No bonus points for accomplishing anything the hard way.
Thermite.
We should just resign ourselves to the fact there are gangs who have bought off the police and judges, armed with AK47s and MLG-140s cruising around in vans filled with acetylene torches, hydraulic bolt cutters, dewar flasks of liquid nitrogen and SouthOrd Max lock picks and they have a jones for
your Varsity.
Maybe that's why cops don't like going into gang neighborhoods? Wow, you may be onto something!
Besides, just wrap a thin amount of C4 around the shackle and stand back.