Here's an interesting blip

Here's an interesting blip, from "Allston man stole bikes, locked them to Cambridge parking meters"

... detectives believe Cartagena used bolt cutters to steal the bicycles off city streets and then moved the bikes to other locations, locking them to meters and street signs with his own bike locks while he waited to sell the stolen goods.

...detectives allegedly noticed Cartagena had two sets of key rings with numerous keys on them, according to reports.... Cartagena gave police the key rings and Detective Mui used the keys to open another lock on a bike tied to a street sign in the area of Hovey and Magnolia avenues... Detective Mui told the Chronicle he walked around the area with Cartagena’s keys for several hours and was able to unlock nine more bikes.

Note the use of stash/drop spots and the fact that this guy had multiple keys and bolt cutters. There's actually a quick blip in the video that contains a shot of this guy's uber-keyring.

The multiple-keys thing doesn't pop up that often, but it would be worth looking into lock variation among manufacturers, i.e. how effective this actually is. If it were, the guy wouldn't need the bolt cutters.

Also, here's a video from wickedlocal.com:

Cambridge detectives bust thief with 12 high-end bikes from Erin Smith on Vimeo.