Safety Deposit Boxes Are for Losers
It was a small safe, good for holding a few valuables or gold coins, ingeniously built into the base of a bed — a modern-day answer to the idea of stashing your savings under a mattress. A duly impressed Felipe plans on using it to store his wife’s jewelry and some extra cash: After all, he asks, what thief would look for such valuables in the frame of the bed itself?
—Well, for starters, me, right after I break into Felipe’s house and right before I take his wife’s jewelry and extra cash. Rich people are keeping their valuables at home now, by the way, IT’S A TREND. So just because Felipe is my mark doesn’t mean you can’t find one of your own. But once you’re in the house, don’t be looking for any janky safe—keep an eye out for elegance:
“When somebody is building a $100,000 custom closet, they don’t want a safe that looks like it belongs in the back of a delicatessen,” says Robert Tompkin, president of Prestige Safe, a high-end New York manufacturer.”
I was wondering how long it would take for a banana stand joke to happen. Now I know!
I want my fridge to look like the safe in the back of a delicatessan, and my fridge to look like a bank vault please.
@Megano! I mean closet, WHY CAN’T I EDIT HERE!?
Having nothing to do with valuables – when I was a kid my dad’s office had a giant walk in vault in it – the kind with the big wheel you spin to open the door. It was awesome. Trying to translate from my kid-brain it was probably 10×20? His office also had counters and old chem lab stuff built into the walls, the sinks and gas jets still worked. He was head of the astronomy department at USC and they never bothered to refurbish it as an actual office for him when they built a new chem building (sometime in the early 70s, I guess). I never new for sure, but assumed that the vault was for storing dangerous or expensive chemicals.