About the master padlocks, back when I was in junior high (1976 or so), we used to throw them down onto concrete sidewalks, and they would pop open. The trick was to hold the lock upside down, so that the U-shaped latch would strike the concrete. We never could figure out how to open a lock that was actually attached to anything, though.
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About the master padlocks, back when I was in junior high (1976 or so), we used to throw them down onto concrete sidewalks, and they would pop open. The trick was to hold the lock upside down, so that the U-shaped latch would strike the concrete. We never could figure out how to open a lock that was actually attached to anything, though.