Take it or break it.
In Japan thieves steal safes by simply take the whole thing. Resourceful crews, using a jack, a pushcart and a truck, are making away with huge safes, weighing as much as several hundred kilograms. The safes are taken to dumps and other lonely areas, where they are opened-mostly with hydraulic excav...
| Publicado en: | Economist Vol. 365; no. 8301; p. 66 |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
11/30/2002
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