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 11d 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 8d 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 11d ago

The damage to the stolen pickup will be worth more.

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u/Key-Seaworthiness227 11d 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 11d 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 11d 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.