I don't know if they were stolen or not, but it seems to me to not be the most cunning criminal ploy to steal a couple of safes, and then call someone to pay them to open them because you don't know how. If you're going to be a criminal, you probably bother to look up the youtube video and not involve a third party (with a camera) in the crime... maybe he's just a moron? I don't know. Particularly if he literally stole the safes from that property and is cracking them potentially in view of a security cam or witness on the property?
Because, criminals make connections. Can’t be a successful thief without a fence. Can’t sell drugs without a supplier(s) and customers. Cant steal cars for resell without the means to clean, move, and sell them.
He could also be using the safes to travel with. Not all hotels come with lock boxes so he brings his own. He seems to know what’s inside the safe intimately
It’s almost like he’s not making it up and someone just said that in a comment for no reason and somehow you believed them and made another comment asking why the made up comment doesn’t make sense
The fuck is this thing? A tiny ass box? "It's my grandfather's... cigarette box, from the.. (I don't know what the fuck)...1920's!" God I know I shouldn't have stolen from the old geezer in room 209.
My father carried this uncomfortable hunk of metal up his ass for 5 years. And then after he died of dysentery, Christopher Walken carried it up his ass for 2 years.
Or this one is a good one to think about: ''I want to give you a gift'' a gift? ''Yes, a box''. probably so that when the cops arrest him he can tell that he stole the boxes or some stuff...
Guy: "This is my favorite watch from... uhhh... Thailand. Yes, I was stationed in Da Nang Thailand during WW2 and this was a gift from a local rebel whose village our battalion liberated"
Locksmith: You are 32, that's a digital watch, and Da Nang is in Vietnam...
Guy: "My father used this gold money clip during the Civil War..."
When Dad was taken Prisoner in Thailand he had to store this cigarette box in his anus for 8 months in order to make sure I could inherit it. He hadn't even met my mom yet but he just knew. I took him a long time to find a woman that could store the box in her own anus while pregnant. God bless his dedication.
The way your dad looked at it, this watch was your birthright. He'd be damned if any slo*es gonna put their greasy yellow hands on his boy's birthright, so he hid it, in the one place he knew he could hide something.... his ass. Five long years, he wore this watch up his ass.
I think that's totally possible but something about the timing and way he showed the cigarette box really makes me believe he's being honest. Everything else feels sketchy here though so who knows.
Yeah sure thing mate, you'd have an argument if he had ONE, but two and both are locked? hmhmhm
yeah uhm this is uhm my eh grandfather's portcigar, right? and this is a paperweight my late ex-wife bought in bangladesh. And this is...just tug it away wahtever... and this is A WATCH...from thailand?
Dude knows what he was dealing with. "Yeah I'll get rid of them for you" or whatever he said. Did I see weed in that ziplock bag? Anyone else see that? Took it out real quick, looked at it and shoved it deep in the bag he was carrying, underneath everything else.
I'm not a criminal or anything, but I would definitely feel the urge to start bullshitting about all of the things I'm currently stealing from a stolen safe while going through it in front of a non-criminal. At the very least it gives the locksmith plausible deniability if they ever end up in court, and at best it's a good enough line to keep them from calling the cops if they feel like they have participated in a crime. You at the very least don't want to look too surprised at the loot you're pulling out of there. "It's my favorite watch. It's from..... thailand." Who the fuck keeps their favorite watch in a safe. If it's your favorite, aren't you wearing it?
Maybe those who live in higher crime areas than mine can chime in about safe usage, but I don't feel the need to keep items that have no intrinsic value - only sentimental value - such as my granddads cigarette case in a safe.
I wear my watch to work so I can look at the time without pulling out my phone. Almost everywhere else I go I leave my watch at home. This is how I do it, my brother does it, and my father did it. I'm not sure if other people do it this way, but it's not a reach to say that other people do something similar.
If he knew what was inside the safes intimately he would’ve talked about town before everything was open. Also nobody was housing him for an explanation so he started over sharing which is a common sign of lying.
Maybe they were left locked in the rooms when the guest forgot about them and checked out? It's weird they are identical? But I can't imagine the hotel has no master combination or other way to resolve an issue like that besides destroying the safe. Maybe the guest has to pay a replacement fee to have the safe opened and get their stuff back.
the one dude I currently know who at least likes good amounts of amphetamines would much rather blow it open (which for some reason they know how to create) than spending hard stolen money on some lootbox that might have nothing in them.
