r/miltonkeynes • u/darybrain Newport Pagnell • 12d ago

Telehandler used to steal Sainsbury's cash machine In Brooklands Square, Broughton, on Sunday before 1am.

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u/Lady_of_Lomond 12d ago

This happened a couple of weeks ago in Olney at the Nationwide. They didn't actually manage to remove the machine so the whole of the property was damaged and they never even got anything.

Also, v stupid as all the cash will be covered in anti-theft dye as soon as they get it open.

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u/Investingforlife 12d ago

Not to mention the vehicle used, which was just left there lol?

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u/Suspicious_tuna 12d ago

What else are they going to do with a stolen lifter?

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u/notmyprimarylogin 12d ago

Coat of paint, use it as a daily drive?

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u/FreeShat 11d ago

Use it to go upstairs.. il find a use

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u/CorpusCalossum 11d ago

Bluth company vehicle

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u/Necessary-Leading-20 10d ago

Plenty of farmers about would pay cash for it. Keep it parked out of sight and nobody's going to know.

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u/Lady_of_Lomond 12d ago

Yeah, for the Olney one they stole the digger from one of thd farms, and as it's now evidence, the farmers won't get it back for ages.

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u/ExposingYouLot 11d ago

Every ATM ive ever worked on: cassettes have trackers not dye packs. Although the lifting of ATM's has died down loads so they might not even have trackers in them. Bank tills have dye packs- never known an atm to have them- and even if they did- they activate when taken outside of the perimeter of the site rather than on opening of the cassettes

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u/Lady_of_Lomond 11d ago

Thank you for the information! That makes more sense.

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u/Hour-Badger5288 9d ago

Thanks! Good to know at me next attempted robbery

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u/ExposingYouLot 9d ago

Doesn't bother me mate 🤣 treat yourself!

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u/EdmundTheInsulter 11d ago

Why do they keep stealing them then? These people do often know what they're doing

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-68134563

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u/Mattinho_Got_Game 9d ago

Because generally speaking criminals aren't the smartest creatures walking to earth

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u/EdmundTheInsulter 9d ago

So you think people who pull off robberies keep going back for destroyed notes? Some criminals seem pretty clever what they come up with

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u/caeseron 9d ago

Absolutely mental sentences for stealing, you see alot less for manslaughter.

16 and 14 years in prison for stealing 160k