Zips and spies

[Michael Chare]

I have been wondering about the spy in a bag with the locked zip.

Putting the padlock on to the two zip fasteners after closing the zips might be difficult from the inside.

However it appears from the pictures I have seen that the two zip fasteners would move along the zip when locked together.

So could the spy have put the lock on the zips whilst outside the bag, forced the zip open between a zip fastener and the end, climbed in the back and then perhaps with some difficult slid the fasteners along the zip to close it, and then back to the middle position?

It might not be easy but the spy was a slender keen cyclist, so possibly quite strong.

[Bill]

In message , Michael Chare writes

Now if you had said this in another newsgroup I read, 49% of the responses would have said it was a motorist that did it, 49% would have denied that cyclists ever did anything wrong and 2% would have posted something totally different and tried to change the thread.

[Bill]

In message , Bill writes

Re-reading this I see I totally porked it...........

Possibly the 2nd 49% would have said it was typical of cyclists.

I'll shut up now and make a note to read what I write before hitting send.

[Jonathan]

According to my paper, an escapologist tried 200 times and could not do it.

Jonathan

[mike]

And he calls himself an escapologist...?

In another paper, he was described as a "yoga expert".

[Squashme]

I liked it anyway.

[Andy Burns]

On TV he was a "confined spaces expert"

[ss]

With the bag empty undo a small section of the seam, put the padlock on and lock it, turn the bag inside out via the undone seam, sit the inside out bag on top of head and pull down over body, then you are now inside the locked bag and are only required to restitch the seam. Job done.

[geoff]

Well, that's where he was found ...

[Unbeliever]

I quite enjoyed the sarcasm though Bill, and you would be quite right in what you actually posted - no matter how things turn out, it's *NEVER* the cyclists fault (according to them anyway).

[Andy Burns]

No, not the spook, the person trying to reproduce the trick ...

[newshound]

Perhaps it was a moebius bag: went straight in via the fourth dimension....

[djc]

If it was the kind with two zips each with a hole on the end to take a padlock I would have thought it possible. There would be small gap between the two zips when closed with the ends brought together to fit he padlock. I assume the padlock is the normal self-latching type. So the trick bit is putting the lock staple through the two zip-ends and the pressing the lock against a surface to lock it.

[grimly4]

Perhaps he farts in lifts.

[Jonathan]

Different person

Jonathan

[Richard]

Schrodinger's spy.

[mogga]

Maybe he spent years practicing the technique until he could do it, but failed to think through the effect of being inside a locked bag...

[grimly4]

It doesn't take much these days, with the low standard of journalism we've come to expect.