This article is from the Locksmithing FAQ, by Joe "Spike" Ilacqua spike@indra.com and Henry Schaffer hes@ncsu.edu, major data collection effort by Scott Anguish sanguish@digifix.com with numerous contributions by others.
"Either throw the safe away, or pay a safe expert to open it, or
perhaps work out a trade with the safeman: he opens it, you get the
contents, and he gets the safe. Please try and use a tiny bit of
common sense: if anyone could get a quick and easy way to open your
safe by posting to alt.locksmithing, your safe wouldn't be worth a damn,
would it?"
A safe expert (which usually means a member of SAVTA) usually can open a
safe by either "manipulation" or drilling to access the lock's internals
and then working the lock.
Drilling can be repaired and leave the safe in excellent condition.
 
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