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What stops Security Guards being covered in the Red Dye that is meant to explode if the money is stolen?

If you steal money off a security guard, delivering to a bank or cash machine for example, you apparently run the risk of being covered in red dye. Is this deactivated by a key or similar so that it doesn't explode on the security guards themselves?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    There is a link (wristband) between the security guard and the box full of money. When the box is stolen the link is broken. The dye device is on a timer. The security guard may need to disconnect for a short time. If the link is not re-instated the device goes of covering all the money with permanent dye.

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    The government has been putting money in the Social Security fund for years. It's like putting coins in a piggy bank to use on a rainy day. This is not hard to understand. After a while, the government started to see how huge the piggy bank was getting and starting taking coins back out to spend on other things. In place of the coins, it started writing IOUs to remind itself to pay itself back. Nobody really cared because the bank was filling up faster than they could empty it. A lot of people were working but not many people were retiring so it seemed like an awesome deal. Unfortunately they had to start spending more and more Social Security money on Social Security payments since more people started retiring, but when they went to get the money all they found were lots and lots of IOUs that they had no hope of ever paying back. The piggy bank was running dry, and the timing couldn't be worse. It has nothing to do with "paper money," it has to do with the federal government having the future planning skills of a four year old child. The fund was borrowed from and the amount that's borrowed is more than can ever be paid back.

  • Ian UK
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    I would answer this question based on my own personal knowledge but as I don't know who you are or your reason for wanting to know the answer to your question, or your intentions, I wont.

    I will however say that the only sure fire way of getting into these boxes is by the correct method. Anything else would run the risk of being painted red by the dye.

    The security guards obviously have the means to do this correctly.

    Source(s): 5 years as a cash courier
  • 1 decade ago

    I would have thought the security guards use a key and not a chisel...

    that said the guys driving the vans probably dont have access to the boxes either and the depot has the keys

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  • 1 decade ago

    it explodes when you try to open the packet the money is sealed in. security guards would get covered in it if they tried to tamper with one of the packs.

  • 1 decade ago

    the pack is de-activated if the box is opened correctly, in the alloted time.

    there is more than one method of activating the dye pack.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    you have to open the box, for the dye to open, unless you have a key, all the best

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    The thought that a bull could chase them at any time

  • 1 decade ago

    Its a key and electronic process and they do sometimes go off wrongly - its one hell of a mess!!!!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    its activated once its ready to be used

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