Locking a deadbolt from the outside without a Key

Step 4 Locking the door

Open the door
stick the tape to the lever
fold it around the door.
close the door
pull the tape
Door locked!

Comments

[incroyable]

SMART 8) good for you !!!

[desmondtheredx]

a year back i also learnt this trick from a crime investigation show. but locking from inside. You could use a remote control toy car with this too
and it came useful once.

[Morriscow]

 wonder if you could attach it to the knob on the inside and turn it from the outside

[Fluffy, the Destroyer of Worlds]

That would be an awesome prank to forever keep someone out of the room.
If you make it so turning the knob locks the door, after someone unlocks it with a key and try to open it, it will be locked!
If you made it so that to lock it, you turn it whichever way people don't usually turn knobs, it could work as a fix.
If you made it so that to lock it, you turn it whichever way the target does usually turn knobs, it could work as a prank!

[IceTeaEdwin]

Lol, everybody wants to use this for crime now.

[Blofish]

LOL !

[Morriscow]

 howtf would you use it for crime

[IceTeaEdwin]

Reverse engineer, DUH.

[awang8]

Pushing a piece of sticky tape? Umm... OK...

[kbhasi]

lol

[jules15]

i dont get the point of this

[pyro1324]

 The point of this is that you don't remember where your key's are and you need to lock the door

[disneyace]

and how to break into a office  ;D

[jules15]

but cant you just turn the lock on the inside part of the doorknob?

[pyropaul]

Yes but then you can't get out without unlocking again.

[matchbookhymnal]

This is brilliant.  Why does it always take employers so long to get you your own key?!  I could have used this trick several times at my last job.

[trent1]

very nice. In my life I had a similar situation with forgotten key at home.
respect!

[rickick]

How do you open it after ?

[IceTeaEdwin]

With the key.  If you don't have it, tough luck.

[wanyairegi]

You seem to be a very practical guy. but for the murder and concealing evidence you may need to use a nylon string or thin steel wire! brilliant

[ysabet]

Very nicely done. Amusingly enough, there's something very similar in a Japanese anime/manga series, 'Meitante Conan'. I understand that the voice actors started playing pranks afterwards, locking each other out of their rooms.

[ShippingGuy]

Very Nicely Done!

[MatthewEnderle]

then you forget your keys in the room...

[Mark Rehorst]

Ah ! This must be how all those mystery murders are accomplished when the body is found inside a locked room! Bravo!

[teh darkcloud]

I thought all those mystery murders inside a locked room were committed by orangutans.

[jamwaffles]

lmao yeah XD as for the DONT LITTER!!! tooltip on one of the images, it would ruin EVERYTHING if the murderer DID litter lol

[Hextor]

lol yes plastic tape with finger prints all over. would not help your case at all.

[heathbar64]

AH!! using your genius to solve every day problems. Genius!!

[Marsh]

Pretty good tip. Took me a minute to understand it, but I think I could do it now.

[Bluemetal]

It you run the folded tape around the bottom of the inside door knob before bringing it to the outside of the door, it will be easier to fully lock the deadbolt (get it to be in the horizontal locked position as if you had it done from the inside).

[Braunchitis]

I had a weird door lock in my dorm, so I taped a pencil to the deadbolt (as a lever) then attached wire to the end of the pencil. Run the wire over the door and outside, and make a little loop. Then go outside (with your keys!) and pull the wire. Same concept.

[aqwiz]

yeah but this way there's no evidence :p