Bobby Pin (Fallout 3)

The bobby pin 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. After the Great War its use also includes lockpicking.

Fallout 3

 * In merchant's inventories.
 * On the dead bodies of feral ghouls, raiders, and other enemies.
 * On the bodies of trogs around the Pitt steelyard.
 * On tables inside intact houses across the Wasteland.
 * In first aid boxes.
 * In safes or other places where one has to pick the lock. They will usually be replenished if 2 or 3 have been broken.
 * In some cash registers. There are several cash registers in the sub-basement 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.
 * 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 6 steel ingots inside. In front of the door, there are multiple packs with bobby pins.
 * Lying next to corpses/skeletons. (They look like match-stick boxes)
 * Inside Evergreen Mills Foundry, there are several dressers, each containing 3, along with various bottles of alcohol.

Fallout: New Vegas

 * A Crimson Caravan merchant, Blake, sells them.
 * They can be bought at Miguel's Pawn Shop located in New Vegas Westside.
 * Old Lady Gibson sells them at the Gibson scrap yard.
 * Located beside the Gun Runners, there is a small town where 2 bobby pins are stashed in each mailbox.
 * Vault 22 quarters, just search the dressers, and one will find around 5 of them.
 * On the dead bodies of feral ghouls and other enemies.
 * In some first aid boxes.
 * In safes or other places where one has to pick the lock. They will usually be replenished if 2 or 3 have been broken.
 * In some 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 Nipton Hall a box of 10 can be found on a shelf in the Mayor's office.
 * On the shelf inside and behind the counter of the Dino Bite gift shop (10 total).
 * At least 3 at Camp Golf, in one of the bedrooms of the House Resort, on top of a dresser.