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Welcome to The Lock Sportscast, your weekly source for locksport news and sometimes interviews. This is episode 47 recorded April 24, 2021. I'm your host, Charles Current in today's episode. Locksmith hailed the hero Jerry sides with Kimi banner acquires HL flake, new article on the belt system. Possibly the world's tiniest challenge Lock.

A $30 million international bank, heist, and other Lock being criminals and criminal locksmiths, sails and giveaways.

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I'm going to start with a correction this week. Uh, last week I mentioned that tool U S was doing their elections and the elections ran until the 23rd. But that appears to not actually be the case this year. That's what I interpreted from their email, which said elections from April 2nd to the 23rd. And it said, if you haven't received your ballot to email them and talk to them, which is what I relayed last week, but, uh, Chirael did email them.

Chirael uh, sent them an email and he included me on the reply and they said that. They don't think any ballots have gone out yet as with everything, uh, in these times, things have been a bit delayed. So I guess just keep checking your email for your ballot because it hopefully should be coming soon.

First up in the news this week, a locksmith, it has been hailed a hero by a celebrity radio presenter. Alan EHRs, 64 of height currently runs a Lock forest Colchester and has been a locksmith for more than 25 years or working a job in Lexington. He received a phone call from a Lisa Matthews whose mother is being treated in the hospital, very upset and struggling to get her words out.

She explained that her elderly and ill dad was trapped at home alone due to his carer being unable to get in. Mr. Ayers says, I told her to calm down because she was so stressed and she was really panicking. I immediately dropped what I was doing and rushed over there and managed to get the door unlocked and get inside.

I then went and calmed her dad down and then made him a cup of tea and had a chat with him before calling his daughter to tell her all it was okay. All was okay. She literally burst into tears and was so pleased and relieved because she was working on the other side of London and was not able to get there.

While there, he also repaired the back door, which was being held up by bits of wood. He then went about his day and thought Mow no more of it. But later he started to get phone calls and texts from his friends and family saying he had just been named hero of the day on Sarah Cox's radio to program. He said I was flabbergasted because Lisa Matthews had put me up for it because of what I did for her.

And I was just stunned. It was all about how much of a hero I was. And ever since then people have been calling me about it. It's all a bit embarrassing if I'm honest, but I will definitely call Lisa soon to thank her during his career. As a locksmith, Mr. Ayers has helped a lot of people earlier this year, he came to the rescue of an NHS doctor who locked himself out of his car and left his keys inside.

Mr. Harris says people do panic when they lose their keys. So I shot around there straight away, and he was so pleased after what doctors and nurses have done this year. I will never charge them for my services. Again, they deserve it in some industry news here, a federal jury in Marshall decided this week that Kimi a key duplication kiosk maker headquartered in New York did not infringe patents, belonging to competitor the Hillman group.

The six patents in the suit related to self-service key duplication technology that covered the operation and management of kiosks. The patents relate to critical, mechanical and electrical systems for identifying an existing key and cutting that pattern onto a key blank. Hellman. The plaintiff produces a variety of key duplication machines, including its fast key minute key and key crafter key duplication machines.

Kimi provides self-service key duplication, kiosks to the retail industry and drives its revenue from the sale of keys duplicated in the kiosks. The lawsuit States, the jury trial began in Marshall's federal court on April 5th and concluded on April 12th with the jury reaching a unanimous verdict, finding that Kimi did not infringe any claims in the patents, in the suit.

Also banner solutions has now announced its acquisition of HL flakes, security hardware based in Houston, HL flake is one of the largest independent security hardware distributors in the United States with strong position in the locksmith market. Brendan  president and CEO of Benner solutions said HL flake is a company we've long admired for their commitment to serving the locksmiths customer.

This represents a tremendous opportunity for better solutions to add a wealth of expertise in history in that critical channel, as well as an assortment of products that more completely service the needs of the locksmith. At the same time, HL flake customers will gain the power of the Banet. Our industry leading distribution network.

