Friday, July 30, 2010
Crime ATM thefts in vogue in Atlanta
Posted by Gwynedd Stuart @gwynnstu on Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:28 AM
First it was blue jeans, then it was flat-screen TVs — now Atlanta's smash-and-grab burglars have their eyes on ATMs.
The CVS on N. Highland Ave. — my preferred retailer of Camel cigarettes and Peanut M&Ms — was in shit shape this morning after four men in two minivans crashed through the front windows to access an ATM in the lobby around 3 a.m.
They weren't able to make off with the ATM (in fact, nothing was stolen), but they sure made a mess. According to the AJC — and a kindly CVS cashier — police located one of the vans used in the crime, but all four burglars got away.
The CVS incident was one of two unsuccessful ATM thefts this morning. The other took place at a Chevron station on Cambellton Rd. Police don't think the two incidents are related.
Since July 19 — when thieves made off with an ATM from Broadway Diner on Peachtree St. — there have been a half-dozen attempted and successful ATM thefts in Atlanta.
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I'm just waiting for the "crime wave" talk to start. It will be interesting to see how the local elected officials respond and if it's different from how they responded last year during their campaigns.
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But it's not a crime wave, it's just a series of coincidental attempted robberies of the same object, at relatively similar hours of the early morning, in a city where these kinds of coincidences are just that, coincidences.
Crime wave? Not quite, but it seems worthy of note that there tend to be "trends" in theft in Atlanta, especially when it comes to smash-and-grab burglaries. I'm not sure I'd classify the blue jean bandit robberies — or the flat screen thefts, for that matter — as coincidences, per se.
Gotta love Atlanta "a city where you're never safe"...NYC anyday baby. Wish I had the cash for a pad...but that's it too cheap to leave here (ATL) too much rift raft...
I always loved the news stories about blue jean heists. There would be something like 300 pairs of jeans missing, valued at $150k.
You are retarded if you spend $500 on a pair of jeans made in the same sweatshop as $20 jeans (and probably worn out with holes in the $500 pair).
The ATM theft is much more intelligent. Cash is a lot easier to move than designer jeans or used televisions.
I went home to NY for a few weeks last month. I was shocked how bad the crime has gotten here. Robberies, home invasions, killings for no reasons. I thought I was reading the Atlanta paper for a minute. My parents who live in a decent neighborhood, we never had to lock the door while growing up. They have been advised by the police to start locking stuff up and locking the doors and windows at night.
Hey, they had an ATM theft in the movie Barbershop! (Spoiler alert: the ATM was new and hadn't been loaded with money yet, so the theft was for nothing.)
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