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07-21-06, 10:32 PM
The girlfriend and I go out to Chipotle to eat some food, come back to the bikes and my lock will NOT open. We must have tried the combination like 50 times. I use one of those krypto cable locks and a normal masterlock with a combination. We start to walk home and stop at the hardware store and the guy recommends a hacksaw. At first I think... no way a hacksaw will go through the hardened steel lock. He convinces me otherwise. Get back to the bikes $4.25 later and the hacksaw certainly will not go through the lock. But with a good 15 minutes of hacking away at the cable lock (bunch of twisted wire cable) we have our bikes free.
The bikes were locked to a light post on a fairly heavily used intersection. We asked 2 different set of cops what to do, all of which were eating at Chipotle also. They said they didn't have anything, and to go to walmart and buy a bolt cutter. Turns out walmart doesn't have bolt cutters. In 15 minutes of sawing not a single person said anything, but you certainly get some goofy looks sawing through a cable with 2 cop cars just around the corner. I told both groups of cops that I'd be out there sawing, they said they'd make sure not to respond if they got a call about a bike thief in front of Chipotle. Hacksaws make your arm tired. Use something else if you're gonna steal bikes, that's for sure.
The bikes were locked to a light post on a fairly heavily used intersection. We asked 2 different set of cops what to do, all of which were eating at Chipotle also. They said they didn't have anything, and to go to walmart and buy a bolt cutter. Turns out walmart doesn't have bolt cutters. In 15 minutes of sawing not a single person said anything, but you certainly get some goofy looks sawing through a cable with 2 cop cars just around the corner. I told both groups of cops that I'd be out there sawing, they said they'd make sure not to respond if they got a call about a bike thief in front of Chipotle. Hacksaws make your arm tired. Use something else if you're gonna steal bikes, that's for sure.