Safes & Vaults versus Hollywood

**Ant** · 20-02-12, 09:31 AM

Ok Its a long time since I posted but I am in the process of watching A TV serial "Inside Men" where the acting is really good. But of course. Opening the Tann 650 Strongroom is not! I have to sit there and both my Son and Wife looking at me and now wait to hear me say to the TV You have got that wrong!! When the character on the screen is turning the Dial check lock after he has opened another "ticking" S & G K/C/L 4 wheel. and both locks turned to one number once to open!

I suppose it has to be so or else how would save time for the rest of the sex and violence.
I find it the same with so many other programmes, steam locos (running on the wrong lines Out of era aeroplanes in the wrong places and in wrong colour schemes.
Perhaps I have become grumpy?

**Dean Nickel** · 20-02-12, 03:30 PM

Oh come on! Locksmiths set 3 and 4 wheel locks to a single number all the time! mostly because the safes are for sale on the show room floor and we set the combo to the customers numbers at the time of sale/install. But yes it is hokey when it is done on the screen.

We have had a few safe rentals to stars or film sets over the years and almost all of them were to single numbers and/or electronic keypad. A famous rock star (No I will not tell you who) had a safe from us for 4 days and it was set to a single number to make it quick to get into. So it isn't totally out of line it just looks dumb and it is if there is anything in the safe.

**wylk** · 25-12-12, 05:40 PM

A recent episode of "Elementary" (yet another update of Sherlock Holmes, this time set in the US with Lucy Liu as Doctor Watson) began with an obvious grab of the basic facts behind the Anwerp Diamond Heist as told to a reporter for Wired Magazine. See http://www.wired.com/politics/law/magazine/17-04/ff_diamonds for example, though parts of the story were debunked in a recent book "Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History” by Scott Andrew Selby and Greg Campbell.

On TV, Sherlock cannot figure out how the thieves got past the electronic challenge-response keypad lock and to eliminate a possibility he attacks the keypad with a fire axe. The door does not open but in the end he figures out how it was done and who did it (as well as a couple of related murders).