KeithTyler
Since: Oct, 2011
Feb 22nd 2018 at 3:34:02 PM
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Yeah, if the door opens inwards, and there's any play in the hinge or gap between the latch position and the moulding, you can pop open the average door with a credit card, knife, bent piece of metal, what have you. Which is why you should install a manual bolt lock and not depend solely on a latch, which's main purpose is to keep the door closed from wind.
A surprising number of locks still can be jimmied with a plastic card, and a credit card will work much of the time, although it will often be damaged in the process. Including the lock on my own front door.
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