yea, I tried that for a couple of hours, with bobby pins, paper clips, and anything else I could find. the position you gotta be in to work the lock was back breaking as well.
like everything else on our cars, the lock cylinder is small, no room to get anything around the broken key to grab anything.
the locksmith had to use this tool that looked like a wire, he would insert the wire into the groove on the key, then twist the tool which would somehow grab the key. took him a good 45 minutes of trying and almost giving up before getting the key out.
i'm just glad this episode is over !!