Sad to see such a nice safe destroyed. American craftsmanship. The safe could have been worth $600.00 to $1000.00 cleaned up. (That's 1 MILLION Canadian Dollars ;0)
The value of that safe was more than what's inside. This is something like finding a Rolls Royce in a barn, getting a crowbar, and break open the trunk, because something of value is inside. You could have the stuff inside, *and* a working antique safe.
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That was the original title of the video. We thought it would make a great web series, so we filmed about eight or nine similar videos and even made t-shirts and hats with a logo of the same name. A small production company in Los Angeles called us shortly after and asked if we'd consider producing a few more videos of the same name, but with better cameras, so they could be broadcast on a new streaming network. We agreed, and hired a producer to help us polish the series. The producer didn't like the video, us, or the subject matter, but loved the name. He LOVED it. He said the title, "IDIOTS Cracking A Safe” was amazing, really clever, and that we should probably skip the small series and sell it as a feature-length comedy though some of his connections in Hollywood. With his help we ended up taking the title to Universal Pictures, and they loved it. They gave us an advance of 180k to start working on a film of the same name. It was really exciting. We started writing the script and meeting with actors and directors. We got to meet Paul Rudd and Peter Jackson. It was really, really amazing. All on the strength of such a great title. Everyone said, 'Man, that title's really funny. How did you think of such a great title?' We blew through the money pretty quickly, living the hollywood lifestyle, but things went sour fast. Unfortunately we hadn't takenthe correct precautions, and it turned out someone already owned the title. Universal was really mad. They demanded the money back. Fortunately our producer had a great lawyer, and his ex-wife knew the company that made the original “IDIOTS cracking a safe.” As long as we could prove the plots of the two projects were different, we were off the hook. The only print of the film was in a private collector's home, but he was willing to show it, because he hadn't seen it in a while and had done business with Universal in the past. One hot LA morning, we drove to Peter Jackson's business home (the collector) in the Hollywood Hills, with about ten lawyers from Universal Pictures and bunch of Peter's friends who were big fans of the original movie. Apparently it's a lost classic. I'll never forget how nervous I was. The lights in the theatre went out, the curtains opened, and the movie started. There were some similarities. The movie featured a bunch of guys and their horses, but instead of cracking into a safe, they were cracking into your mother.
Totally agree with you....me and my wife bought a sentry safe and thought wow, we feel very confident after what their brochures, videos, and even their salesman told us how they use quality materials and how well-built they are. The safe didn't even survive an eight-step tumble down our basement stairs.... the door came right open when it hit the bottom! Keeping in mind that no one shoved it down the steps. Well we immediately called them and was told "sorry for the inconvenience but our safes aren't design to withstand that" Well if they can't even withstand that, then how would it hold up to someone using prybars n such??? So just more salesman's hype they use to get their products sold and probably work off of commission and so they get more money for each sale they make!
This looks exactly like my grandfather safe. I'll never forget that safe. It's a shame you guys are smashing it up. You can get good money for a safe like that.I think that safe was already open. I don't think it's that easy to bust open that safe. Shame too, the safe could have been refurbished. Sold it for some good cash. Oh well, stupid is as stupid does.
We tried to sell it, and have professionals open it, but the cost of moving the safe was more than we could get for selling it. Real shame. I would have loved to have known that we sold some old grandfather's safe. Instead I love knowing I smashed open some grandfather's safe.
mickey, they will definitely get sold when they're in perfect condition and only priced around 650.00 ... an early 1920's-1940's safe like this one in the video, but in perfect condition, will actually sell between 1.000-1,200....again if in perfect condition.
Unfortunately what he did was actually closer to what safe cracking is... the term "safe cracking" actually means what it says where by early safes were made from cast iron and could literally be cracked open due to cast iron's properties of being brittle, but it wasn't until later on that the phrase was given a new twist of the original meaning to now mean break into a safe without actually breaking it to get inside.
When you're making an omelette do you force open eggs? No. Because that would be rape. You crack open eggs. You crack open safes. And you crack open people's cold hearts and warm them with love. That's how life works.
spend 80 bucks to open the safe and then sell it for well over 2500 bucks and keep the contents as well but no, beat the shit out of it . Pffff *facepalm. Kids these days
Mickey, just the lock alone is worth 350.00 and so total up any other parts that are sought after by the many people restoring these safes. Me and my wife have been buying and selling safes for quite a few years and these locks are QUITE RARE and get SOLD FAST! ...not to mention other parts that can be removed from these safes... the casters are easily worth 100.00 for all 4, the hinge finials (not sure if the safe in video had them) are worth on average 20.00 each, and the other locking mechanisms in the door can be worth 65.00-100.00
Wow really? No other research was done on their part.... Easy Enough to find a way to open with out damage. Haha! And yes there were silver nickels.... In ww2 nickel was used for bullets, so they made silver alloy nickels ugh... These are the type of people who made me lose faith in humanity.
