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LAST UPDATE | 16 Apr 2019
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David Hunter / Twitter / Twitter
POLICE IN NORTHERN Ireland have recovered an ATM which was stolen from Bushmills in north Antrim in the early hours of this morning.
The latest incident took place in Market Square in Bushmills with a digger again used to remove the cash machine from a wall.
Detective Chief Inspector Dunny McCubbin has said the ATM is now being examined as part of their investigation into the robbery and appealed for anyone with information to contact detectives in Coleraine.
Last week, the PSNI made an appeal for the public’s help in tracing those responsible for the spate of ATM thefts.
Detective chief inspector David Henderson said: ““Recent attacks on ATMs are impacting our communities on multiple levels. The livelihoods of our local businesses are being jeopardised by the thefts and they are forced to face the additional costs involved in repairing their premises.
The populations served by the ATMs, which are often rural, are being denied access to cash facilities. Farmers and construction firms are suffering the loss of expensive equipment and machinery, a loss from which some will struggle to recover.
A dedicated task force has been set up by the PSNI in relation to the thefts, with the figure of cash machines this year taken now in double figures. Gardaí are also investigating two such incidents, which took place in Castleblayney and Kingscourt.
“We need communities to help be our eyes and ears,” Henderson added.
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Hahahaha! Would they not just install trackers on them ? This is getting beyond a joke yet I do laugh when I see another one has been pulled out of a wall.
@Nehppo McG: Youve a strange sense of humour.
@Damo.f: A sense of humour you don’t understand. Thankfully most people do understand this simple sense of humour.
@Nehppo McG: Atms being ripped out of a building just dont do it for me i suppose.
@Damo.f: Now your approaching the same humour kid.
That wasn’t so hard was it ? Xx
@Nehppo McG: it’s simple alright
@Nehppo McG: I lol’d too
@Nehppo McG: I don’t understand it.
Holy moly they are really getting stuck into the ATM’s ATM. GPS trackers for goodness sake. Who ever they are they’ve some serious money recently. Must have stolen over a million by now.
@andyearley: max ATMS hold is 30k, that’s why they keep going back for more
@John O’Connor: that’s not true
@John O’Connor: I would have thought it’d be way more than that. I would have thought it’d be 60-80 and in banks would have a lot more. But I’m only guessing.
@John O’Connor: by the time they pay a slab of tax to the republicans…..
Somebody has to pay for the posters.
@John O’Connor: can hold up to 250k
@John O’Connor: Each caseete of the machine can hold about 100k and the machines usually have between two and four casettes. Fair enough, rural machines would not be carying anything near max quantities but you are naive or misinformed if you think they are there is a max of 30k per machine, particulary ones located in bank buildings at weekends!
We always called atms the hole in the wall
It’s sinister if the monies robbed is being used to fund the purchasing of guns & explosives & lets face it the Conservatives & DUP & their Brexit could not be more two fingered to the Irish People the Bloody Sunday charges brought against alphabetical solider the uneducated British motor cycle brigade on the streets of London
The Conservative Northern Ireland Minister & her foolishness comments I think a lot of republican nationalists are being wound up
The pot is boiling & let’s not forget Garda Commissioner Harris Who balaclava’d Gardai on evictions & drives around the Republic of Ireland with armed RUC/ PSNI colleagues with immunity
Can someone please put a stop to this messing around with the All Ireland Irish Society
They haven’t gone away yeno… Another day another atm..
Election time
@CrabaRev: typical innuendo without the slightest iota of evidence!!!!
@CrabaRev: In fairness he is probably right. The Loyalists got a massive boost of donations from illegal sources during the Brexit campaign. They used those funds posting stupid ads in the London Metro. They are now facing a new European election campaign that they never planned for. FFG can’t be seen given out of cycle grants for Tricolorour sacrificing bonfires, so where else can the poor votes get the money for a European election campaign they never envisaged fighting.
It’s high time time this activity was now recognised as a regional pasttime.
Might even have ‘tourist trail’ potential – ‘The holes of the holes in the walls of Ulster’ or somesuch!
Images of the PSNI running around to the “Benny Hill Show” theme tune.
