Originally Posted by Bikewer

Although there was that huge internet scare over the bic-pen thing.... We did not have one single theft during that period, and all the locks we had out at the time were of the "shunt-key" variety that you could supposedly pick. We are talking about many hundreds of these locks.
Again, not one stolen bike.
I still think the whole thing was an internet hoax. I and one of the other officers tried for some hours to open several different types of Kryptonite locks with such pens... No luck at all.
Kryptonite paid out a lot of money replacing these locks, which says something for the company.