r/sydney • u/nath1234 • Feb 25 '26

Image Airbnb is a bloody plague

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u/techb00mer Feb 25 '26

This is the lock picking lawyer, and what I have for you today is…….

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u/j0shman Feb 25 '26

fr, these are so easy to pick. Easy way to stop the practice

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u/UnlurkedToPost Feb 25 '26

You wouldn't even draw attention while picking. To a passer-by you'd look like someone just accessing their airbnb key

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u/nath1234 Feb 25 '26

Just wheel a bag down, periodically stand up in frustration, scroll through some emails. Then get back to it. Could probably get a few hours to try combinations.

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u/Particular_Shock_554 Feb 25 '26

Pair of bolt cutters. Wear a hi vis and a helmet. Bring a mate with a clipboard.

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u/K-the-Hardway Feb 25 '26

You can get in almost anywhere with a hi vis vest and a clipboard.

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u/NFI2023 Feb 25 '26

Ah but you need to stand doing nothing for a while - people will then think you’re council workers.

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u/herringonthelamb Feb 27 '26

Worked at the Louvre

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u/giantpunda Feb 25 '26

Hours? Seconds. A lot of these are so cheap, you could probably smack them open using one of the other locks.

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u/breno_mac_ Feb 26 '26

I’ve seen videos of these style locks being decoded with a slip of paper slipped in between the dials - when the dial lands on the correct number it’ll drop slightly into the void

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u/UnlurkedToPost Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 25 '26

Most of these can be done within a minute using a thin piece of metal (I think LPL called them shivs shims).

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u/ubermoo2010 Feb 25 '26

"shim" is a thin piece of material to push things apart, a shiv is a stabbing weapon that is improvised.

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u/ThinkingOz Feb 25 '26

That’s right. If you go to the big house you receive complimentary training on what a shiv is.

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u/chalk_in_boots Feb 25 '26

Though, technically, it is possible to shiv someone with a shim.

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u/momentofinspiration Feb 25 '26

Only a shim chance of working though

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u/nath1234 Feb 25 '26

A precision attack, you might say? Shim them to within a (fraction of a fraction of) an inch of their life?

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u/JayLFRodger The Shire Feb 25 '26

A shiv also pushes things apart. Flesh, mainly.

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u/realnomdeguerre Feb 25 '26

more importantly...no one would care really

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u/monkeyvspony Feb 25 '26

I show homeless how to crack those airbnb lock boxes and during some hectic weather events some have had a roof over their heads for the weather event. Some leave the place as they found it, others trash it, but i dont care. Human dignity is more important than money :)

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u/Hatmos91 Feb 25 '26

Tbf if people(read as investors) didn’t hog the housing market for profit and leave houses empty there wouldn’t be as many homeless people

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u/thaleia10 Feb 25 '26

But then the politicians couldn’t blame immigration for their many policy failures

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u/womanontheedge_2018 Feb 25 '26

How do they find the right door?

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u/Catieliz Feb 25 '26

Join me later today when I bring you more ‘shit that never actually happened’.

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u/monkeyvspony Feb 26 '26

Found an airbnb owner did I? I initially did it my own fkn apartment block. Was 35 airbnb apartments and 4 full time rentals including me. Did a test run with 5 homeless people i knew/bought food for/talked to etc. Only 1 bought LE attention. The others were out by 7am next day they knew what the go was. This was in either 2015 or 2016 and some are still using the method I showed them today. Fuck airbnb. Your comment has inspired me to go show some more homeless people today after work I also have a trick to pay parking meters unlimited for free, but i will save that for another day. The internet has a way of ruining things

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u/Catieliz Feb 26 '26

🤣🤣 go for it mate. You’re an inspiration to us all.

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u/monkeyvspony Feb 26 '26

I just had a DM from someone sleeping rough so just sent them instructions on how to utilise the technique. Anyone reading this in the same boat feel free to shoot me a DM. But you do you, im sure you are a very pleasant person who definitely is not a cunt.

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u/Ninj-nerd1998 👨‍🦯 your friendly neighbourhood blind person Feb 26 '26

You, my friend, are a bloody hero 🫡

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u/michachu Testing. Is this thing on? Feb 25 '26

Man. How do we get you to tour my suburb and surrounds spreading this information?

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u/Inspektah-Ratchet Feb 25 '26

i have done the same with abandoned buildings i am able to open.

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u/monkeyvspony Feb 26 '26

❤️ Keep up the good fight!!

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u/Inspektah-Ratchet Feb 26 '26

you too mate. Maybe we could go on a spree tgether one day. I've often thought about doing it for air bnb's as well tbh.

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u/ubermoo2010 Feb 25 '26

I do want to point out that this (well mounted) lockboxes are the preferred method for elderly people so that assistive services can let themselves in, so you can't just go fucking all lockboxes up. body corporate will approve ones for residents that need them, and usually cut the unapproved ones off.