Mark D. Knight CEO of HL flake said. From our beginnings as a bicycle retailer to today, HL flake is now spent 109 years focused on our customers by becoming a part of banner solutions. We have the opportunity to expand our product offering and distribution network to serve our locksmith customers better than ever.

We're proud to join a company that has the same commitment to taking care of its customers. Uh, this acquisition marks banner solutions, seventh as a platform, and second under tailwind capital HL flake security hardware. We'll be integrating into banner solutions throughout 2021 to ensure minimal disruption for customers.

HL flight customers will continue to deal with the same team they have grown accustomed to throughout the years, according to the press release. In community news midnight, Phillip Phillip picker, um, dropped by and wanted to let me know about the video Roon made, um, for his grandfather, uh, after his grandfather's passing here recently.

And, um, I just want to personally say, uh, sorry for your loss Roon. Um, I don't really know what to say. It's hard to hard to know what you're going through, especially with, uh, All the isolation that we have now. So, um, I hope you're doing okay. And if you need anything, just reach out and ask in other news.

Uh, . Has put out a new article on the tool, UK blog entitled the belt ranking system. Uh, it's a really good article and he covers what the system is. And just as importantly, what it isn't basically what it can do, what it can't do, what it can rank, what it can't rank. It's very well thought out and very well written.

And I really recommend that you head over there and check it out. That's on a tool.uk under their blog section. And if you want, there's a link in the show notes. Can Nixon put out a, another video on the Kwikset smart key S C one keyway version. The new one, he has description says in-depth analysis with picking vectors of Kwikset, SC one smart key Lock.

And he does a more in-depth analysis than last time even. And he does show a one possible way. It might be picked and he does run through it with a couple of. Sliders removed, showing that it can be done and he thinks so. Um, I'll be interested to see somebody do it with all of the sliders in place. See how well that works.

Mr. Black magic made a new Lock cam video featuring the MEWA anchor 3,800. The Lock has a combination of dimple pens and magnetic sliders. It's a very cool mechanism and he does a very good job of breaking it down and showing you the sliders, how they work and how to pick it. Also he has made what may be the world's tiniest challenge Lock.

He calls it LA petite Mort. He used an Avis 65 20. He was a combination of undercuts, custom drivers, small QA blocker, and a little top of the queue way disruption to help prevent a proper tensioning. So it looks very, very difficult to pick. And I'll have a link to the tweet he put up in the show notes.

And if you have ever thought about becoming a locksmith and wondering what kind of glorious and exciting things you would get to do on a daily basis, then I have a video for you. The video is called a locksmith day movie, and you can find it on the se locking key YouTube channel. Jason. Yeah, there a video that shows a day in the life of locksmith.

And if after you finish watching, you still want to be a locksmith. Then, uh, I recommend you head over to Lock, picking patrolman's channel and check out the video series. We talked about last week, where he's doing his cop to locksmith blog series. We have some new records this week@thespeedlocks.org.

They're speed picking records. The, we have a first record on the six Penn version of the 1100 picked by at the 10 man, 1986 in 23.232 seconds. A first record on the urban health stealth key picked by Mr. Black magic in one minute 36.96 seconds. A first record on the Pyrolock seven picked by Mr. Black magic in one 16.8 for a first record on the asset decimal eight slider version by Mr.

Black magic in 45.72 seconds. A first record on the canard five pen. And in pen Lock picked by Lock affinity in 23.033 seconds. A first record on the ISIS picked by Roon in four minutes, 57.3 63 seconds short and shortly after a new record from HV logic in three minutes, 9.3 seconds. You have a first record on the PacLock 100 G picked by cracking and 52.433.

A first record on the Magna or master Lock Magnum, and five picked by lemon in 1.8 seconds. A new record on the master Lock three by cracking in 0.6 seconds and a couple of new entries for the 1100. Uh, none of them were new bests moving on to the Lock pickers, United karate belts. We have three new purple belts, one by one by memorials.

