Thieves steal ATMs not just in New Delhi but in the United States also

24/11/2014 - An ATM machine was stolen in New Delhi. A sweeper spotted the ransacked ATM of the Union Bank of India in West Delhi's Narela area. Along with the machine, the CCTV cameras installed inside the booth were also found missing, probably also stolen. It seems the ATM machine was unguarded and the thieves had broken the street lights before uprooting the cash dispenser.
This is not a new-age theft in New Delhi but it has happened in other parts of the world. The following incidents are from the United States.
11/6/2014 – a 40-year-old man of Tustin in Orange County had stolen as many as 40 ATM machines in the past year. His activities came to light in the course of an investigation into the theft of an ATM machine that was stolen from a Laguna Niguel business in February. The man has been arrested.
26/8/2014 – Fayetteville, Georgia – in a daring robbery of a Delta Credit Union ATM, a gang of thieves uprooted the 2000-pounds ATM and made away with it in a fork lift. The fork lift was also stolen from outside a Wendy's restaurant that was under renovation. The police have retrieved the surveillance video, mounted just above the ATM – it shows the forklift ramming into the 2,000 pound machine, the forklift uproots the ATM from its foundation and loads it into the back of a red pick-up truck.
Incidentally, theft of ATMs has become the rage today. Thieves have realized that instead of stealing credit cards and going on a shopping spree, it is better to steal the money dispenser itself – namely, the ATM.
Business Times of 7 October 2010 have described ATM theft as this recession’s hottest crime. It appears the crime has struck not only Texas with more than 100 instances of ATM robberies in 2010 but has struck San Diego where the figure was 28 and in Atlanta, as many as 35 machines have disappeared. Obviously, this a new era in crime has arrived.