Lettuce SafeIs your apartment filled with diamonds and cash and other valuables? Do you constantly struggle with where to hide such items in case a thief breaks in? Fret no more, my ruby-wearing reader! This iceberg lettuce safe looks like an unassuming head of lettuce, but in reality is a cleverly disguised safe. No thief will think of looking in your produce bin for cold cash -- unless s/he reads this site, but let's not worry about that now. $49.00 and it's yours. And they also sell soda can safes, in case you have more loot than a head of lettuce will contain.

Posted on March 9, 2007

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