They used a digger to steal a cash machine

[d_brennen]

To be fair even if a copper saw them do it, you can't really argue with a digger.

No idea how much is in these machines but it must be plenty, especially if timed right. One gang of three convicted of blowing up something like 30 of them around London (8 successfully) are said to have made off with £350k, so £40-50k a machine give or take. Not a bad nights work between 3 when your tools are stolen

 

[Gerard]

They're nice handbags tho'

Diddums is partial to a nice handbag

 

[Nasher]

There has been quite a few of these "heists". Most aren't successful.

I don't know why they don't load those explosive paint packs inside them. If it gets pulled from the wall, or forced open...boom and the money is useless.

 

[Diddums]

Diddums is partial to a nice handbag

And a nice moped

 

[antijoke]

Something similar happened round here last year.

 

[norm]

Why isn't the cash in the machine triggered to explode coloured dye all over it as soon as it's tipped on its side or subject to g-force above a certain threshold.

 

[FoxEye]

Why isn't the cash machine triggered to explode

I like your thinking!

 

[cheesyboy]

Why isn't the cash in the machine triggered to explode coloured dye all over it as soon as it's tipped on its side or subject to g-force above a certain threshold.

probably cheaper to just suck it up whenever this sort of thing happens than to roll out that sort of feature.

 

[d_brennen]

Some of them run on Windows NT/XP embedded... They'd be "blue cashing" and blue screening all over the place

 

[PC777]

This guy thought he had the right idea, why bother with a digger when you just can take the bus.

 

[The_Abyss]

How do you live with yourself man you absolute nutter


@Maccapacca yes, van with roof chopped off.

What I'd like to know is how much cash there is in those machines, nicking a digger, presumably causing some damage to the construction site they nicked it from, nicking a van and chopping it in half, destroying a whole shop... for what? A few grand? The risk/reward here is on a whole different level.

Here in London they do it properly, £100k handbags, 20 at a time, on a moped worth no more than a few grand, at the cost of a smashed up window. These guys are idiots.

Not sure about these shop ones, but bank ones are normally loaded with £60 - £80k

 

[Efour]

Just google cash machines forklift trucks robbery theres 100s of examples.
Im sure there was one in my old town in Romford. There was a phase where all the cash machines were mounted in windows and banks had very open glass fronts in general.
Was reasonably easy to just drive into them and carry them out.

 

[StriderX]

And people wonder why these things are just disappearing from streets everywhere.

Cashless society ho!

 

[Feek]

Haven't these people seen Breaking Bad, don't they realise how difficult it is to crack a cash machine open?

 

[Django x2]

To be fair the more blazen the more people probably thought it was legit.

Always wear hi viz during a burglary, kids.

Brazen

Don't cash points have trackers in? Wonder how quickly they can remove that!

No, why on earth would it have a tracker in. In most normal cases they are physically impossible to remove so there has never really been a requirement for a tracker to be fitted to them. This was extreme tactics to remove something that is otherwise, normally, immovable

 

[thegreysquirrel]

No, why on earth would it have a tracker in. In most normal cases they are physically impossible to remove so there has never really been a requirement for a tracker to be fitted to them. This was extreme tactics to remove something that is otherwise, normally, immovable

Seems to happen regularly enough to make it worth while. Even if the cost of fitting them outweighs what might be recovered, if you're catching criminals at the same time then it's well worth it.

I wanted to watch them drive off with what is now an incredibly overloaded van, with knackered suspension, and is insanely top heavy.

 

[Rids]

This has been going on in East Anglia for a long time, every co-op within a 15 mile radius of my mums village has been done I believe.

No, its not her, she can't drive a digger.

 

[Freakbro]

And people wonder why these things are just disappearing from streets everywhere.

Cashless society ho!

Though I bet more money is stolen electronically out of the banking system now than ever was when it was just cash and securicor vans.

 

[Street]

When I was at college, I worked part time in a Little Chef and we had a standalone cash machine on the site. I came in one morning to find police everywhere and the whole front of the place smashed in. Apparently some thieves had stolen a Land Rover, driven through the front then hacked the machine open with axes to get the cash cassette. It had been filled up the day before so someone must have known and supposedly there was about £20k in there.

 

[413x]

Imagine if it was empty