Malay Criminal Masterminds

[junkerman123]

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArt...TRIDST_0_OUKOE-UK-MALAYSIA-ROBBERY.XML

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian bank robbers have botched a second daring attempt to steal a cash machine when an excavator they used to carry out the heist got stuck.

Thieves toiled for almost an hour with a stolen excavator to dig two cash machines out of a bank branch in the northeastern town of Kuala Terengganu on Tuesday.

But they were forced to flee empty-handed when the excavator's digging arm got stuck in the ceiling of the bank, Malaysian newspapers reported on Wednesday.

A week ago, thieves in northwest Penang state used a rope to tie an automatic teller machine to a truck and haul it through a glass wall and down a flight of stairs -- only to discover they had grabbed a cheque-deposit machine by mistake.

In another recent case, thieves loaded a cash machine onto a truck but abandoned it when they discovered it had no cash.

Smart.

 

[LordMorpheus]

wasn't it barbershop where they steal an ATM by tying it to a truck and driving off, only on the first attempt they pulle the bumper of the truck off, and when they get it on the second attempt, they leave the bumper behind with a license plate attached?