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Crooks Launch Cash-And-Carry ATM Spree

 


glennesau
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HOLTSVILLE, N.Y. - If money could buy happiness, these thieves would be overjoyed. They stole the ATM.

Packs of thieves have been swiping the cash machines from drugstores and mom-and-pop shops around Suffolk County, most recently before dawn Friday. They smashed the front window of Dario Rodriguez's deli in Holtsville, withdrew the automated teller machine and fled.

Rodriguez said police told him there had been a dozen such smash-and-grabs recently.

"They break in, take the whole machine and are gone by the time the cops get here," he told Newsday.

The crooks crack open the ATMs, which can hold thousands of dollars each, remove the Andrew Jacksons and deposit the empty machines in the woods.

Detective Sgt. Frank Stewart said several of the thefts had been solved with a recent arrest.


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What's next? Breaking into the local arcade and stealing the video game? I bet there are a lot of quarters in those machines. I find it funny that they would break into the stores and take the actual atm. I guess that this just proves that atm's should not be placed into stores and should be left in the banks where they belong.
suntzu3500
With the levels of armor on those ATMs, that's actually a better and safer way of doing it. Now they just need to add a few thousand pounds of depleted uranium to them to make it trickier Wink
raghu.steppenwolf
talking about atms, i remember this really original crime story in the news sometime back : again in england. when the brits get it right, they are masterly, i guess!
anyway, the story was about these guys who actually installed an atm that gave out cash each time someone used a card to withdraw cash from it. simultaneously, it was also collecting and storing the info on the atm card, and in a couple of weeks the atm vanished, together with the data of several hundred atm cardholders, and several hundred people found their bank balances depleted in the following days!

does anybody know if the cops nabbed them?
Sava
I believe they did because they were staying in the apartment next to the atm Smile
Manofgames
wow Very Happy

Wot a scam that wos, winder where they got the atm shell from??

p.. where did u hear about that>?
raghu.steppenwolf
Smile @ "church of google" . There's a newsweek quote- "God is dead, unless declared integer" !!!
otiscom
Manofgames, they got the atm shell as explained in the first post!
Hence the reason for stealing it!!!!!!!!!!!
Manofgames
oooooooooooooooooohhhh....

i didn't realise that.


that quite clever actually Shocked
NooBix
I doubt the stealing and scamming were two different things... Probably the scammer found the discarded shell from the woods and thought it was god's will to make him a scammer (Joking Really)...
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withdrew the automated teller machine and fled.

I never thought we could do that with an ATM card.
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