What would you do?
So, the end of the work day arrives, and I get my coat on and go out to my car in the parking lot. Hmm... There is an armored car parked right behind my car. I get closer, nobody in the armored car at all. well, okay, Brinks is in the industrial park, so they probably had finished with it for the day. Oh look. The driver tangled his seat belt in the door latch and kept the door from closing.
What do you do? Indulge in the curiousity to see what the inside of an armored money truck looks like? ignore it and drive away? Go knock on the door of Brinks and tell them they left the door open? Something else?
What do you do? Indulge in the curiousity to see what the inside of an armored money truck looks like? ignore it and drive away? Go knock on the door of Brinks and tell them they left the door open? Something else?
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If no one was at Brinks, I'd be inclined to see if I could easily lock the door and take a brief look inside in the process...nervous all the while thanks to the fantasy playing in my head that the cops would come screaming up the moment I touched the truck much as my logical brain would know how unlikely that was in such a mundane occasion and also expecting there to be no access to valuables from the driver's seat (if indeed there were any in the truck at all).
Whether or not I touched the truck or just drove away, I'd at least think about dropping them an email or calling the next day to let them know about the open door. Reading your post made me aware of just how strongly I think armored cars should be either locked or tended, and that the obvious, simple human error is a breach of security Brinks should know about. And I'm quite likely wrong about that...the actual security exposure is probably inconsequential.
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I did wonder, as many years ago, when my employer had first moved into the current location, a package of money fell out of one of the armored trucks onto the street in front of our driveway. One of our employees, who is now the office manager, saw this as he was pulling in to work. So he goes and knocks on the door of Brinks, and they basically blew him off. So he goes and looks at it again. Big package, lots of pictures of dead presidents visible through the shrink wrap. So he goes back to Brinks and says, no, really, there is a big package of money you guys dropped in the street.
So, a brinks guard comes out to look. The guard is described as the oldest guard he has ever seen. Guard looks at it, says something on his radio, and the two of them start shoving it towards the building. (it's too heavy for him to pick up by himself) By the time they get to the door, a bunch of brinks guys with shotguns and everything come streaming out. They take the big bundle of money, and the brinks supervisor takes a statement from our guy. Supervisor reads the label on the bundle. Hundred and some thousand dollars in cash. Supervisor also mentions that the driver of the truck that it fell out of was already fired, but just didn't know it yet.
Our guy asks if there is a reward or anything. Supervisor doesn't know, but said he would ask. Six months later, a brinks manager comes over and offers a 25 dollar gift certificate. Our guy is insulted and tells him to piss off. Because he had asked a lawyer about the situation. massachusetts law on stuff that falls off of motor vehicles on the public road is pretty specific. As long as the driver is there on the scene, it is still his (or his company's) property. Once the driver of the vehicle has left the scene, unless the driver was taken from the scene by ambulance or by arrest, finders keepers, unless the finder is a cop or other emergency responder on duty on the scene.
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