Safe Washes Up at Bayview Beach in Milford - Patch.com
Victor Lamberti, a resident of Bayview Beach, his wife Judith and 25-year-old son, also named Victor, were walking along the beach right after Irene, when, as Lamberti said, "We stumbled on a piece of furniture. We rolled it over and, lo and behold, there's a green safe."
Thinking it probably belonged to someone living nearby, the younger Lamberti dragged the heavy safe to their nearby house.
"We've found wallets, and even some money," said the older Lamberti, "but we never found anything like this before."
He reported his discovery Aug. 28 to the Milford Police Department, which took possession of the safe. According to police procedure, if nobody claimed the safe for the customary six-month period, it would be the property of its finder.
The mystery was: who did it belong to and what was in the safe.
A press conference was called on Sept. 6 by the police department in the hope of getting the word out to area residents. As media representatives sat in the lobby of the police station waiting for the press conference to begin, a woman came in and walked up to the lobby window.
"I read about this safe that was found and I think it's mine," she said.
Heads turned toward her, cameras and microphones came out, and the woman was approached by the media. She explained that the safe was in a piece of furniture given to her by her brother.
"I have no idea what's in it," she said.
The safe was in the garage of a family member on Melba Street. The woman, who did not want to be identified, was planning to refinish the furniture but hadn't gotten around to it yet. Then Irene hit and washed the safe away.
"I have the combination at home," the woman said, as she left the police station to retrieve it.
When she returned, she and Jeffrey Nielsen, the police department's public information officer, went to the property room to try her combination.
When they returned, there was some good news and some bad news. The good news was that her combination had worked. The bad news was that there was nothing in the safe.
The piece of furniture had been destroyed, but the empty safe was loaded into her car and she took it home.
07 Sep, 2011--
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