Hopefully my intent could be explained to a reasonable person, as I did make a good faith effort to look for help. It was a quiet evening, about half an hour ti

Hopefully my intent could be explained to a reasonable person, as I did make a good faith effort to look for help. It was a quiet evening, about half an hour till closing time with very little business going on in the store. I didn't find any employees walking the aisles, just the guy working the register, who glibly advised me "yeah, you should probably look for somebody to unlock that" and provided no further assistance. Only after another fruitless search for such a somebody did I resort to my DIY technique. Edit: A funny side note, some months prior to this event I had been in the same store to buy a different router bit. On that occasion I did find a very helpful employee who wanted to unlock the bit for me but did not know how. He cut it off the peg with a utility knife on his belt, slicing through the plastic packaging. I was more nervous going to the cash register with that!