I was completely turned off by the stench of human waste. Hustlers, vagrants, pickpockets every 10 meters.
Then we checked into our 375 a night “boutique hotel” and when we got in, there was a 14 inch pool of blood on the carpet and blood splatters / bloody-fingerprints all over the walls. Like somebody was murdered with a bowling trophy a couple hours prior.
The trip did not get better from there.


This is not a criticism, because in some ways I appreciate the insanity of this LOL
But I would just grind the top of the lock loop, and get a tungsten carbide drill bit and blast it out. Clink, open. With a bench vise and a grinder and the right bit, this is like a 3 minute job.