Sliding underneath the truck with my bag of tools I'd brought from home, I found the alarm wire and cut it before using a slim jim to open the door.

A $2 screwdriver or a "slim jim," a sliver of steel that slips between a car window and door, usually gets thieves past the door lock, or else they'll break a window.

One time, using his slim jim, he opened the car of a self-assured young woman who lived on a luxurious Manhattan block.

Eventually a fellow named Roberto arrives in a white tow truck, slim jim in hand.

"The passenger-side door was opened with a slim jim," Clapper told us.

He was no slim Jim either.

A chorus of encouraging shouts burst out for him, and one brave voice flung out a heartening word for me - said: "Go it, slim Jim!"

He unfolded his flat steel slim Jim and slid it down into the door above the lock.

It has been reported that in modern vehicles there is a chance for setting off the side airbag deployment system of the vehicle, possibly causing injury to a person attempting to use a slim jim.

He saw himself walking about the grounds watching the sports in Clongowes and eating slim jim out of his cricket cap.