UPDATE: will be trying the various defaults (“50 50 50”) and commonly-chosen combinations tonight
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I’m rubbing my hands together with delight!
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And what of the tiny dolls that live inside?
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$5 on one of these:
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I wonder how many human heads are in there
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ANOTHER Lance on steroids?
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I’m wondering if this will have a fake vintage bottle and JLW’s favorite deck of cards.
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It will contain a cat. Whether the cat is alive or dead will depend.
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And in the post-apocalyptic waste-land, those bricks will be just as useful as real gold. Similar nutritional value, stout projectile, possibly more useful if there are flint-lock rifles and bullet molds to be had. I know modern weapons are preferred, but eventually, it’s gonna be all about the flints, and that weird old guy who does reenactments and primitive hunting? He’s gonna be a valuable resource.
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Safes all the way down?
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Only until it gets to the turtles.
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It didn’t go so well for the contents (or the safe) the last time they tried opening a safe. Water damage plus explosive damage plus smoke in a new house doesn’t sound like such a great idea.
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You’re absolutely right, I had that backwards. I reread that section of Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman last night, and I had remembered it wrong. On re-reading, I also saw that Feynman found the hint about looking for nearby notes jotted down by reading books about safecracking, but he’d come up with his own set of tricks for figuring out the last digit or two on various types of locks, especially when he could feel the motion of the locks when they were already open, and using that to shorten the number of combinations to try.
But I had remembered correctly how both he and the locksmith each thought the other must be a brilliant safecracker, and it turned out all they had was a bunch of different tricks they’d each figured out for themselves. Fun book.
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Make sure you try 25-0-25 and 50-25-50.
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Clearly, you can never open it. The contents can’t be worth more than the mystery.
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I remember the film. Yes, there was no leak plugging in the film, but they were filling the safe from the sprinkler system, so they could have just left the water running. The underwater explosion and collapse looked real, and I thought at the time ‘that ought to work’. And they were rescuing a sceptre in a piano leg, and it would still be worth something if it got bashed about a bit. It’s nice to see films can get something mostly right, sometimes.
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You might have missed the part where cutting the hole destroyed everything in the safe…
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Of course, since even found windfalls are subject to income tax, the safe is guaranteed to be cough"empty"cough…
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Some safes are designed to permanently lock themselves, or otherwise mess with you when drilled or breached in certain ways. As much as that seems to be a modern thing, I’ve seem some pretty old safes with features of that sort. At flea-markets, in antique shops, on the teevees, and assorted other media. Along with crazy booby traped safes, safes with fake doors and false bottoms etc. Vintage security equipment is varied and delightfully weird. I would really doubt this would be that sort of safe though. From the picture it looks to be a pretty bog standard sort of American home/business safe. My concern was more with amateur drilling causing unintended damage. Or what sort of reduction in value might come with that little hole. I would imagine that to collectors a safe that’s been professionally drilled is worth less than a safe that’s in pristine working order.
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