You and Ziemas are both wrong, it does happen in the real world and is on the increase, in fact in Japan it has sharply increased. Problem is you guys live in the make pretend world that nothing bad is going to happen because you locked your bike up with this or that lock. Fact is that picking is slowly becoming the way to steal bikes because the locks made today have become more and more difficult to break without a sizeable tool that will make a thief stand out. All one has to do is to use their brain as to what a pro thief is going to start doing, It's just as easy, if not easier and at least way cheaper, to learn to pick locks as to carry an assortment of lock destroyers to cover whatever they'll encounter.

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