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I locked my bike to a short bollard using a cable lock once. It was very easy to lift over the bollard but I was sitting RIGHT BESIDE it the whole time it was there. A drug addict saw it and went crazy!! he started shouting obscenities about the fking wker that locked their bike like that. He blamed the country's financial decline on people who would leave their bike in such an un-secure manner. He made quite a scene, many people stopped to listen to his rant. Not knowing it was mine he looked for my support in his hatred of me, (I was forced to agree with him). Needless to say I waited till he and everybody watching had gone until i sheepishly retrieved my bike. I never did it again.