# @wmar2news on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CvUhT8DMZxJ
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- **Posted:** 2023-07-30T11:59:00.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** WMAR-2 News (@WMAR2News) — https://gondola.cc/WMAR2News

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Can you crack this mysterious safe redemmas in Waverly?

“The safe, as you notice, is huge and heavy,” Analysis, worker/owner said.

On Twitter. they put the call out for a safe cracking gumshoe.

“Folk have come to, just for the fun of it, you know, take their spin at it. Literally and figuratively speaking,” Analysis said.

Still, this historical behemoth has kept its secret safe. Now, cracking into this safe is a matter of delicacy.

No damage can come to the safe.

Here are the rules:

- Manipulation only, drilling or other destruction is not allowed.

- You can only attempt to open it when the bookstore is open for business.

- Any contents to be split 50/50, they say, unless it is gross or cursed, in which case you can have all of it.

Not much is known about the safe. But they tell us one of the professionals clued them in to an important point about this relic from the 1920s.

“This is a time period in which one of the safety precautions was to rig tear gas up. So that if somebody tried to drill into it the wrong way and was trying to steal something, that the tear gas would explode,” Analysis said.

Rick Amazzini, a hobbyist safecracker in Canada has crowd funded an effort to come down and try his sleight of hand on the dial.

So any local treasure hunters better get in quick if they want to try their luck.

#mystery #lock #code #baltimore #baltimorecity #bookstore #waverly #locksmith #history #treasure #treasurehunting

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locksmith, lock, mystery, code, baltimorecity, baltimore, history, waverly, treasurehunting, bookstore, treasure

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