How to escape from Zip ties

YouTube link. 

Frankly, I didn't know it was possible to get them off without a sharp cutting instrument - much less to do so this easily.  This is one of a substantial number of related videos that can be searched on YouTube.

Posted not for the purposes of helping malefactors escape from appropriate arrest (because they're not going to be reading this blog and they probably know this anyway), but for anyone else who has worries about what to do if bad guys invade your home or apartment and zip-tie-restrain you and your family and they're in the next room stealing your stuff and you think they're going to murder you or worse before they leave...