When we lived with my husbands grandpa he would lock his car with the keys in it alot. We only need to call a lock smith once because normally the other door was unlocked or the back were not locked.
But it finally came the day we either break a window or call a locksmith. We called a locksmith. The man came out looked at the car and asked my husband how old his grandpa is we said 87. He locked at us like this
0.o
Than asked AND HE STILL DRIVES???
We said Yeah lol
He unlocked the door and handed my husband the key and said no charge but only if you go make a copy of his key. We agreed and he didn't charge us a cent but we did tip him a 20 and said buy yourself some lunch on us for helping us. He thanked us.
We managed to lock both sets of flat keys in the flat, called a locksmith, supposed to be three minutes, right? Wrong. Our lock was shitty, so he couldn't open the door (slam lock) after multiple attempts, so he tried to drill it out. About 5 drill bits and 2 hours later (drill bits broke, he went home, got more, got a lead for the drill, and got a new lock) the lock was drilled out and we got a new one installed. Poor guy went home at 6pm. Luckily I had some cash saved, because it turned out to be quite expensive (new lock, many hours, and we tipped him to apologise for the broken drill bits and late stay)
Copying a key just by looking at it? Talk about little superpowers.
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I don't even doubt it. If he learned it the old fashioned way, like copying a key manually with a precision file and not spent his career putting blank keys into a copy machine, he might be able to do it. A really skilled craftsman can fucking blow your mind,
Oh yeah, I'm sure it's likely for people who refined the craft, but it's still really cool and not something I've ever thought about. I'm imagining a minor supervillain who copies keys from memory and uses them to rob stores and banks. Or even an anti-hero or superhero vigilante who does the same to break into places that are corrupt or suspected of criminal activity. The Keymaster.
"I'm a locksmith, and I'm a locksmith."
But it finally came the day we either break a window or call a locksmith. We called a locksmith. The man came out looked at the car and asked my husband how old his grandpa is we said 87. He locked at us like this
0.o
Than asked AND HE STILL DRIVES???
We said Yeah lol
He unlocked the door and handed my husband the key and said no charge but only if you go make a copy of his key. We agreed and he didn't charge us a cent but we did tip him a 20 and said buy yourself some lunch on us for helping us. He thanked us.