+TheONLYCorington We tried every safe cracking method we could, and only pulled out the hammer as a last result. Sorry about the loss of faith in humanity, let me know if I can make it up to you sometime.
that safe did not need all the pounding you could have just hit the hings to begin with to open it and if it broke off or did not pop you could have removed the hinge bolts with a hammer and punch then used a prybar to pop the door off.
Jaakko Fagerlund did you see the part wear I sed prybar you get in thear nice and tight and it will pop them out of the retaining holes and I was talking more of this safe hence the comment on this video. and I have poped plenty this way.
Of the Diebold, Mosler, Halls, and Victor safes we have worked on and restored, all of them had both stationary door bolts and retractable door bolts. This means there are stationary bolts on the inner side of the door pertaining to the side where the hinges are located, and there are retractable bolts on the inner side of the door that are positioned in the up, down, and left side depending on the model/manufacture but typically retractable bolts just in the left side of the door. This was of coarse to prevent someone from such an easy way as to use explosives, grind off, or torch the hinges and then pull the door out.
That was soooooooo dangerous those days they put fucking tear gas vials in the safe door so that robbers could bust the door like that never mind the fact that tear gas that old could have turned to cianide !
Stupid people can't learn ----- and you my friend are about 100 shades of stupid! Where did you attend school --- The Jethro Bodine Academy of Six Grade Education? Hey I know --- call me when you have another moronic idea of opening anything. Children!
I agree, even on the inner door you can see the key lock's bolt is extended yet it's just pulled open with the try bar without effort. The safe was already dialed open and the smashing of the dial was for "effects"...
In a storage locker in Los Angeles. It was part of a really interesting legal dispute involving a generational fight for the remains of a pioneering business of its era. We glossed over all that and decided to focus on hitting it really hard with a hammer.
We tried banging all sort of things. Oh, the banging we did. Bang this. Bang that. Bang. Bang. Bang. At one point I had it on a pallet jack rolling down a hill and almost smashed it into a security gate. The banging was the least of its problems. If I could do it all over again, I'd probably drop it off the side of a building.
Make me think all you really dollars. that smashing, was loosen a rusted handle. Too bad the safe got destroyed, a little cleanup and it'd sell for a few hundred dollars.
Clearly not know what you're doing. Smashing the handles will NOT help at all. Perhaps the door if it was because it was rusted. If it was locked properly you'd never get into it like that (or perhaps if you had a century non stop)
Sad to see such a nice safe destroyed. American craftsmanship.
The safe could have been worth $600.00 to $1000.00 cleaned up.
(That's 1 MILLION Canadian Dollars ;0)
i have one oldest
The value of that safe was more than what's inside.
This is something like finding a Rolls Royce in a barn, getting a crowbar, and break open the trunk, because something of value is inside.
You could have the stuff inside, *and* a working antique safe.
I wish I found a Rolls Royce in a barn instead. That way I could have rammed it into the safe.
Andy is a bit touchy these days... you know with the price of meds etc.
I've locked them in a safe by accident and can't get them out.
It's in my Rolls Royce trunk.
John Ob
I can't believe you destroyed something cool they don't make anymore.
It destroyed my heart first.
Too bad it didnt contain a teargas capsule as they sometimes did back in the day
I would have bought that safe before it was destroyed! Now it's scrap!
Where were you on May 10th, 2012? Cause it would have been way more helpful to have known that then, instead of now, which is back then now.
May 10 2012 was a Thursday, and I was at an auction, buying a safe, for my collection. I have since sold all my safes, and moved.
Congrats. I managed to get rid of mine, too. But it took a while.
Oh, I love these videos😅Every other home and building containing hidden safes, every other alley filled with discarded ATMs, all kinds of metal boxes buried in parks containing gold and silver bars and coins😲and/or containing packs and packs of money💵I must be the only american that hasn`t found my hidden safe yet. Can`t wait!🤑
The title of this video should be "IDIOTS Cracking A Safe." What a shame to ruin such a nice antique.
That was the original title of the video.
We thought it would make a great web series, so we filmed about eight or nine similar videos and even made t-shirts and hats with a logo of the same name. A small production company in Los Angeles called us shortly after and asked if we'd consider producing a few more videos of the same name, but with better cameras, so they could be broadcast on a new streaming network.
We agreed, and hired a producer to help us polish the series. The producer didn't like the video, us, or the subject matter, but loved the name. He LOVED it. He said the title, "IDIOTS Cracking A Safe” was amazing, really clever, and that we should probably skip the small series and sell it as a feature-length comedy though some of his connections in Hollywood.
With his help we ended up taking the title to Universal Pictures, and they loved it. They gave us an advance of 180k to start working on a film of the same name. It was really exciting.
