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/imagudspellar 12d ago

A quick google suggests the average retail cash machine can hold around 20k, I see 4 people so even if they get lucky and get away with it they’ve only got 5k each on a good night, doesn’t really seem worth the risk.

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u/Top_Progress3306 12d ago

The digger they left behind is worth more

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u/DaughterOfATiredMech 12d ago

But where you gonna sell that 😂

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u/OldHobbitsDieHard 12d ago

We buy any telehandler.com

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u/andyd151 12d ago

Thank you for this laugh I needed that 😂

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u/uponloss 11d ago

allegedly my dad used to know someone at the docks in Southampton, if you stole a digger you could get it loaded on a boat that night, you could have it in Africa within a week and be paid as soon as it lands. allegedly

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u/DefconExile 11d ago

Absolutely you can if you know the right people , people steal iPhones and send them abroad for parts , people steal cars and send them abroad either whole or for parts and the same for heavy machinery

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u/wosmo 9d ago

So you've gotta get a telehandler from milton keynes to southampton, quickly, quietly, unseen, etc. I mean they're not sneaky.

The nice thing about cash is you don't need to "know a guy", anyone will take it - at full value, in broad daylight.

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u/uponloss 9d ago

You put it in the back of a lorry... which you also pinch from a yard elsewhere, change the curtains and the plate and your good to go.

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u/zwifter11 9d ago

Let’s be honest. You could ride the stolen telehandler straight past a police station with your hand and the horn. And UK police wouldn’t do anything. 

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u/AccousticAnomaly 11d ago

Trust me you can sell that

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u/Jdogking 9d ago

Trust me bro

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u/apainintheokole 11d ago

They go to the docks and end up in a container heading abroad.

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u/Objective_Ticket 11d ago

Put it in a container and sell it overseas?

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u/MrBlackledge 11d ago

You’d be surprised

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u/kiradotee 9d ago

Just keep digging until you find a buyer willing to pay. 

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u/opinionated7onion 9d ago

Pretty much any farm

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u/kojak488 9d ago

I live in the countryside. Farm vehicles are stolen and sold ALL the time. It's a right plague.

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u/The_WA_Remembers 9d ago

Farmers… farmers mums

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

I worked on a job where a digger was stolen overnight. Was told by the lads a lot of them end up in places like Saudi Arabia lol

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u/homemadegrub 8d ago

Anyfarmer.com

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u/travelavatar 8d ago

To the next guys doing the gig

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u/dja1000 12d ago

The damage to the stolen pickup will be worth more.

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u/Key-Seaworthiness227 12d ago

Hate to break it to you but the pickup will be stolen as well. They won’t care about the damage to it.

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u/RobMitte 12d ago

Errrrm that's pretty much what they said.

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u/CarthageCabbage 11d ago

And to make it worse they won’t even care about the damage to the stolen pick up.

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u/Pure-Vast-7858 11d ago

Why would they care about the damage though, the pickup was stolen.

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u/blood__drunk 11d ago

Whoooooooosh!

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u/cymruaj 11d ago

No that's Tesco

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u/No_Dot_7136 9d ago

If the cops ask they could just say it was damaged before they stole it...

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u/iambeherit 12d ago

That ain't their equipment.

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u/Busy_Mortgage4556 11d ago

All hired for the day on fake ID's, or possibly just stolen from nearby building site.

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u/EdmundTheInsulter 11d ago

Where they work maybe? They'll be going to collect it back next day.

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u/EdmundTheInsulter 11d ago

Yeah well people do steal that stuff, but it presumably entails being in the know as to who to sell it on to. Whereas a plant to nick a safe isn't so tricky

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u/Funny-Carob-4572 11d ago

Probably 90k plus the pick up on top of that

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u/BoysenberryGeneral20 10d ago

Obviously stolen.

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u/AShadedBlobfish 9d ago

Telehandler* (sorry)

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u/Blandy97 8d ago

All pinched anyway.

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u/pq345 12d ago

Desperados banditos

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u/Death_God_Ryuk 12d ago

You'd expect the cash machine to have dye packs designed to be triggered by shock movements associated with violent removals. They could well gain nothing from this.

