http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/10/old-safe-given-away-for-scrap-filled-with-gold-coins/ You got to check. The family is lucky the guy contacted them.
I'm not so sure. Given how the story is written, the family never relinquished ownership to the contents of the safe. As such, if the scrapper were to sell the coins, there would be a huge paper trail to uncover, and the family would have disputed it anyway. It would have been in court and cost them a lot legally, so I'm guessing the guy probably got more than nothing... which is what he was supposed to get if he followed what appears to be the original arrangement.
I agree NK, but that is assuming the scrapper was stupid about it. I still give props to the scrapper for contacting the family. Someone with less class could/would have figured out a way to keep it and the family would never have known. If I lived in Houston I would go out of my way to give that man any of my business. I am not calling the safe opener a "hero" like the media likes to do nowadays when someone actually does the right and moral thing, but I still applaud him for doing so.
Locksmith's are another breed! Probably the most honest and trustworthy people on the planet...or they should be anyway! I'd be willing to bet if the guy had opened it himself, without the locksmith around, we wouldn't even hear this story! Maybe we should look into electing some locksmith's to political office!
