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AMSTERDAM People of this free-spirited Dutch city, known for its legal prostitution and easy marijuana, have found another pastime that flirts with convention and the law: picking locks.
On a recent Wednesday evening, Jos Weyers sat hunched over a magnifying glass studying the contours of a key that was taking shape as he filed away at it. Across the table, Jos Meyer sat picking at a standard front-door lock with a set of tools that looked for all the world like a collection of slender dental instruments, painted black.
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About 15 of the members, including Mr. Weyers, met recently around a long rectangular table piled high with boxes of locks in an artists’ cooperative on the east side of Amsterdam. Ms. Meyer (Jos is a unisex name in Dutch) is not a member, but her friend Marco Zuiderveld has been for the last six years, and she accompanies him occasionally to the club’s meetings.
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Now, the authorities are more philosophical. “There’s been no increase in break-ins,” said Arnout Aben, a spokesman for the Amsterdam police, when asked how they viewed the club.
See the full article from “New York Times”
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