Then MOG, Lambert and salt maker shaker all earn their purple belts. This week. We also have three new Brown belts. Logan is on discord, red wander and Mao all got their Brown belts. Duck facts and efficient or Ringle, both earned their read this week. Congratulations to all of you. Very well done,

and a new announcement on the Lock picker, snag discard reads. I'd like to welcome. Well Gatto to the circle of black belt pickers. He tackled the Assa twin six, K the Assa twin combi  and mule PR to top it off. He showed his versatility by cracking a group to dial. Please congratulate him. Congratulations, legato.

Very, very well done and welcome. Well, I can't welcome you to the black book, cause I'm not a black belt, but, uh, congratulations on becoming a black belt. If you're not already familiar with the Lock pickers United karate belt system, that will be links in the show notes to the belt ranking page on Reddit.

So you can head over there and check out the rules and how to earn one of those. And now it's time to take a quick break and say thank you to people that made this episode possible. Uh, we'll start off with the founding executive producers. These are the Patriot members that help support the show.

Finance lit financially. We have bill en. Meddler Panda-Frog Michael Gilchrist. Starrylock Williams' brain Dave Dewey, deciphered Liibans Locksports Journey, Pat from on sensor tactical, pH Becker three records in a raincoat and Chirael. And then for content producers, we have the chief content producer this week is Mr.

Black magic. The other content producers this week are Chirael evil arch. Archconservative Georgia, Jim HV logic, Joshua Gonzales, Michael Gilchrist MidnightPhilopicker Panda-Frog pocket woman Pyrolock Roon. And Starrylock thank you to all of you. Um, news has been a little light this week. Uh, Bye for what was sent in.

So just remember that the show is only possible because of the sport of the community. Um, so if you're getting value out of this podcast, please return some value to this podcast. The most important way you can do that is news links, information, anything you have that's Lock sport related that you think the rest of the community should know, or would just be entertained by knowing, send it in.

And don't be afraid to send stuff that you think somebody else has already sent because quite often they haven't. So I say that a lot, but I still get people saying, well, I figured somebody else would have sent you that. Um, no, they don't. Uh, other things you can do a show the podcast with your friends, anybody, you know, that's interested in lockpicking, uh, share the podcast with them in person or online.

It doesn't matter. Just get it on their radar. You can leave a review on your favorite podcasting platform or a comment and a thumbs up on YouTube. If you want to help financially, you can donate via patron or PayPal. If you join on Patrion, you do get a private RSS feed through them. That will get you this show a little bit early.

As soon as I'm done editing it, I upload it and the patrons get it. Then usually it's about a day early, sometimes two days. Um, and if it's a interview episode yeah. About a week early, she usually eats, you should start the show with a donation or information I can use in the show. I will give you credit and a shout out on the show.

So, uh, if you're wanting to hear your name on the show, that's one way to do it. Uh, just a reminder. I am looking for anybody that is in the community that runs some sort of service for the community. Um, either. A web store or they sell locks or they make cutaways. Anything that you do with community that you'd be willing to set up a way for me to do a gift certificate or gift card.

I would love to buy something from you to put up as an alternative for the PacLock in my giveaway for people who may have already won them, or don't want one of them, uh, something in the 20 to $25 range would be ideal, uh, per giveaway. So. You know, I haven't heard anything from anybody. So, uh, uh, hopefully somebody out there is interested in doing that.

That's something I'd really like to do. If not, I'll have to go to one of the vendors that's outside the community, but I'd rather keep my money inside the community and have a go-to from one community man, bird to the other. Don't be afraid to send some feedback if you want, uh, can be video, audio, or just written, um, and just make sure it's nonpolitical and not dramatic and work safe.

And, uh, I will include it in the show. Moving on to the crazy locksmith story this week, I'm actually pulling it from a different source instead of being from the usual American key supply. This story is from Mr. Ayer. The hero locksmith mentioned in the article at the top of the show. He says his funniest experience of having to get someone out of trouble involved, a stranded man in a bath towel, in a cheeky pet pooch.

He said, I got a call from a man in Berg, Holt saying he had been locked out of his house and was in his neighbor. Neighbor's home. When I got there, he came out with just a towel around him. And so I had to ask him what had happened. He told me he had gone to check if the milkman had dropped off his milk and then the dog had jumped in, shut the door behind him.

