Locked out of your car? Try this.

[Kingofalldems]

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[secondwind]

1. That was cool! And simple. Tks!

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Every car thief in North America will thank that officer

Nothing is safe. And the police won't believe you when it's reported and your insurance company will thumb their nose. Great police work! As usual aiding the criminals more than the public.

[secondwind]

3. Yikes!!! Lol 😂

[Emile]

8. Much easier and faster using a brick. That's

what a guy walking down a dark alley in St. Louis told me when I locked my keys in my Freightliner! True story 😃

[underpants]

4. How to do it with painters tape

https://youtube.com/shorts/GujikX9ZNtw?feature=share

[Ocelot II]

5. Except that you won't have your two plungers and the tape if you've locked them in your car.

This technique is useful only in situations where you have access to two plungers and a roll of tape - at home (most people probably have only one plunger, if that) or within walking distance of a store that sells them, assuming you haven't also locked your wallet or your purse in your car.

[Ferrets are Cool]

6. Except that NOW, anyone wanting to STEAL stuff from your car WILL have those items.

[Ocelot II]

7. That is also true, though it looks like it takes some time

and most thieves want to work a little faster. Normally they just break a window.

[TexasBushwhacker]

10. Yup. I stupidly left my laptop in my car

They didn't even use an instrument. They just wrapped their fist in a towel and punched the window in. I know because they left the towel!

[Skittles]

9. I paid a gang member to retrieve my keys

it was pretty funny, when he started he was looking surreptitiously left and right and I told him, um, you don't have to do that, this IS my car - oh right, he said, and promptly got in

[frogmarch]

11. Are they practical joke videos?

In the plunger video, for the window to move, it would've had to come loose from the carrier, which would have been attached securely to the bottom of the window. If the window did come loose, it would have kept going down.

In the duct tape video, did you notice that the window started moving before he started moving the tape? It appears that someone else is running the electric window down.

[bluestarone]

12. I'm thinking

Some persons (car thief's) gonna buy more painters tape.