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Burglar Smashes Hole Through Wall To Steal Collectible Coins

1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 13,786 ✭✭✭✭✭
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A couple years old, but I just saw it :smile:

https://youtu.be/9d2w8D0MkwE

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  • FredWeinbergFredWeinberg Posts: 5,837 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Same thing occurred to a local coin store here in LA
    last month - broke thru a wall of the business next door,
    crawled around the coin shop and took about $20K worth
    of coins -

    Because they crawled on the floor, to not trigger the
    motion sensors, they didn't see, from behind the showcases,
    a lot of value in watches that were left in the showcase that
    night.

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  • Aspie_RoccoAspie_Rocco Posts: 3,259 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Something similar happened in Thousand Oaks a few years ago. I think recall the dealer saying the thieves got mostly crap and left most of any good stuff in the cases.

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  • planetsteveplanetsteve Posts: 1,425 ✭✭✭✭

    A retail company I’ve worked for had this happen. We were the easy way in: once they broke into our store through the front door, they smashed through a shared wall into the real target, a sporting goods store. It happened not once, but twice over a period of several months.

    I had nothing to do with that location, so I can’t answer any head-scratching questions. I just wonder how an interior wall can be beefed up or otherwise properly secured.

  • Aspie_RoccoAspie_Rocco Posts: 3,259 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 14, 2019 4:12PM

    @planetsteve said:
    A retail company I’ve worked for had this happen. We were the easy way in: once they broke into our store through the front door, they smashed through a shared wall into the real target, a sporting goods store. It happened not once, but twice over a period of several months.

    I had nothing to do with that location, so I can’t answer any head-scratching questions. I just wonder how an interior wall can be beefed up or otherwise properly secured.

    When building a hospital I saw they used thick steel mesh behind all drywall in the pharmaceutical area.
    One would need loud or hot equipment to cut through.

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  • koynekwestkoynekwest Posts: 10,048 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Same thing happened locally here in the Akron, OH area a dozen years ago. Fortunately, nearly everything was recovered.

  • Timbuk3Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭

    OMG !!! :'(

    Timbuk3
  • ldhairldhair Posts: 7,244 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Two quick stories.

    Bad guys bust thru a block wall to get in the gun room of a local store.
    When they looked in the hole, they had found the toilet.

    Bad guys back a wrecker thru a wall of a coin shop. They drive over the dealers desk and start chaining the safe to the wrecker. They take off running when the police show up. One of them took a round in the backside. That's justice. :)

    Larry

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A lot of 'dumb crook' stories... but they all cause damage, loss and pain...Penalties need to be greater, just not enough to deter these punks. Cheers, RickO

  • ashelandasheland Posts: 23,231 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Disgusting thieves! :rage:

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  • Downtown1974Downtown1974 Posts: 6,816 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Stooge said:
    Thieves make me sick!

    I agree. They are parasites that feed off of hard working people. Thieves rank right up there with pedophiles in my book.

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  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,364 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Crawling from one hole to the next. Some will never walk upright.

  • ReadyFireAimReadyFireAim Posts: 1,828 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 15, 2019 10:40AM

    Guy I know on a gun forum got a #3000 lb safe (class-B) pulled through the side of his house. (it was also bolted to the slab)
    Thieves used a dump truck and a logging chain that they threw thorough a window.

    Made off with 125K worth of vintage machine guns. (functional)
    Including a MG42 (Hitler's buzzsaw)

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  • pendragon1998pendragon1998 Posts: 2,070 ✭✭✭

    I have to wonder how those thieves knew about his safe.

  • yspsalesyspsales Posts: 2,396 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 15, 2019 11:49AM

    Two of my neighbors got hit after remodeling work had been done... about three months later.

    Lifetime worth of family jewels from a recently deceased sister. The other a small safe in broad daylight on a dollie.

    Years ago a friend was starting his career ot Bank of America. Said his bank vault at his small satellite bank did not have a roof. Anyone could go in thru the roof if I ever had the notion.

    Drive by that bank every day... thinking hmm.

    Wonder how many bank vaults dont have a roof?

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  • HemisphericalHemispherical Posts: 9,370 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A lot of the above sound like inside jobs or other people that just knew too much about the contents and locations of the valuable.

    Loose lips sinks... you know what I mean. 😶

  • 1630Boston1630Boston Posts: 13,786 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Hemispherical said:
    A lot of the above sound like inside jobs or other people that just knew too much about the contents and locations of the valuable.

    Loose lips sinks... you know what I mean. 😶

    @3keepSECRETif2rDEAD knows what you mean :smile:

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  • markelman1125markelman1125 Posts: 1,851 ✭✭✭✭✭

    This makes me sad 😢. Coin shops are hard to come by and burglary can damage coin shops severely. I know the negative impact of burglary because the the collectibles shop I volunteered for last year had a break in. The thieves ran off with $2000 in coins. This make me really sad. I hope someone finds those coins and the thief is apprehended. 😢😢😢

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