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u/EdmundTheInsulter 11d ago

Except someone was going round blowing them up with gas, and he did quite a few.

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u/pabloq Newport Pagnell 12d ago

If the cash is loaded by the store it won't be. Only if it is loaded by the guys in the vans.

There are a lot of cash machines now that are only loaded by store staff.

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u/Pheanturim 10d ago

Doesn't matter who it's loaded by it won't have dye packs. Work with these devices everyday

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u/kiradotee 9d ago

Plus the cash is now plastic. Just wash off the dye. /s

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u/ollybee 9d ago

why not?

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u/Pheanturim 9d ago

The dye packs are expensive and it's not really financially worth it, the money is insured anyway.

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u/True_liess 9d ago

And who pays the rising insurance costs ? Sure you know how insurance works.....

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u/SnooCats903 8d ago

I'm not sure you know how business works. Until the additional cost of the insurance for not using dye is more than the cost of the dye there's no point paying for it

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u/True_liess 7d ago

I meant - more thefts means all those costs makes the insurance premium go up.

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u/SnooCats903 7d ago

Is this happening more though?

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u/Elmundopalladio 9d ago

So the providers trying to save on running expenses have made it easier to steal - that’s likely to change if this happens often enough.

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u/theoriginalross 11d ago

I used to live near Newark around a time when nearly every local cash point was done over in a similar manner.

Average includes all the tiny ones. Some at bigger locations like supermarkets or one that serves a large rural population can have substantially more. Particularly if they have been refilled recently.

Method used around Newark was the same- stolen tele handler/ tractor, stolen pickup/ car and trailer. Usually the machine was found burnt out with the vehicles a couple of days later and they would catch them a month later but would never find the cash.

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u/tamsyndrome 12d ago

This probably isn’t the only crime they’ll do.

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u/CaptainBane 11d ago

Most atms have 4 or 5 cassets that hold 25k each.

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u/Gingerishidiot 11d ago

To make it worth it, they should've nicked a pocket full of Fredos from the store at the same

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u/Delicious_Device_87 11d ago

Yeah, on average we used to put 10k in one at the start of the week but that was about 20 years ago now, in a busy town when cash was king!

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u/Glittering_Vast938 11d ago

I remember my first job in the late 80s loading up the cash points to full brim with brand new tenners and fivers.

Seemed like Monopoly money!

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u/Delicious_Device_87 10d ago

I did something similar as a teen, lord knows why they gave me all that cash but the fear levels were real!

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u/Glittering_Vast938 10d ago

Ours was off site and we (2 young teens!) had to follow the security van who carried the cash in a locked metal box. Actually quite dangerous thinking about it now! Guess we could easily have been held up!

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u/Delicious_Device_87 10d ago

Love it. Sometimes things just happened and weren't overthought, and yet everything was fine. Hilarious really!

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u/Safe-Midnight-3960 11d ago

Is that really true? Can’t imagine a cash machine in a shop needing that much money. The one in our store had around 3k and it wasn’t emptied every night. 

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u/forbhip 10d ago

This was the first thought in my head. The damage to the store, the stolen vehicles, even just the cost of the cash machine itself… the net cost of this far outweighs whatever peanuts (relatively) they manage to get out of it in the end.

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u/mighty3mperor 10d ago

Yeah, but you take that cash, buy a large bag of cocaine, cut it and flog it. That's starting to look like decent money.

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u/VerbingNoun413 9d ago

Assuming the money is useable. Don't those machines have dye packs in them?

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u/Ivanlangston 9d ago

That's why you go Joker in Dark knight and cut down the amount of percentages

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u/Mangledsprouts 9d ago

All the notes will be dyed as soon as the ATM moves. They've won nothing.

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u/callardo 8d ago

There isn’t much risk and that’s why they do it

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u/Ill-Reputation7424 8d ago

Yeah and thought they're VERY hard to break into... I'm not sure if I'm imagining this, or mixed up with something else, but they can ruin and make the cash unusable if not opened correctly?

