Safe Move: The Good, The Bad and The Lucky

Very few people enjoy admitting mistakes. I am certainly not one of those. I don’t enjoy making them or facing the reality of their consequences, but they happen and therefore I do.

The story that follows was not one of my better moments. It’s not often that you will see mistakes purposely brought out this far into the open. We all make mistakes, but it’s what we do to learn from those errors in judgment that makes us better. What follows is a hard-learned lesson I won’t soon forget.

The Good
Photos 1 and 2 show a top quality imported TL-30 safe. This high security composite safe contains both a combination lock, and a pick resistant, high security European keylock. This keylock is protected by a glass relocker plate located on the inside of the door. A relocker is a spring loaded device which when triggered, fires an independent locking bolt somewhere on the inside of the door. This independent relocker bolt blocks the safe’s main boltwork from retracting, thus preventing entry. It is an effective form of burglar resistance. In this particular case, the relocker bolt is held in place by a piece of glass inside the door. If the glass is broken, the relocker bolt will fire causing the safe to become locked up.

This is good, and this is bad. If a burglar is trying to smash his way into the container, he will fail without question. This is good. If you accidentally break the glass plate yourself and fire the relocker, I guarantee “oh darn” will not be the first words echoing throughout the vicinity. This is very bad.