It was right on high street as well. So everyone could see him. I could not stop laughing. That was a really funny one. In lockpicking criminal news this week, according to federal authorities, three Brooklyn men were arrested and accused of stealing more than $30 million in cash and other valuables from safety, positive boxes across to Europe.

A grand jury indictment charged the men with money laundering, conspiracy and violation of the traveler act after a string of alleged theft between March, 2015 on October, 2019 at banks in Ukraine in Russia, North Macedonia, or Divia Latevia Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and France. According to the indictment, the men targeted foreign banks that appeared to lack certain security features, including video surveillance cameras in certain areas, they opened accounts in those branches to get into safe deposit box rooms, where they used sophisticated camera equipment, including a borescope to photograph the insides of locks of the other individuals, safe deposit boxes.

Court documents said. Then they made and used duplicate keys to open those boxes and steal their contents, including currency gold bars, jewelry, and other property. According to the indictment, FBI assistant director, William Sweeney Jr. Said in a statement. The crimes that we alleged in this indictment read like something straight out of Hollywood fiction that the thieves used sophisticated tools to thwart security systems at foreign banks and tried to cover their tracks by laundering money through U S banks.

It does sound like something out of a Hollywood movie. Um, but there it is. In Kingston, Ontario, Canada, Kingston police said in a news release that at about 11:40 PM. Officer saw a man riding his bicycle. As they watched him. The officer saw him commit multiple highway traffic act violations. So they stopped him as they investigated further, they found that he was from the area and he was breaching court imposed conditions.

So they arrested him. They searched him and found a lock pick gun and a quantity of substance suspected to be crystal methamphetamine. Police said he was charged with possession of breaking instrument, unlawful possession of a schedule, one substance failure, failing to comply with an undertaking, whatever that means.

And two counts of breaching his probation. And in Spain, national police officers in Mulago have arrested a wanted 56 year old Spanish man catching him red handed at the scene of his last crime. As he was leaving a house he had just robbed. The investigation was launched in February after 14 robberies were reported in a short period of time by property owners in the Capitol.

All committed by a criminal using the exact same modus operandi of scaling walls and breaking and entering via a window. And always during the day on April 15th, officers from the UDV robbery group caught the suspect as he was exiting a home, he had just broken into and robbed. He tried to escape on foot, but was eventually intercepted after a chase.

As a result of this one arrest, the investigators were able to link the man to the 14 previous robberies. And it turned out that the suspect was a highly experienced robber who had 68 previous convictions for similar activity, spending time in prison, a subsequent search of the man's home revealed numerous items that had previously been reported stolen, including mobile phones, jewelry, watches, and bicycles officers found a complete set of.

Professional Lock pecs as well. And, uh, just on a personal note, an important thing to note here is that he owned a set of pecs, but he didn't appear to be carrying them or using them in his break-ins probably because it's not the quickest, easiest way to get into most homes. And not Lock, picking criminal story, but it is related and interesting.

Please have interviewed four people from a locksmith company who bombarded a pop-up internet advert featuring one of their rivals. The aim was to keep the company's name as low as possible in any online search engine, as well as costing them money and Alicante based emergency locksmith from complained to the police that their advertising budget was being drained by hundreds of bogus clicks from around Spain.

The company claimed that they took a big financial hit as each click on their ads, cost them 20 Euro and their daily quota of visitors was being quickly used up. Please see our nation now cyber experts track the IP addresses. The bombarding clicks were coming from. It appeared they had no interest in the services of locksmith with multiple hits being recorded in short periods.

Three men and a woman were identified behind the operation and they were all involved with another locksmith company. They have been interviewed by the police in national, in Alicante and face possible fraud charges. And I know I'm pronouncing all these words wrong in West Virginia. A mountain Lake park man has been arrested on charge of impersonating a police officer in April detectives with the Garrett County Sheriff's office criminal investigator.

