Nyc, NY - Thieves Steal Contents Of Safety Deposit Boxes

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Good news for a change! However they don't mention if any of the loot was recovered.



Maybe not...

I keep my stuff in a safe deposit box, but this article really alarmed me on how easy it could be to get into the vault and steal you and your kid's dreams.

my question is this... with all of the possible millions of dollars in the safe deposit box, why would a bank be so incompetent in security by not installing power back-up systems in case the thieves cut the wires, or put up those invisible lazer lines running through the safe deposit box area that will trigger a backed-up alarm? or have I just been seeing too many bank burglary movies?

seriously, in addition to the cameras, which do nothing to alert the police or actitivate an alarm, why not put in a couple of cheap motion sensor devices that go off when movement is sensed by the machine. I had a few of these and they worked very well and could be hooked up to an external bell or whatever. the total cost to the bank would be less than a hundred bucks.

or what about just hiring a $10 an hour security guard to work the nights? I a sure the bank could find a way to pass on the cost. I would pay more for my box for better security in whatever form it took.

In any case, my trust in the safe deposit boxes is seriously compromised, I am going to look into the insurance before somebody in my town gets the same ideas as these crooks did. what good does it do to put up heavy steel doors and bars when the walls and roofs of the bank or safe deposit box rooms appear to be no more secure than an average house?

Probably closer to one for every 100K home break-ins or more. In my lifetime I can only recall hearing about maybe five or six.

That's why I prefer having my own personal safe in my house. I have immediate access to it.....
This safe is over 300 pounds with everything in it....plus if you can get past the alarm system in my house, my dog (she's a very good guard dog), plus my father who carries a glock pistol and I have access to a spare pistol .....they'll still be outta luck cause it's dead bolted into concrete.

I think people who have home safes would be surprised how easily they can be broken into. The worst case scenario is to put in an expensive safe, and have an employee at the company pass along your address, and have someone put a gun in your face to open the safe.

My expectation of a bank vault is that there is a secure floor and roof, and hopefully better security measures in place than this NY robbery, which did not look like a real "bank" and might have been in a strip mall. It is still disconcerting to read about. I don't like paying almost 1% of the declared value of a collection that is in a safe deposit box, though. And I don't like cataloging and listing what I've got in my house for an insurance company, which I would never do unless I am describing the contents of a bank vault.

I guess the bottom line is, there is no such thing as perfect security.