We started writing the script and meeting with actors and directors. We got to meet Paul Rudd and Peter Jackson. It was really, really amazing. All on the strength of such a great title. Everyone said, 'Man, that title's really funny. How did you think of such a great title?'
We blew through the money pretty quickly, living the hollywood lifestyle, but things went sour fast. Unfortunately we hadn't takenthe correct precautions, and it turned out someone already owned the title. Universal was really mad. They demanded the money back.
Fortunately our producer had a great lawyer, and his ex-wife knew the company that made the original “IDIOTS cracking a safe.” As long as we could prove the plots of the two projects were different, we were off the hook.
The only print of the film was in a private collector's home, but he was willing to show it, because he hadn't seen it in a while and had done business with Universal in the past.
One hot LA morning, we drove to Peter Jackson's business home (the collector) in the Hollywood Hills, with about ten lawyers from Universal Pictures and bunch of Peter's friends who were big fans of the original movie. Apparently it's a lost classic.
I'll never forget how nervous I was.
The lights in the theatre went out, the curtains opened, and the movie started. There were some similarities. The movie featured a bunch of guys and their horses, but instead of cracking into a safe, they were cracking into your mother.
AndyKwontastic Can't wait to see your sequel, "Mentally Ill Psychos With No Life Repond To You Tube Comments."
That one's also staring your mother. Small world.
I have no idea who gave a thumbs up to that reply. I wouldn't have.
@@AndyKwontastic Whack job
Sadly they don't make safes like that anymore. Especially the cheap sentry safes.
Totally agree with you....me and my wife bought a sentry safe and thought wow, we feel very confident after what their brochures, videos, and even their salesman told us how they use quality materials and how well-built they are. The safe didn't even survive an eight-step tumble down our basement stairs.... the door came right open when it hit the bottom! Keeping in mind that no one shoved it down the steps. Well we immediately called them and was told "sorry for the inconvenience but our safes aren't design to withstand that" Well if they can't even withstand that, then how would it hold up to someone using prybars n such??? So just more salesman's hype they use to get their products sold and probably work off of commission and so they get more money for each sale they make!
This looks exactly like my grandfather safe. I'll never forget that safe. It's a shame you guys are smashing it up. You can get good money for a safe like that.I think that safe was already open. I don't think it's that easy to bust open that safe. Shame too, the safe could have been refurbished. Sold it for some good cash. Oh well, stupid is as stupid does.
We tried to sell it, and have professionals open it, but the cost of moving the safe was more than we could get for selling it. Real shame. I would have loved to have known that we sold some old grandfather's safe. Instead I love knowing I smashed open some grandfather's safe.
If I can ask...how expensive were the price quotes you received to open the safe? And what did you have to compare those quotes to?
The quotes were between $500 and $1k, all from places in the area.
safe looked very nice... some would pay thousands for a working safe like this...
Some would. Other's would smash it will a giant hammer. The gentle balancing act of nature. Really makes you believe in miracles, doesn't it?
Even in perfect condition, safes like this are selling for around $650.
mickey, they will definitely get sold when they're in perfect condition and only priced around 650.00 ... an early 1920's-1940's safe like this one in the video, but in perfect condition, will actually sell between 1.000-1,200....again if in perfect condition.
You should've whistled "I've been working on the railroad". Neanderthal way of safe cracking.
I was whistling it, from the back end. All farts. Mic must have not picked it up.
@@AndyKwontastic Whack job idiot
This is not Cracking a safe. Cracking a safe is opening it without destroying it or it's contents. Get a professional
We weren't trying to crack into the safe. We were trying to crack into your heart.
good one
Unfortunately what he did was actually closer to what safe cracking is... the term "safe cracking" actually means what it says where by early safes were made from cast iron and could literally be cracked open due to cast iron's properties of being brittle, but it wasn't until later on that the phrase was given a new twist of the original meaning to now mean break into a safe without actually breaking it to get inside.
Could the safe be restored?
Wasnt locked rust
I have an old rare silver dollar, given to me by my grand dad. No idea where he got it, we live in Norway, and he's never been to the US.
Cool. You should keep it someplace safe.
It's more like force opening it than cracking it.
When you're making an omelette do you force open eggs? No. Because that would be rape.
You crack open eggs. You crack open safes. And you crack open people's cold hearts and warm them with love. That's how life works.
The safe was all ready unlocked. Click bait.
the HORROR THE HORROR :(
I love the smell of cracked safe in the morning.
5 knuckle shuffle merchant or what .
spend 80 bucks to open the safe and then sell it for well over 2500 bucks and keep the contents as well but no, beat the shit out of it . Pffff *facepalm. Kids these days
That safe in good condition is worth about $350.