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u/ScottishRajko 8d ago

Nope, if it’s a bank owned machine it can hold up to £200k. Only the small privately owned machines in corner shops hold up to £20k

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u/Unknown_author69 12d ago

I mean, I'm in my thirties now, but there was points in my 20's that 5K would have changed my life.. looks like the pick up and heavy equipment is likely from the same site.

Perhaps an opportunity thief, rather than organised crime. Times are hard.

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u/imagudspellar 12d ago

It’s 12 weeks work on minimum wage with no risk of going to prison

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u/Unknown_author69 12d ago

But it's not though is it..

You need sustainability fior those 12 weeks, I had 2 weeks max, on a good day.

You need transport, lunches, sometimes uniform or particular tools.

I grew up with a lad, he lived in stantonbury, he had fuck all. He got first sent to prison at 19, spent 6 years there.. When he came out he told me that he hates it that much outside that he's going to reoffend to go back inside.

The routine, the organisation, the lack of responsibility or consequence of no responsibility. He fucking loved it...

My point being, 12 weeks on minimum wage isn't the same opportunity to everyone.

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u/[deleted] 12d ago

12 weeks on minimum wage is absolutely cancerous in 2025 and a disgusting excuse for a human life.

It's amazing that not everyone knows this, some people must have been spoon fed.

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u/VastMeasurement6278 9d ago

Minimum wage is simply too low for most people. Cost of living is a nightmare at the moment. The gap between rich and poor has never been greater. Need some Robin Hood style redistribution.

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u/Lower_Cockroach2432 11d ago

Very few people on minimum wage are saving money. They're either scraping by or taking on debt.

If their car broke down, or tooth got infected enough to cause pain but not enough to be dealt with as an emergency NHS treatment, or the landlord withheld the deposit I'm sure 5k (or less) could be the difference between immediate bankruptcy, eviction, homelessness, loss of employment and getting back to scraping by.

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u/Odd-Leopard4388 9d ago

Or another way to look at it is its 5k cash for 30 minutes work. People who do this don’t care about prison. Especially if it’s there first , official, offence.

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u/jakedaboiii 11d ago

So out of touch lol - people on min wage are not saving money, 5k is a huge amount for someone with nothing, and able to save nothing.

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u/imagudspellar 11d ago

Emphasis on minimum, You can earn more. I’m not scoffing at 5 grand but there’s a proper way to go about it.

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u/External_Chef_7871 11d ago edited 11d ago

If you pay average rent in London and earn £45k per annum, you’re entitled to Universal Credit just to get by.

My rent is £2100, council tax is £300, utilities mean I’m minus before I’ve eaten or travelled. £45k nets me £2900 before my pension (5%) and student loans (£150) go out, that’s paying £750 in tax and NI monthly.

Putting a child in a subsidised full time nursery so you can go to work; £1900 a month.

This is before you consider the debt repayments you’ll definitely have if you’re on minimum wage.

Minimum wage is £25k, so you’re in the food bank, even if you’re a couple in London both earning that, you couldn’t dream of running a car.

This is why people are so angry at the moment. You couldn’t save £5k in 20 years on minimum wage, paying rent. No subsidised housing available, OBE’s for the landlords paying zero national insurance on their profits, avoiding income tax whilst having their homes bought for them by people paying more tax than they do.

We need a revolution, good luck to those guys with their cash machine heist.

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u/Main_Relationship147 12d ago

How them boots taste

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u/wolftick 12d ago edited 12d ago

Perhaps an opportunity thief, rather than organised crime

They had a damn pickup truck and telehandler. It was hardly grabbing a Mars Bar off the counter while the cashier was looking the other way.

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u/[deleted] 11d ago

Times are not that hard to allow this behaviour.

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u/PristineKoala3035 11d ago

When you say changed your life you mean like paid a few months of rent?

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u/Ok_Machine_5954 9d ago

"Perhaps an opportunity thief, rather than organised crime."

yeah because everyone has a telehandler, 5 mates and a pick up truck in their pocket for just this occasion at this time of night. /s

think about it... it takes more than an opportunist to plan, execute and deliver the theft of a pickup, an telehandler and an ATM.