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> Robotic bank tellers (atm): we had a huge crime wave where people would literally blow them up to steal contents. The method of choice in my part of the worl
by samizdis 4y ago
> Robotic bank tellers (atm): we had a huge crime wave where people would literally blow them up to steal contents.
The method of choice in my part of the world is to use a JCB (or other brand of digger). Just a cursory search will show examples such as [1] and [2] in England and [3] in Ireland.
From [2] (with my apologies for it being the Daily Mail): There have also been a spate of similar robberies elsewhere in the country.
In November thieves used a digger to smash through the brick wall of Warner's Budgens in Moreton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire, before fleeing the scene with the ATM.
In the same month, thieves pulled away bricks leaving a gaping hole in the side of a Co-op supermarket in Sapcote, Leicestershire, which took just 20 seconds.
Similar to the robbery in York, the digger was left at the scene.
Thieves also ploughed a stolen JCB digger in to a Marks & Spencer store before stealing the cash machine at Malvern Retail Park in Worcestershire.
[1] (England) https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/jcb-thieves-ram-raid-barclays-olney-milton-keynes-a8468571.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/jcb-thieves-ram-raid-b...
[2] (England) https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2921779/Now-s-hole-wall-Thieves-use-JCB-digger-rip-cash-machine-op-supermarket-overnight-raid.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2921779/Now-s-hole-...
[3] (Ireland) https://www.rte.ie/news/courts/2022/0304/1284407-atm/ https://www.rte.ie/news/courts/2022/0304/1284407-atm/