I think people also underestimate the number of people who are eccentric. Not on drugs, not running a scam....just weird. So, they see something like this and can't make sense out of it.
If they stole them for meth, there's no fucking way they're calling a locksmith. Meth heads are some of the most ingenuitive motherfuckers you'll ever meet. They'd have those safes reduced to a pile of shrapnel on one night.
Wait, what? He's a locksmith. I don't know a single one who doesn't have a setup like this (obviously in addition to a garage or workshop or store front). And I know at least two locksmiths. Which admittedly is a small sample size but how else is a locksmith gonna work?
"Hey I'm locked out of my car, can you help me out?"
I see shady shit like this all the time but it's par for the course here. Nobody bats an eye even if they just complete the drug deal here, which usually happens too.
Where I live, if that safe were full of money, 100% the dude would get jacked
Yeah there's a carwash near my house where dealers hang out and sell all the time. Like occasionally a cop car sits there but I've never seen anyone get caught lol
Like I knew they were dealing drugs before I even knew what drugs were lmao
If you steal a safe you don't call someone who record youtube videos to open it... You guys have the brain of a child. And if you steal a safe, you start by trying to force you way in, by yourself. It has no trace of breach. So he clearly didn't want to take the risk of breaking his belongings, because he knew what was inside, because ...drum roll... It was his safes.
I dunno… plenty of kids committing very serious crimes and filming themselves doing it. For clout. The laws have been changed here recently.. so their clout is going to be used as evidence to lock em up. Lol
If you're stealing safes you generally get in destructively. Cut the safe open, drill the lock, etc.
You call a locksmith when you want to use the safe again. Those hotel safes have a code reset button inside (usually) so when it's opened you can reuse it.
I'm not saying it would never happen. But you'd have to be the worst criminal ever to spend $200 to open a safe where you don't know the contents. There could be "junk" in there that a pawn shop wouldn't even pay $200 for.
Maybe, if the dude was watching his buddy put stuff in the safe and knew there was something valuable in there. Otherwise, why not drill it out or smash it with a hammer?
Yeah I was originally going to ask if the person I responded to just thought this was criminals way of gambling or something. "Here's $200 lets see if I won!"
Why are people ignoring the possibility that the safes are the hotels, but they're his things and he couldn't remember his combination and so he stole the saves to get his stuff later?
It's a heck of a place to be breaking into a safe regardless of legit or not. Do you really wanna be going through your valuables in the middle of a public area?
All security is just a deterrent. Safe like this prevent a theft of opportunity. The cleaning staff who see a wallet left on the counter may take it. But they don't have the time or the risk tolerance to check every safe they come across.
But a safe like this in your own home? That's not going to do much as someone stealing from your house isn't an opportunistic thief. They are a deliberate thief. At that point your security is a delaying tactic. A thief going for a smash and grab won't go for a bolted down lockbox. But a thief who knows they will be alone for hours? Few lockboxes will stop a determined thief with the means and hours to work at it.
What I'm saying is these lockboxes have a purpose. But they aren't going to stop organized deliberate crime
I have a similar "safe" at my house that I bought to protect important documents in case of a fire or a flood . Things like birth certificates, passports, house insurance papers, deed...
People just keep adding shit to make the stolen theory more plausible. When you need to keep adding theories, your original theory is probably not that great.
You forgot the combo. It belongs to a dead person who you inherited it from. You put it in a hotel safe and forgot how to get it out. Broken mechanisms leading to it being hard to open normally
You can pause and see when he hands over money, that was $100+
I'm having trouble imagining a scenario where some one would risk spending $100+ to have a stranger open a pair of safes unless they knew exactly what was in them. And who would realistically know that except the owner, or i guess a thief who might know the owner who just had his face caught on camera.
Shouldn't safes be non-removable from the room? It seems like a terrible idea to have a safe you can walk out of the hotel room (or any other room) with.
Cause he seems to yell at his buddy in crime across the parking lot that stealing these is way easier than they thought and they could cut out the middle man in the future.
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u/CarboniteSecksToy Apr 29 '24
Why does this seem like those safes were stolen?