- I never actually tried to take one of these off before.
Whoa!
This is one of those really annoying security tags
that you have on your clothes, whenever you're shopping,
and you're trying on clothes, and these are on here.
Or, maybe you're one of those people
that actually stole a shirt and you've got this on there.
These are the security tags,
supposedly they are full of ink--
- They are? - And if you try
to take them off, ink will come off on them, on you.
And it will ruin the shirt or the pants
that you tried to steal.
- So --
- Or, that you accidentally take home.
- I didn't even know that they had ink inside of them.
- Yeah, you just thought they were plastic?
- I just thought they were, like, little security tags.
So like, I thought there was like a little chip in there
so that the people from the store could go and find you.
- Hmm.
- That's what I thought.
- So, here's what we're gonna do.
I'm gonna put one on your shirt.
- What?
- We're going to test it out here.
(upbeat music)
- So right now we have nine of these tags on Lincoln.
- Woah, you can see ink inside of some of them,
like this one, that's cool.
- They do look cool.
All right, so we got all of these on here.
Let's try taking it off with this knife.
- No, this is gonna, like...
I'm scared.
- I know, I've never actually tried
to take one of these off before.
- I don't want it to get in my eye --
- Oh!
- Don't.
- Oh my gosh.
- It's blue!
- Oh my gosh look at that.
- That's nasty.
- Got blue ink dripping, don't let it drip on
the carpet, Lincoln.
- That's not coming off.
Already.
- Ink is already dried up on some of the other things.
(cracking)
- Oh! - Oh, it's green now!
- We got green.
- What?
Two different colors?
- [Dan] This one you can see on the outside,
has yellow and purple on it
and I'm gonna try to puncture it
and see what happens.
What's inside of security ink tags?
- Oh! - We're finding out.
- How are we gonna get this of ourselves?
I feel like it's gonna take so long.
- Don't try this at home, kids.
- Really safe. - I am a professional.
- Look at this shirt.
What about this one?
This one is different too.
- So we've pretty much wrecked Lincoln's shirt
and we've shown that this is not good
and you can't just pull them off yourself.
It is dangerous, the ink goes everywhere
and your shirt or your pants are wrecked.
Did you just do it yourself?
Oh, it exploded, look!
The red exploded inside of it.
- [Lincoln] No.
Oh wait, oh yeah it did!
- Oh you're ripping it through the shirt!
Okay so Lincoln just pulled it out of his shirt.
- I got it out, now there's a hole in my shirt.
- All right so hopefully we have proven to you
that these things are very difficult to take apart,
unless you have the right tools.
We went onto Ebay and we were able to buy...
Hold on a second.
(rustling in background)
- I don't even know...
(loud rattling)
- This many.
I bought all of these from somebody
that has a store somewhere in America
and she sold them all and she said "I hope"
"this works for you, it helped with my store"
"when I had it".
And it came with this little metal magnet thing.
- What does that do?
- As soon as they wanna do it --
- Do you put this inside?
- And then pick it up.
- That totally works.
- See how easy that is?
- This thing's sharp!
- Yeah. - Whoa.
You could just use a magnet.
(Lincoln sneezing)
- So we have way too many of these little security ink tags.
Lincoln has shown that it definitely puts ink out
if you try to get it off.
Get out of that shirt, let's get you in a different shirt.
- Destroyed, okay.
- So while Lincoln is changing,
before we take apart the security ink tags,
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Why would you do that?
Well, supposedly, silver acts as a micro...
Microbial, microbal?
I'll put it on the screen here with the definition.
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Yes! - There's so many.
- It's time to see what's inside of this.
I think we go with the one that's
a more common looking exterior with this hard plastic.
That's what most people see.
First we're gonna take it in the little magnet thing.
And boom.
And somehow inside of here,
it grabs it hard enough that it won't come off,
unless you use this magnet to get it off.
There's no like little ledges
or any grippy things on this,
so whatever's going on is happening in here.
What is it?
That is moving.
Feel like we can get inside of it.
(quiet techno music)
Good job, Mr. Magnet.
(Lincoln laughing)
(loud banging)
- This thing's pretty strong.
We went through three tools already.
What is that?
Ooh!
That's working.
(loud sawing)
(Dan sighing)
- I think we need to be a little more...
(heavy banging)
Okay, that was successful, I smashed it.
Something fell out.
I'm gonna do it again.
(heavy banging)
Yeah!
Here we go.
- You didn't even hit that one that hard.
- I barely even hit it and it popped out so --
- [Lincoln] Nothing, yeah.
- [Dan] This is what happens.
- [Lincoln] What, there's a spring?
- [Dan] The top comes off.
It does have a spring inside of it.
Whoa!
- A little like bell looking thing.
- [Dan] This right here is one of the bell parts
and the three little balls are on the side of it.
And that sits inside of here with the balls
that are down in it.
And when the magnet comes on the back side of it,
it's pulling this off, see the three balls?
There we go.
Right now it doesn't come off.
If I grab this metal part...
Boom.
- [Lincoln] What?
- It comes out.
It's just these three little metal bearing balls.
You good?
- Each one of the security tags have
a little pin on the top with little grooves in it
so you can't pull it out which is crazy,
'cause they're like little balls
and you can't even pull with your hands.
- Just simply comes out and it's the spring.
- Some people that invent stuff,
they're just so smart.
- It's so simple. - It's so simple.
- Yet genius.
Scientists are so smart.
Engineering, mechanical engineers,
the way they figure stuff out like this.
How does it puncture and make this explode?
So this metal pin right here goes all the way through
to the back side of it.
When you pull on it too hard,
this metal circle goes in and it punctures the glass.
Both of the glass -- - Wait, wait,
that's glass?
(quiet popping)
- [Lincoln] Oh, look at that.
- [Dan] That is some black ink right there.
- [Lincoln] Don't, that's gonna stain that.
- I just remembered that this house is a rental,
and it's gonna be there for a while.
That's a lot more ink that I thought would be on there.
That is pretty wild.
I don't think I got it on my nice Mack Weldon shirt.
The nail, the three little bearing balls,
this is incredibly interesting
and great engineering and I feel like we solved it.
That's what's inside of a security tag.
I hope you guys enjoyed this video.
We made a big mess and I'm gonna go
and try to clean off both my hands and the concrete.
And Lincoln's shirt is a goner, sorry buddy.
- Sad.
- At least we got you some new cool shirts,
some Mack Weldon shirts.
- It's good.
(loud thudding)
Ooh, boy!
(beeping)
- People were gonna steal stuff,
and they just got this thing,
it'd be so easy to take off these security things.
You could just go into the dressing room
and like...
Which we, again, do not recommend.
- Don't do that.
Two different colors?
- Scientists are so smart.
(Dan sighing)