They took out all the bags that stopped the lids from shutting and just left those bags by the road.

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The plan would see all but one of the vaults dismantled, with the vault lids and their side panels placed along the western boundary wall.

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All over the rich world, there are parents who leave the child-proof lids off medicines because they find them so fiddly, and office workers so irritated by self-closing fire doors that they prop them open.

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