Random coin shop story
Farmer_Bill
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New forum. Ill start with a random coin shop story.
About 1967 my father had interest in a small coin shop. Probably only about 200 square feet of showroom. The owner found a giant double door safe that was locked with no combination available. They set it right in the center behind the counter and put the shops name in big letters across the front. His theory was if someone would break into the shop they would assume the good stuff was in the safe. As time went on and I as a kid had spent countless hours messing with the double dials everyone was becoming more and more curious about what was in the safe. The guy that ran the business next door had an idea. " If we just drill here,here, and here the safe will open. They put that plan in motion one afternoon. Keep in mind this was an old safe probably manufactured in the 20s or 30s. On their first attempt to drill the locks they drilled into a pressurized chamber of tear gas. Cleared the shop out for several days getting the place aired out.
Memories from my childhood.
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I imagine a safe full of tear gas was the talk of the town in 1967.
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That's a great story.
I don't blame the guys for wanting to know what was in it, but having it as a decoy safe was a great strategy.
Reminds me of one of my exploits at Oktoberfest in Munich years ago. They have security guards at the doors at the end of the night looking for people trying to steal the one-liter beer mugs. I had my overcoat draped over my arm with a mug hidden underneath. Well, they found that mug, as I expected they would. But they missed the second mug buried even deeper under my coat.
A sacrificial decoy can be very effective sometimes. 😃
theres a story of a guy who since passed on they cleared out his house to put up for sale. along with his coins and stuff this person had 80,000 rounds of 22 ammo down stairs. if that place ever caught fire (thank God it didnt) it be a big hole in the ground
I think Gsaguy had over 100 Mohawk rifles.
Having a big safe without the combination in a coin shop is very dangerous. A couple of crackheads could walk in and pull out their guns and say "Open the fking safe or we'll blow your fking brains out". BANG!!!
Did they ever get the safe open and if so, what did they find?
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
Well remember this was 1967 so well before crack was a thing. Crime was low back then. I remember there was a murder about 4 blocks from the shop and it made front page news for weeks. Now in that same town there is a murder every week. They never did get the safe open. When they closed the shop around 1970ish, I think they just abandoned it and let the building owner deal with it. Sadly there is no one left alive who can answer that question.
So what else was in the safe?
Knowledge is the enemy of fear
Read the post before your post. They never did get the safe openned.
Worry is the interest you pay on a debt you may not owe.
"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
Chloropicrin (PS) or trichloronitromethane gas ampules were popular in vintage 20th-century safes. The post would be glued next to the spindle/wheels. If the lock was physically attacked the rod shatters the glass. It could also be activated by heat from a grinder or torch. When heated, it could be fatal
Interesting.
Very
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Well sort of ... it wasn't real and it wasn't federal charges: The Connecticut State Police’s Bomb Squad eventually determined the mortar was harmless. Baltronis was arrested and charged with breaching the peace for threatening construction workers at a new Amazon facility
Cool, that new is what I got at that time. Im glad to read yours as well