Bobby Pin (Fallout 3)

The bobby pin is a miscellaneous item in Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas. It replaces the lock picks from Fallout and Fallout 2.

Characteristics
A flexible double-pronged hairpin, made of metal or plastic, normally used to hold hair in place. It can also be used for lockpicking.

Fallout 3

 * In merchants' inventories.
 * On the dead bodies of feral ghouls, raiders, and other enemies.
 * On tables inside intact houses across the Capital Wasteland.
 * In first aid boxes.
 * In safes or other places where one has to pick the lock. They will usually be replenished if two or three have been broken.
 * In some cash registers. There are several cash registers in the subbasement of the National Archives.
 * In Amata's room during the quests Escape! and Trouble on the Homefront.
 * In ant refuse piles.
 * Directly west of Rockbreaker's Last Gas, on top of a large cliff, there's an abandoned shack. Inside the shack, there are approximately 14-20 bobby pins on the bedside table near the Average locked ammunition box.
 * Lying next to corpses/skeletons (they look like match-stick boxes).
 * Inside Evergreen Mills foundry, there are several dressers, each containing three bobby pins, along with various bottles of alcohol.
 * In Calvert Mansion at least ten bobby pins can be found in wardrobes around the house.
 * In the supply plant of the steelyard there is an Average locked door with six steel ingots inside. In front of the door, there are multiple packs of bobby pins.
 * On the bodies of trogs around the Pitt steelyard.

Fallout: New Vegas

 * Sold by Blake, who is located in front of the Crimson Caravan main office.
 * Sold at Miguel's Pawn Shop in Westside.
 * Sold by Old Lady Gibson at the Gibson scrap yard.
 * Located beside the Gun Runners, there is a small group of houses where two bobby pins are stashed in each mailbox.
 * Inside the Vault 22 living quarters, in the dressers.
 * On the dead bodies of feral ghouls and other enemies.
 * In some first aid boxes and cash registers.
 * On some shelves inside closets. They are hard to spot but most shelves have one or two.
 * Vault 3 has a large abundance of them in most first aid boxes and in the recreation area.
 * Inside the Goodsprings schoolhouse, on a shelf.
 * In the Nipton Town Hall, a box of ten can be found on a shelf in the mayor's office.
 * Ten total on the shelf inside and behind the counter of the Dino Bite gift shop.
 * At least three at Camp Golf, in one of the bedrooms of the House Resort, on top of a dresser.