Woah! They had a hack saw, but didn't have an allen wrench? Or just didn't care to take the time. Thieves these days... It's not like when I was a kid. Back then men were men and thieves removed the hacked off piece of handlebar from the levers they were flogging on ebay.
Campag brake levers - absolutely, postively, definitely not hack-sawed off some poor sod's bike.