One Zen warrior relates this horrifying story to the network: "When I was living in Connecticut, my wife in one of her drunken rages took our daughter's baseball bat and used it to smash the locked door to my study, where I was trying desperately to meet a deadline… she is 5'2" and petite in size, so that shows what a person consumed by rage can do.
The jollity continued as the group smashed the lock on a gate 50 feet away on the same street and a frightened rooster crowed and sprinted about inside.
But a parliamentarian in Brussels said it created a rare moment of "pride in being Belgian" by "smashing the lock that has left quite a lot of women in slavery".
Stranded on the ground, Le Gris struggled as Carrouges straddled him and used his sword to smash open the lock on Le Gris' faceplate.
In January, Isis militants ransacked the Central Library of Mosul, smashing the locks and taking around 2,000 books - leaving only Islamic texts.
When my family picked up our bags from our Easter holiday in the US, we discovered that the TSA had smashed the locks off my nearly new, unlocked, Travelsentry-approved bag, taping it shut after confirming it had nothing dangerous in it, and leaving it "completely destroyed" in the words of the official BA damage report.
After James successfully smashed the customs lock, both of them stood in awed silence before the open container.
They just smash the chain off the lock and march in".
Arabella Weir, who happens to be strolling past, suggests putting a half tennis ball over the lock, "then smash it with the palm of your hand and the air pressure forces the lock up".
We smash the gate's cheap lock with a discarded pipe.