@Cathal: put a background video of the PSNI looking for the Glennane gang (leaving no stone unturned) in the background. Dirty politics and policing in the North once again.
@Cal Mooney: so you think the PSNI are in some way allowing these robberies to happen??Take the blinkers off would you,not all crime up here and not all police behaviour can be linked back to some secret political agenda-there are criminals here just as there are in the south or in England etc.
@Adam O’Donoghue: So you think the DUP didn’t use money from Saudi Arabia to campaign in support of the Leave the EU campaign. Sounds ridiculous except Westminster are trying to find them for it. Look it up. Not hard to do it.
The banks and revenue want a cashless society. Everything can be traced.
@Frank Lloyd wright:
Ah, so it’s the banks fault, well done.
@Patrick Nolan: Even I agree with you on that one. But you have to admit that there can’t be many suspects. None lifted to date. Sound familiar (hint … they don’t want to lift these guys because they believe they are serving the Unionist greater good).
@John Kelly: brilliant!
@John Kelly: funny as always JK
At some point they’re going to have to start locking those diggers and making sure they’re less accessible to be robbed.
@Fergus: Chances are they are locked at night. But unlike cars which need a unique key for every car. Most diggers can be started using a standard key from the manufacturer.
@Damo.f: We have seen the videos of the machine operators plying their craft. Now, I am not Drew Harris of the former RUC, but I am pretty sure I could reduce the suspect list down to a few dozen if I really wanted to.
@Fergus: go to construction spares and you can buy a key for any machine for €5
@Michael Walsh: and you would have the expertise to take it from the wall and drop it perfectly through the roof of a waiting vehicle? You might get lucky once. But doing it iverbabdbover requires practice. Then add in that the police should arrive within 5 minutes … these guys knew they wouldn’t. Collusion written all over it. I demand our PSNI/Mi5 point if contact respond to this. To now, he seems very happy to not be considered a suspect as he was in the Phoenix park for most of these robberies.
@Cal Mooney: “I demand” You’re a delusional lunatic ranting on a comments section of a 2nd rate clickbait “news” site. Go make yourself a new tinfoil hat.
The link is from a different robbery but it shows how long it takes. The atm is gone and the digger is on fire 2 minutes and 20 seconds after it it is driven onto the forecourt.
This money is for re-armament – very scary
big yellow bank card..
PSNI becoming a laughing stock ….
…….oh wait they already were
@Punters Pal: How are they a laughing stock, or maybe you’d prefer the RUC back?
The PSNI /RUC are one and the same they just changed the name
@Edward Fitzgerald: No they’d not, it suits you and your ilk with your revisionism to bandy that theory about. You could have the Gardai up North and you’d still whinge and moan, never bloody happy!!
In fairness, those election posters are dear.
Somebody has to make a black comedic true story film about this.
Sounds more like local UDA taking advantage of situation .
This is the DUP taking there money from Theresa in installments. Either that or Gerry has lost his card
Has anyone considered doing a Google search for how to drive a digger,
Then run an IP track for locations????
@Eddie Mc Keown: any one can drive a digger when all you need to is to rip an atm out of the wall u tube videos are not needed
@Eddie Mc Keown: 4 levers , 2 for the tracks ,2 for the arm. No requirement for neatness when it’s demolition.
Eventually these criminals WILL get caught, just a matter of time lads
Money should be taken out of ATM’s at nightime…leave a little for smaller withdrawals…..then they won’t be worth robbing.
They way things are going, you’d almost think the banks and police were in favour of ATM robberies!
Don’t park diggers near Atm outlets
Shave a mádra
They should require that diggers are securely stored and and offence to allow to be robbed. Would nip this in the bud.
@thephantomshit: Digger are contracted out to sites and farms to carry out work, and are kept at that place until the contract is finished. A digger may be left in fields on a farm for drainage work to be carried out for weeks at a time. Do yo want the contractor to transport the digger home with him every evening and back again the next day.
Hi why can’t ATMs have a dye that can’t burst over the notes in the event of theft like these ones might stop unnecessary disruption of service/damage to property/loss of money
Rgds Colum Meleady
@Colum Meleady: open under water or leave in a freezer trailer overnight.
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