How expensive is tunnelling?

[GB]

That sounds like an awful lot of work and risk for not much return. :)

[Jethro_uk]

I thought the hoppers in ATMs were loaded with that blue dye which goes of if they're forced open ?

Although I have a vague memory that savvy crims freeze the boxes first ...

[Nightjar]

Presumably nobody thought it necessary to protect the underside.

Colin Bignell

[John Rumm]

Depends a bit on how big the gang is.... If its only a couple of people, then 40K each is not too bad a return, especially if they can pull it off a few times a year.

[Huge]

That was my first thought - they'd have been better off working for a living.

[Jethro_uk]

But they are criminals, by definition thick as pigshit.

Many years ago, I had a gf whose mum was a probation officer. She had all but given up on rehabilitation, as most crims think crime pays. She once sat a 19 yo offender down, who was doing 2 years for robbery, and worked out for him (because he couldn't count to 11 without taking a shoe off) that his crime had made him about 10p an hour, when you worked out how long he was serving for it - with the added indignity that he'd had the money (goods) taken away by the police anyway.

He still thought he'd made £500 in a day.

The only consolation, IME, is that the police we employ to catch said criminals are marginally less thick, so on balance we're fairly safe.

There's no such thing as a clever criminal. Except for the ones we never know about because they don't get caught.

[GB]

Do those machines typically have 80k in?

[GB]

The Mirror states they got away with £86k. That must be right, as it's in the noospaper.

[philipuk]

Did she include the cost of 2 years free board and lodge, tv, xbox, council tax, travel etc. etc. etc?

Philip

[Mike Barnes]

ROFL.

[Jethro_uk]

AIR she demonstrated that he would have had more money after 2 years if he had worked at McDonalds, than by thieving - even if he had to pay for those things.

20 years ago there were no Xboxes. And despite what the Daily Mail would have you believe, Feltham YOI was not a hotel.

[John Rumm]

It varies - if you pick one that is heavily used, and go for it shortly after a refill then quite possibly. Less well used ones might be loaded with £25K

[philipuk]

Meh, 90% of McDonalds employees are on zero hours contracts, so there is no guarantee of any money at all.

Philip

[harryagain]

I don't suppose they would be able to come up beneath. How could they measure it?

[Jethro_uk]

As I said, this was 20 years ago.

[Tim Watts]

Please snip when replying - it makes it so much easier to read :)

[Jethro_uk]

[Nightjar]

A tape measure, or even a piece of string, will give distance. A couple of sighting sticks, a laser pointer or, if they know surveying techniques, a plane table will give direction.

Colin Bignell

[Tim Watts]

brain vessel

;_>

[Nightjar]

The last one attacked this way only had £6,000, as it had not been refilled after the New Year bank holiday:

Colin Bignell