The best time for us or Ian to steal it would be during the gala this weekend when the guards are distracted by the VIPs upstairs but we'll make our way to the Preservation Room, where there is much less security. Now, when the case needs work, they take it out of the vault and directly across the hall and into the Preservation Room. No, that's where they clean, repair, and maintain all the documents and their storage housings when they are not on display or in the vault. Do you know what the preservation room is for? You know, Thomas Edison tried and failed nearly 2,000 times to develop the carbonized cotton-thread filament for the incandescent light bulb.Īnd when asked about it, he said "I didn't fail I found out 2,000 ways how not to make a light bulb," but he only needed one way to make it work. Now, when it's not on display, it is lowered into a four-foot-thick concrete, steel-plated vault that happens to be equipped with an electronic combination lock and biometric access-denial systems. And underneath an inch of bulletproof glass is an army of sensors and heat monitors that will go off if someone gets too close with a high fever. and little kids on their eighth-grade field trip. Now, when the Declaration is on display, it is surrounded by guards. We've got construction manuals, phone lines, water, and sewage. What we have here is an entire layout of the Archives: sort of builder's blueprints. And they're all saying the same exact thing: Listen to Riley. Why? Because it's the biggest library in the world. I've brought you to the Library of Congress. I'm gonna steal the Declaration of Independence. It means if there's something something wrong, those who have the ability to take action have the responsibility to take action. "But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and provide new Guards for their future security."īeautiful, huh? I have no idea what you said. Of all the words written here about freedom, there's a line here that's at the heart of all the others. Although, I don't think that's exactly gonna scare Ian away.ġ80 years of searching, and I'm three feet away. I was thinking, what if we go public, plaster the story all over the internet? It's not like we have our reputations to worry about. If it's any consolation, you had me convinced. You know something? You're shouting again. We did the only thing we could do to keep it safe. Just the guys we warned you were going to try to steal the Declaration. I actually had to pay for the souvenir and the real one, so you owe me $35, plus tax. I thought it'd be a good idea to have a duplicate, turns out I was right. If this is the real one, what did they get?Ī souvenir. Chase, to be a little more civilized in this instance. You're still shouting, and it's really starting to annoy. See? Okay? Now could you please stop shouting? Yeah, well I'm not all right! Those men have the Declaration of Independence! Still a little on-edge from being shot at but I'll be okay, thanks for asking.
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