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  • From: Clint Popetz <clint@cpopetz.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [permaculture] Re: permaculture Digest, Vol 15, Issue 27
  • Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 15:44:08 -0500

On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 08:43:16PM +0100, Richard Morris wrote:
> >From: Lisa MacIver <lisamaciver8@yahoo.com>
> >Subject: Re: [permaculture] Homeland Security: Barn-style
> >
> >Those U-shaped bike locks are supposed to be uncuttable.
> >
> Just a myth. It didn't take the police long to
> cut through the one rond my neck when I was chained to
> the houses of parliment. They just used a heafty bolt cutter.

I think you're talking about different things. What I call a "U-Lock,
e.g. as manufactured by Kryptonite, is a 1/2" hardened carbon-steel
alloy shackle; it's not cuttable by any bolt cutter I know of, at
least when wielded by a human being.

Angle-grinder, yes. Bolt cutter, no.

-Clint





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