During the tornado, 22 people hid in the bank vault of the Tinker Federal Credit Union as the rest of the building was destroyed around them.

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Whatever is collected beyond that is dropped into a vault at the end of their shift and later transported to a bank. (For reasons of security, the Port Authority will not disclose the name of the bank or the amount of money dropped into the vault.) Beyond simply collecting cash, toll collectors are required to document every non-E-ZPass customer by pressing relevant buttons on their monitor.

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It was named after Archduke Joseph August of Austria, a prince of the Hungarian line of the Habsburgs, who reportedly deposited it in a bank vault in 1933.

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In 1971, some stumblebum thieves drilled their way into a branch of the Lloyds Bank in the Marylebone section of London and cleaned out the vault.

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In the early 1990s, he duetted with the likes of Notorious BIG and Janet Jackson, cheekily branding the latter "a walking bank vault" on her hit single Alright.

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An impressive 3-ton steel and concrete bank vault door is useless if the back of the vault is made of drywall.

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The Federal Reserve Bank of New York's gold vault, for example, is located in bunkers 80 feet below its headquarters on Maiden Lane in Lower Manhattan, and is protected by an airtight and watertight seal.

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The stash is divided among a number of sites: Fort Knox in Kentucky, an underground vault at the New York Federal Reserve Bank, a vault in West Point, N.

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