Originally Posted by
crawdaddio
And what empirical proof do you require? Some report of a bike locked up with a gold rated lock being stolen posted by some guy to the internet? As I said I have neither the time or inclination to search this out for you. I already know it happens.
And what happened before the internet existed? Nothing could be proven? Cummon........
You are just being difficult for the sake of being difficult.
Truth: It happens, regardless of whether or not you choose to believe it.
I am done responding to you unless you have some kind of valid, rational questions that I could help you with.
To everyone who has asked serious questions and posted helpful information on this thread, I thank you and you're welcome.
I hope that I have helped at least someone out there.
I never said it didn't happen at all; what I did say is that it doesn't happen with any regularity at all, and certianly not enough be worried about. If it happened the people who had their bikes stolen would be screaming about it, yet no one is.
The last time I came across someone like you sowing lock paranoia I posted a poll asking about people's locks and if they had a bike stolen while using one. Lot's of people posted stolen bike stories, but no one posted any details about high-end locks being defeated. With over 100,000 users worldwide here on BF if this was a problem facing the biking community you'd think we'd hear about it.