For at least three years, I've been noting in German news stories the continue robbery efforts over bank ATM machines.
Typically, some robbery crew (they specialize in this episode) come up with a technique and approach a ATM machine late at night. In less then three minutes, they've set the machine to blow up....taking the 'loot' in the machine (typically not more than 100,000 Euro). The destruction to the machine 'totals' out the ATM (you can figure at least 50,000 Euro for the machine), and then the damage to the building will usually be a minimum of 100,000 Euro. Cops seem to never catch these guys, and it's a fairly safe way of making an income illegally.
This week, I noticed a new trend that got reported (page three type story).
Down in Steinwenden, Germany (just a short drive outside of Kaiserslautern), the same type crew came up to a train station (smaller structure), and blew up the ticket machine.
Damage to the machine? Totaled out....30,000 Euro. What they got out of the machine? Well....cops hint near 3,000 Euro.
Yep....all that effort, for a lousy 3,000 Euro, and it'll cost ten times that amount to replace the machine.
No hints at who did it....they simply disappeared into the landscape. Neighbors heard the explosion....looked over and simply saw a white van leave.
Every single village along a train railway.....has one of these ticket machines. If this becomes a trend? It's a heck of a cost problem for the Bahn folks, and you just shake your head because it's all leading to a fairly low amount of money.
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