Birdhunter1
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It looks like these folks are having a problem. I'm sure with all the vast knowledge of semi-useless data we all have we could get it done.
</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Dead Man's Family Stuck With Locked Safes
LAWTON, Okla. (AP) — Steve Lee loved the thrill of cracking open a safe after he figured out the combination.
Now, family members are trying to figure out how to move the giant fixtures from the spot they've occupied for years outside his former business.
Lee kept a half-dozen safes outside his corner store, but after his death in 2000, no one has the combinations — or the means to move them.
An attempt to move one of the cannonball safes caused a hoist truck to teeter, meaning it weighs at least the truck's 3,000-pound lift capacity.
Glennis Lee said her husband occasionally would bring the massive safes home with the help of a wrecker or other equipment. Each came with a story, whether it contained guarded valuables for an individual or cash for a bank. And many came with a mystery.
Lee said her husband imagined he'd run across a lost treasure someday.
"That was always Steve's big dream," his widow said. "I'm sure that would be every locksmith's dream."
As far as his family knows, the closest Lee came was a roll of quarters.
However, he hid his own treasure, a coin collection worth $4,500, inside one of the safes out on the sidewalk. When he died, the new shop owner, Clarence Weber, cracked open the safe for the family.
Family members doubt the other locked safes that remain hold any valuables.
"Nobody's going to traipse off in the middle of the night with them," Glennis Lee said. "It's kind of like moving a house."
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</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Dead Man's Family Stuck With Locked Safes
LAWTON, Okla. (AP) — Steve Lee loved the thrill of cracking open a safe after he figured out the combination.
Now, family members are trying to figure out how to move the giant fixtures from the spot they've occupied for years outside his former business.
Lee kept a half-dozen safes outside his corner store, but after his death in 2000, no one has the combinations — or the means to move them.
An attempt to move one of the cannonball safes caused a hoist truck to teeter, meaning it weighs at least the truck's 3,000-pound lift capacity.
Glennis Lee said her husband occasionally would bring the massive safes home with the help of a wrecker or other equipment. Each came with a story, whether it contained guarded valuables for an individual or cash for a bank. And many came with a mystery.
Lee said her husband imagined he'd run across a lost treasure someday.
"That was always Steve's big dream," his widow said. "I'm sure that would be every locksmith's dream."
As far as his family knows, the closest Lee came was a roll of quarters.
However, he hid his own treasure, a coin collection worth $4,500, inside one of the safes out on the sidewalk. When he died, the new shop owner, Clarence Weber, cracked open the safe for the family.
Family members doubt the other locked safes that remain hold any valuables.
"Nobody's going to traipse off in the middle of the night with them," Glennis Lee said. "It's kind of like moving a house."
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