When people think about padlocks and security, they think about criminals trying to crack the combination or break the padlock open or simply cutting it off with bolt cutters.  That is, they think about defeating the padlock.

Not too many people think about the far easier thing you can do with a padlock.  The denial of service attack.  Padlock somebody's gate closed and throw away the key.  That is also a security issue, super easy, and nearly impossible to defend against.  I don't even know what to do with this thought other than to keep it in my arsenal of civil disobedience techniques along side things like removing the valve stems from someone's tires. 

 *Orders bolt cutters* 

 i had a boomer glue my windshield wipers to the the windshield once as revenge for me cutting him off while looking for parking next to my house. 

 The possibilities to vandalize in your community are endless. We are a high trust society everywhere in some sense. 

 Whenever I cross a crosswalk I think about how easy it would be to run me over.  Defense is far harder than offense, and we rely on consequences to disincentivize bad behavior.  That works only in so much as someone isn't insane, and isn't willing to die themselves in order to kill you (e.g. a suicide bomber).

High value targets have to avoid being seen in public. 

 Yeah, it's quite a journey from being a careless kid to actually thinking about stuff like that and I'm not even talking about targeted attacks. Just not to walk near fast cars or generally defensive driving etc. And sometimes also

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u-XIjXS98Q