Two thieves used the backyard sliding door to gain entrance while the homeowner was away.
After ransacking the house, the pair can be seen carrying a large safe out. The safe, according to Caitlynn Martin, the homeowner’s daughter, weighs approximately 500 pounds.
No. They handled that safe way too easily for it to be 500 pounds.
ReplyDeleteI've got a small 9 gun safe I bought about 15 years ago that weighs 300 pounds. When I first got it home, I managed to unload it out of the truck and dragged it up 3 steps to the porch. Then I stripped the cardboard off and tipped the safe from side to side to kick some of that cardboard under it, then slid it into the house and into the spot I wanted it in. By myself.
DeleteBack in my younger days, I could pick up a 200 lb transmission and carry it across the yard single-handedly. I weighed all of 140 lbs at the time. Today that shit would lay me up for a week with my back and knees thrown out. Anyway, that's why my safe is lag-bolted to the wall studs in 4 different places as well as lag-bolted to the floor.
DeleteAgreed, not only did they handle it too easily, it's not nearly the size of my safe which is 500 lbs. The safe in that picture is maybe around 200 lb, at best. I don't trust that woman to know what constitutes 500 lbs.
DeleteAh, shit. The video didn't pop up when I first saw the article. Y'all are right, that safe doesn't weigh 500 pounds. Maybe 150 at the most.
DeleteHell, it's mans fault that women have no sense of proportion.
DeleteForever men have been telling her that this is eight inches.
...or, conversely, when told you're too big, trying to convince her it's only average size - six inches
DeleteThose are white boys.
ReplyDeleteI was burglarized a few years back. Yup! they found the safe since it was sitting right out in plain sight. Weighed right around 100 lb. Damn fools must have spent hours trying to open it from the mess they left behind. But they did get the door off. Surprise! Only used it to keep stuff in to prevent fire from getting to it - insurance policy, divorce papers - just the important stuff.... The combination was scratched into the door so I wouldn't lose it. Duuhhhh!!!...
ReplyDeleteRented a big refrigerator dolly.
ReplyDeleteDrove over to pick up my safe.
They loaded it on my truck w/ a forklift.
Took three of us about an hour to rassle it into place. Empty.
No idea what it weighs, but full of gear it's a damn sight heaver now.
They sent a whole rip crew out there. They do not randomly do that. They may want to take a look at their house guests and service call people over the relatively recent past. There are other possibilities, but that is where I'd start.
ReplyDeleteFirst rule of having a safe is... don't talk about having a safe.
Second rule- as Wirecutter states, bolt that thing down! In multiple places.
Third- do not have it out in the open.
I have heard that some people have had success with leaving some plausible decoy safe out where it can be seen & found, stuff it with worthless crap... throw some antiques in there, maybe some costume jewelry, maybe get a pimp roll of some worthless foreign currency, that sort of thing. They have to work a little for it to sell the decoy (to themselves). It would be instructive to put an apple airtag in something that they would find inside to steal.
Good luck to people out there on this subject. There are a LOT of helpful youtube videos on safes, safe construction... what is a safe, as opposed to a security container (NOT the same thing). You do get what you pay for, good security is not cheap. Think long and hard about what your threat model is... lone burglar? focused rip crew? What other security you have on site (alarm systems, cameras, dogs...)
A few years back my wife and I (both 59 then) purchased an upright 12 gun safe at BJ's Wholesale (think Costco). The box was labeled 336 lbs shipping weight. The two of us tipped it off the pallet, pushed it against the pallet and tipped it over to lay on a flat cart not supporting the full weight. Did the same to get it in the back of a mini van then out into our garage. The next day I rented an appliance handtruck and with our son's help moved it up three steps into the house and put it in the living room because my wife would not let us try to get it upstairs in the bedroom.
ReplyDeleteAbout a month later while preparing for a range day I figured out that the safe door "easily" lifts off the hinges. It's now in the the bedroom.