Yesterday I rode my bike to work and locked it up as usual. Nothing seemed different than any other day. My day had a complication though- I had to ride the bike home in the middle of the day and then walk back as I had an evening meeting and I didn't want to ride home after that as it is too dark. So my plan was to ride home, take the laundry in, have a bite of dinner and then head back into work.
However, when I arrived at my bike to head home and turned the lock, it felt like nothing happened. So I thought maybe it got stuck so I pushed the lock in and pulled it but nothing changed with what the key was doing. It seemed fully stuck. So I went to find someone with bolt cutters in my building and he tried the key- the key turns but nothing happens. So he took the bolt cutters and within 5 seconds my bike was free. Clearly if a serious thief wanted to steal my bike it wouldn't have taken them long despite what looked like a hefty lock. However, my bike is very old so hopefully not a good target. The lock seemed to have internally combusted and the innards just were no good anymore. The lock was about 25 years old so not unexpected I guess. Just the bike outlasted the lock!
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