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To: grundle

Nobody there with the wherewithal to bust the doors open?

The handcuffs are only handcuffs and can only take so much strain.


3 posted on 04/08/2025 6:13:07 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus)
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To: metmom

They could have been hinged cuffs.


4 posted on 04/08/2025 6:15:12 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: metmom
"The handcuffs are only handcuffs and can only take so much strain."

Doesn't everyone carry a handcuff key?

I've been carrying one more than 30 years. Almost all cuffs use the universal key, which is readily available online (coff, coff, Amazon, coff). Only costs a couple of bucks and takes up almost no room in your wallet. With it in your wallet in a hip pocket you can still reach it with your hands cuffed behind your back. When I've worked overseas, I had several pairs of slacks with a key sewn into the hem of a hip pocket.

If a door is secured more substantially than by handcuffs, I've DIYed some 12-gauge breaching shells with an ounce of lead filings (each) suspended in molten paraffin. It leaves the barrel like a slug but shatters on impact into harmless iron filings. I've got a dozen of them on my shotgun shell bandolier.

If you want to open it with less noise, you can DIY a breaching tool from a Fat Max with an angle grinder.

11 posted on 04/08/2025 6:57:21 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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