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    10 months ago

    breaking zip ties isn’t easy… but if you have a paper clip or something, it’s a simple mechanism and you can lift the little plastic tab and loosen it…
    or melt it with a lighter…

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      10 months ago

      Use the Heisenberg method, bite a lamp cord with your teeth, use the ends to cause a short burning the zip ties and burning the piss out of your wrists. You’re then free to go hide your methylamine at your car wash.

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        10 months ago

        you know, i don’t think i could bite through a lamp cord…

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            10 months ago

            well even then… it’s metal.
            also it would’ve popped a circuit breaker before melting anything anyways…

            i double checked...

            turns out it was a coffee maker, too…
            if he would’ve just cut one side and left the other connected, so the current still went through the coffee maker… it probably would’ve worked as a resistor to keep it from blowing.
            if it was actually an incandescent lightbulb it definitely would work…

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      10 months ago

      Hi, i regularly open and reuse zip ties.

      I use a knife and it’s hard enough with that fine point. Unless your zip ties have massive openings and lots of slop it would be impossible with a paper clip.

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        10 months ago

        A small flat head screwdriver also works, although the legit handcuffs may be more tamper resistant.

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        10 months ago

        well ive definitely done it with a paper clip on a normal zip tie… the cop ones are a lot thicker so it seem like the tab would be bigger and easier to fuck with…