![]() ![]() They then proceeded to aimlessly try and cut through the walls and the door of the safe but apparently ran out of discs for the angle grinder (there were 8 used up dimaond discs lying around) and gave up, abandoning the safe which is a shame considering how much more they could have spent on trying to open up an empty safe. Those clown had tried to cut the safe open with an angle grinder, thinking that cutting off the hinges would open the door which of course it didn't. My father gets called by the police or building security and they show him the footage, request documents for the safe and all that.įast forward 2 days the police call my father because they found the safe on a piece of abandoned/unused property in the industry district. Knowing they couldn't crack it before the police arrived they loaded it onto the boards with one guy apparently crushing his foot in the process (he was limping on the way out) and made their escape. So one night a group of 5 people equipped with some kind of heavy duty roller boards broke into the office (all of this was caught on security cameras) and went straight for the safe. It wasn't a small one either and weighed around 1.5 metric tons I'd say. My father ran a business that often handled large amounts of cash (half a million a week wasn't unusual) and thus one he had purchased a safe for around 20k Euro. Since the correct answer (good safes take a long time to open unless you are willing to risk destroying the contents) has already been provided I will now tell an anecdote about safes: That's what it takes to get inside a $150 safe. I destroyed every paper inside and got the keys. It didn't take too long before I was able to cut the bottom open (figured if any part was the thinnest, I would be the least accessible part). What finally got it was an oxyacetylene torch with a cutting torch. I packed about a pound of gunpowder on the hinge side and lit it. I dropped it ~100 feet onto a rock and it just got dented and paint chipped. I resorted to explosions, blunt impact, and the like. I'm sure a professional could get in with the right tools, but I didn't have the right tools. There was some sort of hole under it about 6mm in diameter that looked like a sight hole, but I couldn't make anything of it. I started by cutting off the plastic trim to reveal as much of the locking mechanism as possible. I gave up and decided to try and bust it open for the hell of it. I spent the better part of a week trying combinations, but seeing as how I didn't know if it had a 3 or 4 digit combination, I was kind of screwed. They gave it to me because it didn't ship with instructions or a combination and the backup key is shipped INSIDE the safe. I got if from the hardware store I worked at back in the day. It was a mechanical combination lock with a backup key. ![]()
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