Men find abandoned safe thought to be century old

[April 24, 2009]  TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- Two men said they've found an abandoned safe by the side of some railroad tracks and that it could be more than a century old.

Bill Dodd, one of the men who found the safe about a month and a half ago, says it weighs about 4,000 pounds. It's now on display at an east Tulsa sign company while the men decide what to do with it.

The patent dates on the safe range from 1856 to 1907. Dodd says that the safe is rusted shut and its locks have been broken off. He says he thinks there's something inside and that it hasn't been opened as far as he knows.

Dodd said the safe could be auctioned off for charity or the men who found it could open it themselves. He says the latter option probably would require cutting into the safe.

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Information from: KTUL-TV, http://www.ktul.com/

[Associated Press]

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