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Many safes allow for securing to the floor, making porting it away require a bit more effort, possibly including power tools which are quite loud. Also they're quite heavy usually.

I remember as a child someone broke into our house while we were away to steal stuff. The safe wasn't bolted down, and they carried it from one end of the house to the other before giving up, either because they got spooked by something and bolted or because it was just too damn heavy.

Think about the logistics of it. If they're stealing a safe, that probably requires a vehicle. A vehicle is more identifiable and unless stolen makes it easier to track people if noticed or recorded. If stolen, there's a chance it will cause a problem immediately before, during or after the crime. If they don't use a vehicle, all the benefits of not using one, such as being able to take non-road paths and blend into crowds are negated. And if they choose to crack the safe on location, that adds time to the crime while doing so, and all time spent at the location of the crime increases the chance they'll be caught because someone notes something suspicious.

Like a lock on a house a safe within a house serves it's purpose not by making it impossible to gain access but by making it much more troublesome and likely to be noticed, changing the risk to reward ratio.




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