Ok so the bank robbery thread reminded me of this idea I had years ago. I saw some futuristic movie a few years ago that had a police force that carried no weapons because the population was disarmed and ordinary citizens never broke any laws.
The first part of the movie opens into a safe deposit box room in 1959, a young man rents a box and deposits some objects among which is a S&W model 10 with a box of ammo. fade to black and we open to year 2030-2040 or something, a strange turn of events has kept the bank from updating the safe deposit boxes for some reason and the contents of the box keep getting willed to the next man of the family after the previous owner dies. nobody ever bothers to open the box based on explicit instructions from the wills of past family members.
our star of the movie is a 20 year old guy that never knew how to manage money so he relies on his parents to survive. one day the parents die in a house fire and leave the son with nothing but funeral bills to pay and no bed to sleep in. after weeks of living in his car he gets a letter in the mail from a lawyer that also contains the safe deposit box key. soon he runs out of money and sells all his possessions just to make ends meet but its not enough and he soon becomes homeless.
he reads the letter that was sent from the lawyer and constantly looks at the key to the box till he snaps and visits the bank to open the box hoping to find big time money, he takes the box to the private room and he can hardly contain his excitement and opens the box to discover what lies within. he is shocked to find this old gun instead of money but he begins to think about strange things, the police are never armed and people never commit crimes anymore due to the indoctrination of society.
It clicks in!
he loads the gun and places it in his pocket, he returns the box and askes to see the manager.
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thats as far as i've got so far in imagining the story. what do you guys think?