Criminal investigation division conducted an investigation into a mountain Lake park president, allegedly impersonating a police officer and operating a locksmith company without a license. They say that during the end of March, the owner of ABC lock and key LLC reportedly unlocked a truck at the pilot station in Grantsville.

And the subsequent days following he called the truck company, allegedly identifying himself as an officer with the state police of Maryland and requesting payment, or he would place a suspension on the trucker's license. Detectives conducted further interviews and determined that he is not a certified police officer and does not possess a locksmith license or a business license.

On April 15th, detectives assisted by patrol deputies and troopers executed a search and seizure warrant. As a result of the search detectives located several bi-fold waltz with police style badges and a laminated police style badge with a police pin on a clip in the residence, their press release States.

Also, according to the release, they located numerous locksmith tools, blank keys, and a key making machines. Detectives obtained an arrest warrant, charging the suspect with two counts of impersonating a police officer and acting as a locksmith without a license. He was taken into custody on April 19th and sales this week.

They are essentially the same as last week. Nothing new mega depot.com 5% off an order of $250 more on Ava's products with the code AGBU five that expires on four 30, 10% off at 3d Locksports dot com with the code PacLock 10. 15% off at Maaco locks with the code by Maaco. Also the black Friday specials page is still working and make a Lock.

So I don't know what that's about. And UK Lock picker is 10% off with the code gift. Uh, no expiration on any of those last ones, but I checked them this morning. They're all still working. Moving on to giveaways. Uh, one thing I forgot to mention is don't forget to check out se locking key on YouTube. Uh, Jason randomly does kind of games and giveaways for his viewers and he, you know, he's always entertaining on the live streams.

So, uh, I recommend you go over there and tune in every Saturday morning. If you are at all interested, you kinda gotta be there to participate. And evil archconservative is still running his hashtag leather and locks giveaway. Uh, two prize packages, one leather, one locks ends May 3rd, head over to his channel and watch leather and locks two, three, four driver giveaway.

If you're, uh, looking for the rules on that PacLock is still having his seven deadly sins. Giveaway. So head over to his channel, watch the seven deadly sins, hashtag speeds law to get the full detailed rules. But basically they're going to be two rounds. The first round winners will win one Oh seven master Lock, 68 30 fives that are all keyed identically, and they will all progress to the second round.

So head over there, check out all his rules. If you're interested. Panda-Frog has his hashtag speed Panda 1500 giveaway running until the 1st of May. So if you hurry up, you can still get entered into that and blinks his video. Like all the others will be in the show notes. Panda-Frog also has his monthly giveaways running for his challenge, coins and random locks.

So if you head over, you can check out the April rules, which are still in effect for a little while longer here. And you can check that out. His in his English, one 64 video on his channel. Don't forget to check out, uh, CLK supplies. If you're into giveaways, watch their videos every week, they do their hashtag Lock boss giveaways with some really nice prizes.

So you should heck head over there and check that out. Starrylock and pocket woman do their hashtag shout out Monday series where they shout out channels with fewer than a hundred subscribers on YouTube and try to incentivize you to go over their comment and check them out by Starrylock doing a giveaway every month for a 20 pound LA Lock tools, gift certificate.

So head over there and check out those videos. The Lock Sportscast is doing. Um, my PacLock a month giveaway currently. Um, cause I have nothing else to give away at this point. So. Uh, if you want to get entered in that, send it an information that I can use on the show. Every bit of information that gets used on the show gets an entry for the person that sends it.

Even if more than one person send it, I give every one of you an entry. So don't be afraid to send something. Even if you think somebody else has sent it anyway, he can also share the show on social media and tag me to make sure I see it. And you will get entered in the giveaway that way. Um, and if you have some service.

For the community that you are willing to set up a gift card or gift certificate for, let me know. I'd love to buy a few as options for my giveaway. Remember to send me any information you have this last part related, even if you don't think it's important or you sneak somebody else's sent it anyway, go ahead and send it to me.

It might just be the bit of info I need put together an episode, if not, no harm done, uh, as always thank you for your continued support. And please remember to support each other as well in all these times that we're having. And most of all, keep it legal.

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