Mickey, just the lock alone is worth 350.00 and so total up any other parts that are sought after by the many people restoring these safes. Me and my wife have been buying and selling safes for quite a few years and these locks are QUITE RARE and get SOLD FAST! ...not to mention other parts that can be removed from these safes... the casters are easily worth 100.00 for all 4, the hinge finials (not sure if the safe in video had them) are worth on average 20.00 each, and the other locking mechanisms in the door can be worth 65.00-100.00
Wow really? No other research was done on their part.... Easy Enough to find a way to open with out damage. Haha! And yes there were silver nickels.... In ww2 nickel was used for bullets, so they made silver alloy nickels ugh... These are the type of people who made me lose faith in humanity.
+TheONLYCorington We tried every safe cracking method we could, and only pulled out the hammer as a last result. Sorry about the loss of faith in humanity, let me know if I can make it up to you sometime.
@@AndyKwontastic Pathetic
that safe did not need all the pounding you could have just hit the hings to begin with to open it and if it broke off or did not pop you could have removed the hinge bolts with a hammer and punch then used a prybar to pop the door off.
vorkev1 Except safes usually have bolts on all sides, in which case removing the hinges does nothing to help in opening the safe.
Jaakko Fagerlund did you see the part wear I sed prybar you get in thear nice and tight and it will pop them out of the retaining holes and I was talking more of this safe hence the comment on this video. and I have poped plenty this way.
Oh I'm sorry, I thought you were talking about safes and not tin cans. Yes, you can open tin cans with a Leatherman or a pry bar, but not safes.
Of the Diebold, Mosler, Halls, and Victor safes we have worked on and restored, all of them had both stationary door bolts and retractable door bolts. This means there are stationary bolts on the inner side of the door pertaining to the side where the hinges are located, and there are retractable bolts on the inner side of the door that are positioned in the up, down, and left side depending on the model/manufacture but typically retractable bolts just in the left side of the door. This was of coarse to prevent someone from such an easy way as to use explosives, grind off, or torch the hinges and then pull the door out.
That was soooooooo dangerous those days they put fucking tear gas vials in the safe door so that robbers could bust the door like that never mind the fact that tear gas that old could have turned to cianide !
Couldnt*
Every stupid person thinks the dial destroyed will get a safe open
We hit the dial because we'd learned it was the weakest part of that style safe, and applying direct force to it would pop the plate behind it.
Stupid people can't learn ----- and you my friend are about 100 shades of stupid! Where did you attend school --- The Jethro Bodine Academy of Six Grade Education? Hey I know --- call me when you have another moronic idea of opening anything. Children!
Helldpdigr how would you have done it
Shame on a nice safe. I guess you know it was only rusted shut. It was not locked.
What makes you say that?
You think banging on the lock a few times with a sledge hammer would have opened it?
I agree, even on the inner door you can see the key lock's bolt is extended yet it's just pulled open with the try bar without effort. The safe was already dialed open and the smashing of the dial was for "effects"...
We tried that. No luck.
WHERE DID YOU FIND THIS SAFE????
In a storage locker in Los Angeles. It was part of a really interesting legal dispute involving a generational fight for the remains of a pioneering business of its era. We glossed over all that and decided to focus on hitting it really hard with a hammer.
thanks
OMG .. NO ... Why would you go after a safe with a sledge hammer
+Mutant Mike It was self defence.
"Cracking" Video
What a shame
Use the money and get lessons on hitting what you swing at
We didn't get anywhere near that much money.
A 64 quarter is silver....
Wow. This isn't "cracking" a safe. This is just ruining an antique. Banging on the lock dial is not the way to go.
We tried banging all sort of things. Oh, the banging we did. Bang this. Bang that. Bang. Bang. Bang.
At one point I had it on a pallet jack rolling down a hill and almost smashed it into a security gate.
The banging was the least of its problems.
If I could do it all over again, I'd probably drop it off the side of a building.
@@AndyKwontastic Such children
i could have possible cracked that safe in approx. 45 minutes, no damage
Ok. You're on. Aaaaaaaaaannd go!
I have a balls floor safe that rusted I was gonna do what they did
How does a moron open a safe you ask? Just watch these guys and find out.
Make me think all you really dollars. that smashing, was loosen a rusted handle. Too bad the safe got destroyed, a little cleanup and it'd sell for a few hundred dollars.
Phony
a 64 is silver
+Chris Henson Thank you.
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The horror!!!! Why????
he said there's Indians head dime. there's no such thing
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Nice job destroying an antique.
Thanks. If I'd had more time, i would have destroyed another.
A drill andd some skill would have saved the safe.
Clearly not know what you're doing. Smashing the handles will NOT help at all. Perhaps the door if it was because it was rusted. If it was locked properly you'd never get into it like that (or perhaps if you had a century non stop)
We weren't sure if the handles spun or not. They didn't.
total fake!!!!!!!!