Originally Posted by JoeyBike

HA!

I have good friends at a local bike shop in New Orleans. They rent bikes and supply KryptoniteŽ Locks with each rental. Sometimes, customers lose the key. The bike shop does not always have a spare key (because that one was lost by a previous customer). So one or two shop employees have to go and break the lock to retrieve the rental bike - almost always locked in a high foot traffic area.

Guess what? No one has ever (read as NEVER) said one word to the guy driving the power tool through a U-lock. Not once. Not a cop, security guard, civilian, other bikers, NOBODY.

Sorry to disappoint you further.