40 Year Locked safe in the Vermilion Museum opened by Alberta Man.
The famous Vermilion safe locked away for an estimated 40 year period, with a history of numerous unsuccessful attempts to unlock, inclusive of attempts by a locksmith as well as the original safe manufacturer, after which it was donated to Vermilion Museum. 'Skilled man'; Stephen Mills, as we can now call him still insists he didn’t necessarily have a strategy up there when he decided to attempt he seemingly impossible. In his own words: “I just took the numbers out of thin air and said OK let’s do 20, 60, 40. Just like a typical combination lock, three times to the right, two times to the left, and sure enough spun the handle and it cracked open. ” he told Global News in an interview. Being a regular camper, Mills, his wife and two kids decided to make good use […]