The Flying McCoys by Glenn McCoy and Gary McCoy for March 22, 2011

Hope his money is still under his mattress!

Is that Charlie Brown’s sweater?

I hate to admit that I don’t understand a comic, but this time I have to admit: I don’t understand this comic.

Same here Ray C - this one’s over my head too.

I don’t get it either but it’s not like I didn’t learn anything- at least now I know it’s a safe deposit box!

Actually the terms “safe” and “safety” are interchangeable. Otherwise, I’m at a loss.

I have to agree with some of the people on here, I do not get this one.

As for the terms, I believe the official term is safe deposit, but you can use safety deposit, at the risk of looking foolish.

Cheers!

Goggling “Willis” + “deposit box” yielded this:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049476/

‘56 movie called “The Man in The Vault”

excerpt:

The Story Line

There’s $200,000 in a Los Angeles safety-deposit box that mobster Willis Trent would like to have, so he gets two-timing, double-dealing Flo Randall to get the box number for him. He offers locksmith Tommy Dancer $5,000 to make the key but Tommy refuses. Trent threatens to harm Tommy’s girl friend, Betty Turner, and Tommy gives in and goes to the bank. In a few nerve-racking minutes, Tommy makes the key and pockets the $200,000 for himself. Trent sends word that he has kidnapped Betty and the ransom is $200,000.

The exec should have addressed him as Mr. Trent.

Or maybe this is a totally false lead.

I think this refers to Bruce Willis….if not then I too am at a loss today.

My initial impression was that the robbers took the box but left the contents behind. It doesn’t make any sense, but neither do anybody else’s explanations.

Well, it seemed funny when they wrote it.

I dont’ know…but the humor seems to me to be that the robbers took the safety deposit box, which should have been safe?

FWIW, my take was that the bank somehow mislaid or lost the deposit box, and are covering it up by saying it was ‘stolen’.