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Posted on 18/09/04

Sometimes the pen is mightier than the lock

WINNIPEG -- Short, amateurish videos of bike locks might seem an unlikely smash hit, but they ranked among the hottest downloads on the Internet this week as hundreds of thousands of people searched for answers to a strange question: Does an ordinary plastic pen really make a good lock-pick?

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