Is it possible? Sure. Is it likely? Of course not. Id love to know how many New York Locks are cut through with an angle grinder in public each year. I’d say less than a dozen, nationwide. I mean, maybe in a dimly lit place at night. But even then, you’re waking up all the neighbors.

I’d much rather trust an inch and half of hardened steel than trashing my own bike in the hopes that someone finds it distasteful.