TIP: BREAKING IN

In this quick “TIP” you will learn how to properly break into a building without raising alarm.

If you are reading in continuation from "STEP NINE", you are just about to break into a local, small business. You are there to get supplies: Food, water, appliances, etc. But you don’t want to raise awareness to yourself. You need to break in, without being heard by zombies, or even worse, humans. If you are loud, someone might hear you, watch what you’re doing, and then once you have done all the heavy lifting, they’ll come up to you, point a gun in your face and force you to give them all your findings. You don’t want that. So you need to be SAS and infiltrate stealthily.

If you can pick a lock, great! See if that will work, but chances are it won’t: most businesses that lock up at night and go home, have better security than just a lock. Some places might have a few locks behind the door, as well as on the front.  Picking the front lock might not be enough. You will have to break a window.

Don’t be a dumbass and throw a brick into the window and jump in. That is loud. And people/zombies will come for you.

To break in properly you will need duct tape and a blunt object, like a brick or baseball bat. A brick would be the best.

First: find the smallest section of glass on the building. If you are going through the side window, pick one that is big enough for someone to climb into it. If you are going in the front door, only use the glass on the door, or at least close enough to stick your hand in and unlock the door.

Second: once you find your section of glass, cover it with duct tape. The smaller the glass, the less duct tape you use, and the easier it is to handle. Cover the section in two layers: going vertically and horizontally. Attach it to the window frame and leave a lip on the edge so you can peel it off.

Third: with your blunt object, lightly hit the window until you can hear it crack. Lightly, don’t hit heavy. Once you hear it crack, continue to tap the sides of the window until all the glass seems like it cracked off.

Fourth: slowly peel the tape off the window: the glass should still be stuck on the glass.

And there you go! Now you have opened the window without making any noise! You can now enter the building and loot!

Continue to “STEP TEN”.