You get what you pay for

This video shows a reformed ex-bicycle thief in the Netherlands. We’ll call him Fritz, but that’s not his real name.

Anyway, the premise of the film is to show you just how easy it is to break into most cheep bike locks - in this case less than €30 each. We’re talking times as low as ten seconds, with only basic tools:

The lessons from this? Well, as the man says at the end, “I simply advise you to buy a more expensive lock”.