Anyone Seen A Missing ATM?

This is a couple of blocks away from my house in Brooklin at around 3AM this morning. Some guy stole an excavator and used it to remove an ATM from a Bank of Montreal, load it onto his truck and drove away. The front of the bank is totally destroyed.
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That happens relatively often
 
That looks like a lot of work for a smallish payday if you`re caught. Yeah right!! Who am I kidding? You could kill a carload of Nuns and puppies getting away and still make bail the same day. That whole system must be alarmed, lots of cops in that photo, where were they at 3AM, can`t see Brooklin being chaotic busy then. :rolleyes:
 
That looks like a lot of work for a smallish payday if you`re caught. Yeah right!! Who am I kidding? You could kill a carload of Nuns and puppies getting away and still make bail the same day. That whole system must be alarmed, lots of cops in that photo, where were they at 3AM, can`t see Brooklin being chaotic busy then. :rolleyes:
Many toronto precincts have a single car on duty overnight. I can't see Brooklin having a ton more. It's not hard to get all on duty to run to a distant location.
 
Yes, I’m sure I’ve heard of it happening before. The perpetrators obviously used a stolen getaway truck or stolen plates but there must be some kind of tracker in the ATM.
No tracker's in retail bank ATMs as far as I know. The haul for a single ATM in a place like Brooklin could be between $50 and $100K on regular weekday. On Saturday at 3AM it may have been $250K.

Most ATMs thefts are from convenience stores and gas stations, where a couple of guys with a chain and a pickup can extract a machine. The haul is small -- less that $10K, but it's a whole lot easier.

Not many ATMs are stolen from banks - you'd need an excavator to get one out.
 
Many toronto precincts have a single car on duty overnight. I can't see Brooklin having a ton more. It's not hard to get all on duty to run to a distant location.
I witnessed 3 guys in a Supra throw a garbage can through the window of a Shoppers Drug Mart at Warden & 7 and run in with green garbage bags, stealing smokes. We were on break at the Loblaws in the plaza, that was about 2AM in the summer of `90 or`91. One of our crew called 911 and in 60 to 90 seconds there were at least 8 cops arriving at high speed from all directions. Crazy like a movie. The Supra crew loaded the car and blasted off, south down Warden with the cops in tow. About an hour passes and one of the cops comes back and tells us they called the chase off near 401 as speeds were well over 100 mph. A week or so later another cop stops by to tell us they caught the same crew in Scarborough doing the same B & E.
 
That looks like a lot of work for a smallish payday if you`re caught. Yeah right!! Who am I kidding? You could kill a carload of Nuns and puppies getting away and still make bail the same day. That whole system must be alarmed, lots of cops in that photo, where were they at 3AM, can`t see Brooklin being chaotic busy then. :rolleyes:
It’s actually on a corner within 50 yards or less of 2 provincial highways, Highway 12 and Highway 7 which have traffic at all hours. I’m sure a few people saw what was happening. There’s also a 24 hour Tim Hortons maybe 100 yards away. It wasn’t exactly in middle of nowhere.
 
Amateurs, that bucket would have been the quickest and easiest way to extract the cassettes out of that box.
Maybe they have another stolen excavator at their destination. Every second saved on site reduces your chances off being caught.
 
Maybe these guys found it


Nah. More likely to be your colour and mine actually.

 
Maybe they have another stolen excavator at their destination. Every second saved on site reduces your chances off being caught.
If you are off the hook enough to be casually cruising around town at 3AM in a 50T excavator adding another minute on to the police response lottery wouldn't be that big of a deal.
Add to that breaking it open with the bucket would likely be just as quick as loading the thing up for transport and would reduce the chance of toting a tracker on your getaway.
 
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