I completely forgot i hadn't told you guys yet!

Anyway, I get to work on Wednesday morning and there was police tape EVERYWHERE including a police woman standing next to an odd looking box right near where i usually park. The thing had obviously smashed into the garden bed because the concrete edging was all chipped and lying everywhere.

My first thought was someone tried to break into the bottle shop again, that place had been rammed before and had some of their alcohol stolen but since then the front of the shop had been turned into a veritable fortress. I'm talking several inches thick metal bars every few feet so cars couldn't ram their way inside again.

The shopping center i work in is open plan, the restaurants, hairdresser, bottle shop and a clothes store are all out at street level and then the store dips inwards with a sort of courtyard flanked by a bank, coffee shop, pharmacist and news agency with the shopfront of the grocery store taking up the back wall of the courtyard.  There are huge security gates that come down over the front of the courtyard at night so people can't get in, and in the center of all this is a pole holding up the floating ceiling flanked by four ATM's.

Turns out someone tried to steal one of the ATM's right outside the door of the grocery store i work in instead at 5am that morning. One of our bakery girls was in the parking lot getting ready for her shift and witnessed the entire thing. Four idiots in balaclavas rammed a stolen tow truck up over the bollards we use to keep people crashing into the stores, through the still locked security gates and into the four ATM's.

Two of the ATM's were hit by the truck and knocked over before two of the kids jumped out, winched one of the atms onto the truck and sped off.

Luckily, they were idiots, and didn't secure it properly at all. The ATM managed to fall off before they even made it out of the parking lot, hence the odd box the Police woman was guarding when I got into work. They also managed to crash the truck into a pole not 400m up the road, so they weren't able to try again that night.

Thing is though, it was ALREADY their third attempt that day. Two other locations were hit, but they didn't manage to get the ATM's in either of those occasions.

I'm not sure if they were caught or not, but i did have fun informing people why there was police tape blocking off most of the stores for about 9 hours.