Thieves cut open Udon ATM and make off with at least 2 million baht.

 

Image: Thai Rath

 

Thieves who raided an ATM in front of a school in Udon stole at least 2 million baht in 1,000 baht notes yesterday.

Police suspect the men involved are an old team recently released from prison.

They worked on the ATM with gas cutters late at night when everyone was asleep in the cool and rainy weather. Police think that the machine was hit between 2 and 3 am.

It was the Krung Thai ATM by the entrance to the Ban Leuam School.

Police and forensics found the back door forced and a 20 x 60cm cut made in the place where the money is kept. Two money trays were missing along with at least two million baht.

Police are studying all the CCTV outside the neighborhood shops to get a lead.

But they feel they know who to look for. The modus operandi of the thieves points to a team of at least two men known to police who were jailed for similar crimes and now released from prison.

Investigations continue.

 

Source: Thai Rath

 

 

 

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3 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

They worked on the ATM with gas cutters late at night

Obviously, the video has not been removed from YouTube !

no one saw it seems,or bothered to say anything.anyway  money gone robbers gone

Serves the banks right, if they're stupid enough to let a stand alone tin can

ATM machine that's is begging to be robbed and

to be vulnerable to any petty thieves with a can opener torch cutters

get in and still 2 million, I say good on them, the banks has deep pockets

they don't really care....

What a stupid ass place to put an ATM, right in the middle of nowhere in whoop whoop instead of next to shops...

be prepared for fees on internationl ATM withdraws to go up. money has to be repaid from somewhere.

Place a few cops outside a few Mum and Pops in the area and watch for Somchai buying cases of Lao Khao.

 

Case solved - Your Welcome RTP

I always thought an ATM was impenetrable even with oxy cytilene set or cutters ???

 

am i wrong 

I thought its very hard to open it

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There were some Yardi's in Brixton who done that some 20 years ago, but they used a JCB to grab the box and rip it out of the wall.

Very effective, never caught,

YA MAN

They were released too soon!

17 hours ago, Khon Kaen Dave said:

There were some Yardi's in Brixton who done that some 20 years ago, but they used a JCB to grab the box and rip it out of the wall.

Very effective, never caught,

YA MAN

so any ATM can be opened with an oxy cytilene set  ?

Daft place to have an atm, on a busy road. But how nobody saw anything I dunno, coz there are shops (albeit closed), houses, & ofc wtaf was security doing, as its on a school playing field?

On 10.6.2017 at 10:35 AM, steven100 said:

I always thought an ATM was impenetrable even with oxy cytilene set or cutters ???

 

am i wrong 

Seem like.

This picture from the Thairath report much looks like they used cutting torches.

 

In Germany the things are simply blown up by filling with gas and then ... boom! A regular headline.

Compared to that the above is a masterpiece

On 2017-6-10 at 9:18 AM, ezzra said:

Serves the banks right, if they're stupid enough to let a stand alone tin can

ATM machine that's is begging to be robbed and

to be vulnerable to any petty thieves with a can opener torch cutters

get in and still 2 million, I say good on them, the banks has deep pockets

they don't really care....

 

On 2017-6-10 at 9:32 AM, bbi1 said:

What a stupid ass place to put an ATM, right in the middle of nowhere in whoop whoop instead of next to shops...

Closest ATM to my place is 6 kms away, at the entrance to a factory 50 meters from the main road, I use it all the time. ( next one is 16 kms) I'm lucky some banks are stupid ......... obviously some people are the same.

8 hours ago, faraday said:

Daft place to have an atm, on a busy road. But how nobody saw anything I dunno, coz there are shops (albeit closed), houses, & ofc wtaf was security doing, as its on a school playing field?

The difference back home is that ATM's used to be made into the brick walls outside banks/ building society's. Here a lot of them are stand alone tin huts.Were there no camera's or were they 'out of order' But the siting of an ATM here, is any ones guess.

On 6/10/2017 at 10:35 AM, steven100 said:

I always thought an ATM was impenetrable even with oxy cytilene set or cutters ???

 

am i wrong 

The majority of ATM's in Thailand are UL Security rated, meaning they are made soley of plate steel. Most of the industry is moving away from UL and embracing EN-rated safes, which are made with steel plate filled with specialty concrete to prevent cutting attacks.