one with a 3d printer, which very few people have access to. i'm sorry that happened to your friend, but this article makes escaping from the police easier for exactly no one.
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    weatherman promoted this comment Edited by lostarchitect at 09/17/09 10:29 PM lostarchitect was starred lostarchitect was unstarred
    Image of Rosa Golijan Rosa Golijan
    09/17/09

    @BrokenFeather: I'm very sorry for what happened to your friend, and for all the similar incidents that have and continue to occur.

    Unfortunately, handcuff keys are quite easily accessible in various security supply stores, from mail order catalogs, and on many websites. To make a key with this process is incredibly time consuming and difficult, but maybe having the information freely available can raise awareness and result in some kind of preventative measures?
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    09/17/09

    @BrokenFeather: Start using zip-ties instead of handcuffs.

    Problem solved.
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    Image of Sean Scrooby Grube Sean Scrooby Grube
    09/17/09

    @Rosa Golijan: I bet if we show how to create your own bombs and what chemicals to mix together in a coke bottle to kill a room full of people, then we can learn preventative measures...? no?
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    Image of uttc16 uttc16
    09/17/09

    @HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H.: yes, because finding a tool that'll get you out of zip-ties is harder..... ehhhemmm....
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    Image of Sean Scrooby Grube Sean Scrooby Grube
    09/17/09

    @uttc16: Never been zip-tied? Get the ones we use when we hog-tie people. I'll even give you a razor blade. See if you don't cut your wrists before you cut those off.
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    Odin promoted this comment Sean Scrooby Grube was starred Sean Scrooby Grube was unstarred
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    09/17/09

    @Sean Scrooby Grube: That information is already freely available to anybody that wants to know it.
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    Rosa Golijan promoted this comment Shamoononon: I shave my legs. was starred Shamoononon: I shave my legs. was unstarred
    Image of deanbmmv deanbmmv
    09/17/09

    @Sean Scrooby Grube: I'd imagine how to make even the simplest of bombs would be common knowledge. And advanced lessons are only a Google away.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
    09/17/09


    @BrokenFeather: You will note this could not duplicate a key like a S&W Max Security type cuff, which is L shaped, and not just a standard tab.
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    Image of Magnavox Magnavox
    09/18/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_HasANewiPodTouch: On the Smith & Wesson key - I have used several rapid prototyping machines from the fab-at-home to selective laser sintering. All of them can make that key. The question is how strong it needs to be, not what shape. The key (get it?) in printing the S&W shape is starting with the tip as the base and building up from there. It's simple to design supports (often they are computer generated) to take care of the larger top loop.
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    GitEmSteveDave_HasANewNameToday promoted this comment Magnavox was starred Magnavox was unstarred
    Image of Odin Odin
    09/18/09

    @Sean Scrooby Grube:
    Zipties are weakest to wire cutters and to a lesser extend scissors. You're unlikely to be carrying these though and while cutting through ties around your hands is possible while they're tied it'd be damn tricky. I wouldn't trust scissors as much for the job though.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
    09/18/09

    @Magnavox: Also remember that the key is hollow, and in a double lock cuff, you have rotate the key with pressure in both directions to open it.
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    Image of emjayrules emjayrules
    09/18/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_HasANewNameToday: Actually, it looks like you could duplicate it still, but only if you started printing the tip of the key first.
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    GitEmSteveDave_HasANewNameToday promoted this comment emjayrules was starred emjayrules was unstarred
    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
    09/18/09

    @emjayrules: Even if you did, the amount of force on that little tab that sticks up would probably snap it off given it's length vs. width.
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    Image of Nipple Juice Nipple Juice
    09/17/09

    In reply to Before Your Next Crime Spree, Be Sure to Print Your Own Handcuff Key
    I would do nasty disgusting things with a 3D printer.
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    09/18/09

    @Nipple Juice: [www.reprap.org]

    Go nuts. Post pictures.
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    Image of hotbutteredtoast hotbutteredtoast
    09/17/09

    In reply to Before Your Next Crime Spree, Be Sure to Print Your Own Handcuff Key
    There was a guy in upstate New York who kept handcuff keys up his butt at all times. He murdered several people and always got away when caught.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
    09/17/09

    @hotbutteredtoast: I knew a pirate who swallowed a handcuff key every Thursday and Tuesday for just such an occasion.
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    Image of OCEntertainment OCEntertainment
    09/18/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_HasANewNameToday: I once knew a guy who would swallow a handcuff key, a cell key, a capsule full of explosive powder, and a small handgun every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. For the weekend, he'd also swallow an AK-47. Just in case.
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    09/18/09

    @OCEntertainment: Was he in Surf Ninjas as well?
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    09/18/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_HasANewNameToday: My dude was way too busy doing crime to get a movie deal. You know how it is.
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    Image of SJRNWT SJRNWT
    09/17/09

    In reply to Before Your Next Crime Spree, Be Sure to Print Your Own Handcuff Key
    OR...

    [www.trueswords.com]

    Just throwing that out there...

    PS: During my teenage hijinks, I managed to get out of handcuffs by pulling my hands under my feet (Jackie Chan style), grabbing my multitool (they never found it on me), and just snipping the chain and running away like there was no tomorrow. Never got caught, and I still have that multitool.
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    weatherman promoted this comment SJRNWT was starred SJRNWT was unstarred
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    09/17/09

    @SJRNWT: yes, but are you still wearing the handcuffs?
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee GitEmSteveDave_HurtHisKnee
    09/17/09

    @SJRNWT: How did you escape the back of the car?
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    Image of madog madog
    09/18/09

    @SJRNWT: I'd probably get tired and need a cigarette using all that energy to get my fat tree trunks up and over my linked wrists only to get one through while the other is still stuck behind eventually injuring my testicles and back when the cops pull me out and try to stand me up.

    That or I would get shot in the face for attempted escape. Which ever option is "better".
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    Edited by madog at 09/18/09 12:30 PM madog was starred madog was unstarred
    Image of junyo junyo
    09/17/09

    In reply to Before Your Next Crime Spree, Be Sure to Print Your Own Handcuff Key
    And this is why gun control is an obsolete concept.
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    Image of hypnotik_jello hypnotik_jello
    09/17/09

    @junyo: huh? because people can print their own guns? huh?
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    Image of junyo junyo
    09/17/09

    @hypnotik_jello: Essentially. The basic components of a firearm aren't that complicated, as long as you have access to a supply of springs. When access to these types of printers becomes more commonplace weapons fabrication will be trivial.
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    Image of the_sidewinder the_sidewinder
    09/17/09

    @junyo: So we can all have plastic guns that will blow up when fired?
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    Image of R_Claw R_Claw
    07/15/09

    In reply to Someone Get Ricky Gervais This Crunching Elmo With USB Penis
    Best. You. Tube. Video. Ever. Ricky Gervais is a comic genius, ugh I am crying.



    And, I don't want to stick Elmo's peen in my port, if you know what I'm sayin'. I would likely get arrested.
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    07/15/09

    In reply to Someone Get Ricky Gervais This Crunching Elmo With USB Penis
    Oh Giz, Giz, Giz. How easily you're amused.
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    07/08/09

    In reply to So This Was Obvious
    I'll need quite a few of these..
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    Image of Serolf Divad Serolf Divad
    07/08/09

    In reply to So This Was Obvious
    Any keychain that's also a functional, mini etc-a-sketch isn't worthy of the name, IMHO.
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    07/08/09

    @Serolf Divad:


    Er... I meant to say any keychain that insn't a mini etch-a-sketch

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