Originally Posted by
ClarkinHawaii
The thing that would piss me off most is being stranded with no way to get home after a hard day's work--I'm exhausted, I'm hungry, I've made it most of the way home (bus) and now some scumbag has left me stranded, with no clue when he might appear and set my bike free. Ten minutes? Ten hours? Ten days? Come on, that's really over the top! What exactly am I supposed to do? I'm glad I wasn't the OP, because I would have probably done something I'd later regret.
Cutting the frame of the offending bike is well within you're rights to free your property. If they used ubolts instead I would not hesitate to cut the bike of the lock, not the lock off the bike.
You found a way to do it less destructively.