this is crazy...

there's a place where i do volunteer work a few nights a week. i lock my bike in front when i'm there, and i leave a couple of locks on the rack when i'm not there.

1- Kryptonite M-18 (Kryptonite's biggest & heaviest U-lock)
2- 8mm square-link hardened chain w/ Abus 82/70 Monoblock (the 82/70 has a brass body, but hardened steel rods in it make it hard to cut)

for wellington, i've always considered these locks to be stupidly on the side of paranoid... but i've got them, so i used them - i just don't carry them around with me. even my NY-STD is a ridiculously huge lock, by local standards.

last week i left the locks there monday night. i pulled up weds evening, and THE LOCKS WERE GONE

the landlord/property manager says it wasn't him. none of the tenants know anything. there are no security cameras in the area.

this sucks!
1- i'm feeling violated that someone took the locks.
2- it makes no sense. maybe someone cut the Abus lock and made use of the chain, but there's no way to remove the M-18 without destroying it.
3- i'm now paranoid about leaving my bike there.
4- i'm now paranoid about leaving locks there.
5- replacing these locks will not be cheap (in NZ).

with normal hand tools, someone would just destroy the tools. with "special" hand tools, it would take a few hours. with the right power tools, it would take 10-20 minutes, but consume at least $30NZ of cutting tools.

if someone stole my bike, it would suck, but at least it would make sense... stealing these locks?!?!? aside from sucking (see above) it just leaves me scratching my head.

i still think the landlord/property manager thought the locks were abandoned, but doesn't want to own-up to it, since he didn't talk to the tenants first. but, there's a retail shop that faces the bike racks, and no one there saw anything. so i'm thinking it was done at night, and i'm not sure if the landlord/property manager would've been out there at night.

the whole thing is just weird. and stressful. and costly. and sucks.