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I was born
in Eastham in East London
Shipped to
an orphanage when I was a couple of years of age
I left the
orphanage when I was about fourteen and a half,
done approve
school and Borstal
My first time
in approve school, I learned over 23 ways to nick a car
I started
stealing cars to order
and while
I was in prison I learned how to open a safe
The earlier
types of safes were called fire boxes,
used to get
a press on the back of them, you know, like a big wine press
We used to
tighten up the presses until the back breaks,
that was the
old fire boxes
Then they
became a bit more proper, they started putting concrete in between the
skins of the wall, so I learned about nitro.
Nitro's easy.
I was the first man in London to use it.
Made the nitro
myself. I loved nitro, nitro's easy
The hardest
safe I've ever done was a Mowser, 5 tumbler,
6 leaver job,
it took 3 1/2 hours to do,
I used to
study drawings of the safes, You got a dial on the front of the safe
A lot of safes
are keys still but like there are some that are dials
You listen
for the tumblers to click in and the bolts to drop
Cause in a
safe you've usually got in between three and twelve tumblers,
You blow the
right hand lock first, then the left-hand lock,
Because the
left-hand lock was a dummy, it was just an alarm,
We drilled
it in all the right places, diamond tipped drills we used
And I went
through four of them on that one safe
We put the
nitro in, walked around the corridor, spun the battery and blew it.
Then you go
at the tumblers with your stethoscope,
you can feel
the numbers then dropping in on the combination
And that's
what releases your bolts, either side, top and bottom of the doors and
then spin the dial And you just spin it open, and out she comes,
she's open
then, you can't rush the job that I used to do,
Before I opened
up the safe, I was always like twenty or thirty minutes
like in front
of it looking at the safe,
Just setting
myself at ease, and psyching myself out, if you like
If you rush
it, and you make one mistake, you either got to start again
or get up,
admit defeat and walk away from it.
I've been
a thief, I've been a hijacker, I've been a mercenary,
I've been
a safe breaker,
I did that
game for about fifteen or twenty years mucking
around with
safes and that,
And then I
just quit.
If I'd put
so much energy into going straight, as what I did crooked, I'd have been
a multi-millionaire now myself
You can't
go on forever thinking that crime pays, cause crime don't pay
The only thing
I miss about it all, is working with the nitro,
I love nitro,
nitro's easy, nitro's easy.
If you carry
a gun and something happens you're more than likely to pull out the gun
and use it.
If you carry
a knife when you're losing a fight you'd pull it out and stab him
If you carry
a duster you'd pull it out and break their jaw and knock him out.
from: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/music/soundqlt/crims/lee.htm
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