I believe the laughing face makes it clearly a joke.......... and I think you have taken it out of context.
I don't want my comments to be taken as a critique of your initial post where you clearly find lockpicking interesting, or to imply that in someway you might be a crook who would use lockpicks to further your criminal enterprise,,,,,,
I was trying to tell people that although interesting, and perhaps kind of fun to use, lockpicks COULD BE ILLEGAL TO POSSESS even if you are not using them to burglarize/steal.
I hope I have sufficiently explained myself . . . . . . . .